Death Sworn

Reviewed by: Sally Holt - Raymond Village Library, Raymond, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 13, 2015

Review

Ileni, a sorceress is losing her magic and is banished to a school to teach assassins how to fight. This is exhausting as she is expected to be able to handle many hand on hand demonstrations throughout the day and must hide that she does not have the strength to do her job. Assassins are being murdered and Ileni is thrown into being the one that has to solve the murders. At the same time she falls in love.

The premise of the story is good and much of the setting is underground. The story did not seem to expand into other areas of interest. Lots of hand to hand combat. Though it is important for characters to have vulnerability I found that Ileni came across as rather weak.

Overall Book Score: good