“When a child is given to the Noi-Guin it is sacrificed to the dark. Some few may survive the training but the adult who then descends the fortress walls on a moonless stretch of night a decade and more later will be a different person. They will have been cut free of any allegiance to parent or sibling, pruned from the Ancestor’s tree. They will be Noi-Guin—instruments of death, beyond morality, beneath religion, dedicated only to the task they have been given.”
Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
The Second Book of the Ancestor, Grey Sister, can now be pre-ordered on Amazon US and UK. Pre-orders help authors and the publication of their upcoming books tremendously, please consider supporting Mark and the series by pre-ordering the second volume early on.
that thorn guy 
Sounds fantastic!
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Shame I can’t preorder the kindle version, as I surely would if I could.
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