The Kindness Academy Series · #2

Daughter of Ruin

Mark Lawrence

8.5 / 10
2 expectations

'I never met a Mark Lawrence book that I didn't love' ROBIN HOBB

'An excellent writer' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

The viciously dark and epic sequel to Sunday Times bestseller, Daughter of Crows.

Mollandra Plight was born at the centre of an endless cycle of crime and punishment, guilt and revenge. She has lived as victim and victimiser, too strong to break, not strong enough to escape.

The Academy of Kindness was never the disease – it was a symptom. The sickness runs through individuals, generations, and nations. Mollandra has never sought a cure, such is the work of gods, not the dead.

She has crossed death’s river, seeking peace, ready to face judgement. But the monster that is her mother has pursued her even here and the fate of her youngest child still hangs in the balance. Perhaps Mollandra has already been judged as wicked and denied her rest. Certainly, she is not done fighting.

If anything can be saved, if anything can be salvaged, then it will require that she understand the lessons of her long life. Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing forgiven.

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March 25, 2027
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Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence writes with the kind of precision that feels almost dangerous—he has a way of drawing you into worlds where every word counts, every moment is filled with tension, and every choice carries weight. His stories, as intricate as they are brutal, weave together a raw exploration of human nature, often set against landscapes both bleak and beautiful. Readers step into his books not just to follow a plot, but to feel something profound shift inside them. Born in the UK, Lawrence's early life wasn’t shaped by fantasy novels or fairy-tale heroes. Instead, he grew up with a love for the real and the gritty, which led him to study…