Daughter of Crows

Daughter of Crows

Author: Mark Lawrence Listening Length: 14h 30m

The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series. Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters. The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast ...

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Rue

Although mercenaries are paid to fight, they spend only a tiny fraction of their time actually fighting. The average life expectancy of a mercenary is lower than in most professions, but if they were to go into battle every day, few would be expected to last more than a week or two.

The great majority of a mercenary’s time is spent waiting.

Travelling comes a distant second. Fighting a very distant third.