Title: The Six Deaths of the SaintAuthor: Alix E. Harrow
Series: Into Shadow #3
First Published: November 15, 2022
Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
Pages: 30
Genre: Fantasy, Short Stories
Format: Ebook
Source: Kindle Unlimited
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Synopsis:
The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s greatest warrior in this short story of love and loyalty by New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow.
Always mindful of the debt she owes, the girl finds her worth as a weapon in the hand of the Prince. Her victories make him a king, then an emperor. The bards sing her name and her enemies fear it. But the war never ends and the cost keeps rising—how many times will she repeat her own story?
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Goodness gracious this story was powerful and I didn’t expect to get so much in such a small page count. The Six Deaths of the Saint is an ambitious high fantasy story compressed to a mere 30 pages that had outstanding plot, characters, drama, and romance, more so than many full-length novels that I’ve read. It reminded me what I love so much about short stories and the incredible skill it takes to write one this good, not a single word wasted.
The story feels so much longer than it actually is and is filled to the brim with gorgeous prose. This is one of the best fantasy short stories I’ve read in a long time. It was so breathtaking that I ended up re-reading it again just a few days after to my husband and daughter and it was just as fantastic the second time. Alix E. Harrow has shot up to the top of my list of authors to watch and read more from in the future.
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“You saw yourself as an unholy triptych, three into one, one into three: she the girl, you the Devil, and I the Saint. And you understood, finally, that there had never truly been a she or a you but only a terrible, lonely I.”
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About Alix E. Harrow
A former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is a NYT-bestselling and Hugo-award winning writer living in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids. She is the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and various short fiction.
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