Dinara Tengri

Title: Sword of Deaths Author: Christopher Mannino Year of publising: 2015 Publisher: Muse It Up Publishing Source: I received a copy of this book from Book Publicity Services in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my thoughts and feelings about the novel. Read my review of School of Deaths right here . Susan Sarnio made a choice, and will spend the rest of her life as the only female Death. Last year she was bullied and ostracized. Now, to her complete bewilderment, four Deaths vie for her affection. Yet, something is terribly wrong at the College of Deaths. When a ship carrying scythe metal is attacked, many blame the newly-freed Elementals, but Susan knows the Elementals are innocent. Shadows from the distant past come to light. Dragons circle the horizon, blood spills, and nothing is what it seems. Susan and her friends struggle to stop a war. They search for the fabled First Scythe, hoping to sway the balance, but who is the true enemy? I loved the firs...

Title: School of Deaths (The Scythe Wielder's Secret #1) Author: Christopher Mannino Year of publishing: 2014 Publisher: Muse it up Publishing I received this book from Book Publicity Services in exchange for an honest review. Thrust into a world of men, can a timid girl find bravery as the first female Death? Thirteen-year-old Suzie Sarnio always believed the Grim Reaper was a fairy tale image of a skeleton with a scythe. Now, forced to enter the College of Deaths, she finds herself training to bring souls from the Living World to the Hereafter. The task is demanding enough, but as the only female in the all-male College, she quickly becomes a target. Attacked by both classmates and strangers, Suzie is alone in a world where even her teachers want her to fail. Scythes hungry for souls, Deaths who subjugate a race of mysterious magicians, and echoes of an ancient war with Dragons. As her year progresses, Suzie suspects her presence isn't an accident. She uncovers a pl...

  Welcome to Thursday Quotables,  a weekly meme hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies . Every Thursday you can post a quote from a book that you're currently reading. It can be meaningful, funny, a real tearjerker or just something beautifully written. You decide. Click on the link above if you want to learn more. This week I'm reading School of Deaths , by Christopher Mannino. It's a YA fantasy novel about a girl who is trained to be a grim reaper at a College of Deaths. As if being a Death isn't hard enough, she also has to deal with being the only girl in a world that despises women. And , there are some mysteries to be solved about this world. "Suzie took the book and left the library. She couldn't deal with these mysteries by herself. She closed the bookcase behind her and walked through the empty house, toward the door.   A pair of green eyes watched her leave."