Death Sworn (Hardcover)

from JRlibrary

Ileni has been exiles from her people and forced to travel to the mountains where she will become the teacher of sorcery to a group of assassins. The last two teachers died suddenly and mysteriously while working with the assassins and everything points to them being murdered. She is determined t...

from stefferoo

After reading this book, I just had to look inside myself and wonder if I'm suffering from YA burnout. But now I've gone and painted a negative mood over this review, and that wasn't really my intention at all. It's just that Death Sworn was in fact a pretty good book - I liked it, I did -- but I...

from Pascale1812

Another impulse read, and well, it's left some very mixed feelings. On the one hand, the text is riveting. Ileni's struggles are very real; the danger she's steeped in, very poignant. Given a task that most see as amounting to a death sentence, she manages to blunder through, not generally eleg...

from jessica_reads

Ileni was at the top of her game when she had all her power as a sorceress. Unfortunately, her power is fading and with it her place in society, her family, her future, and the man she thought loved her no matter what. Now, to get rid of her, she's been sent to be the teacher to assassins in a di...

from WorldforReading

I've been a fan of Leah Cypess's writing since her 2009 release Mistwood, and picked up Death Sworn expecting interesting world building, intrigue, a subtle romance, and a hint of magic. On most of these points, Death Sworn did not disappoint. We follow Ileni, a sorceress who has had her life tor...