Nevernight

For some random reason I thought this was a YA book but I loved Kristoff's Empire of Vampires so much I was willing to read it anyway. The very first sentence says “People often shit themselves when they die.” Rude awakening there buddy.
I love Fantasy stories involving a school or just training in general, like Harry Potter or The Emperor's Blades. And I definitely love it when it's an assassin story.
This story feels like it could be a spin-off for Arya Stark. A girl of nobility who's family is murdered, she vows to right the wrongs that have been done to her by being trained by assassins who kill for a blood thirsty God. She also has to deal with another student who would love nothing more than to kill her. That's literally Arya Stark...
Her main difference is that she has this power to control shadows and she has this sort of “shadow demon friend” who helps her.
One thing that I hated about this book was there was footnotes throughout the first half of the book that gives background information. Some of it is interesting but most of it was just unnecessary and ruined the pace of the book so I just quit reading them and it made no difference. If you can't flow the information into the book naturally then it's not needed to me.
The second half of the book is a thrill ride of awesomeness and I'm definitely certain that this series is going to be great and he just might be a top 10 author for me.