Daughter of Crows

Daughter of Crows

Author: Mark Lawrence Listening Length: 14h 30m
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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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Eldest

In a dark corner of a dark room, soot-black hands found the ruin of a garden and understood the shape of a betrayal that had been too large to comprehend.

Eldest ran, and stopped only when her legs and lungs refused her. She stood propped against the wall of a house, gasping. She had expected to reach a city wall or fields before exhaustion trumped her fear, and yet the metropolis had kept on going, street after street, block after block.

She’d passed people and houses, men and women, children from rich to poor, though none quite as ragged as her. Several women had called at her to stop. One fat man had tried to block her path, grinning broadly. Another had shouted, “Thief!” But she had left them all behind.