The premise of this book, as summed up in the title, is the ultimate quandary: Pyrre has to kill seven people, including her one true love, in order to pass her final Trial to become a priestess of the death-god Ananshael, or else she must die. The problem is, she has to fall in love first. As a priestess of Ananshael, death comes easily to Pyrre and her fellow priest-assassins. She sees the beauty in it, and after all, everyone must die someday. She does not […]