Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers - ESSENTIAL



LaFevers, Robin  Mortal Heart, 441 pgs.  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.  $17.99  Content: Language: PG-13 (12 swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13 (slit throats). 

Annith is one of the best trained girls at St. Mortain’s cathedral, so she is upset when she is passed over to go on any missions.  Annith finds out that the convent intends for her to be the next Seeress, which crushes Annith’s hopes because then she would never be able to leave the convent.  Annith finally decides that she needs to leave the convent on her own and try to help Lord Mortain anyway she can, but what she discovers on her journey in more than she could have ever imagined for herself.   

I love loved this trilogy.  It was a great ending to the series with all three characters from the different books coming together to try and make peace in their war-torn country.  The violence is the only hold up with a middle school audience, but overall it’s got everything a good book needs-strong heroine, historical setting, little bit of romance and a whole lot of adventure.   

MS-ADVISABLE, HS-ESSENTIAL.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.

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