A young girl with unusual abilities is sold off to a fighting operation and ultimately ends up in a convent for warrior nuns… Red Sister is the 6th book I’ve read by Mark Lawrence.  The first three books I read were the Broken Empire series (The Prince of Thorns).  Then I read the Red Queen’s War series (The Prince of Fools).  This is the first of a new series – The Ancestor.  It is also the first series that is set in a completely different world from the first six books.  Though the characters were completely different in the first two series, they were set in the same world and…

The passage: a novelJustin Cronin; Ballantine Books 2011WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder A government experiment with a virus that causes human mutation goes wrong.  A hundred years later, humanity survives only in isolated, defensive pockets holding back the “virals” and its last hope is a little girl who was the government’s final experiment.