"She never chose her deadly gift but now she’s forced to use it. How far would you go to protect the only family you have left?Annie is beset by fleeting strange visions and a guilty conscience. Blind and orphaned, she struggles to care for her feisty younger sister Fia, but things look up when both sisters are offered a place at Keane's School for Exceptional Girls.
Born with flawless intuition, Fia immediately knows that something’s wrong, but bites her tongue… until it’s too late. For Fia is the perfect weapon to carry out criminal plans and there are those at Kessler who will do anything to ensure her co-operation.
With Annie trapped in Kessler’s sinister clutches, instincts keep Fia from killing an innocent guy and everything unravels. Is manipulative James the key to the sisters’ freedom or an even darker prison? And how can Fia atone for the blood on her hands?"
Enjoyed the concept, but had a really hard time with the writing and how it was delivered. Sister Assassin is told in both Annie and Fia's pov and we are connected to both the past and the present, but it didn't work in it's favour since it felt scattered and erratic. String of repetitive words and the tap-tap-tapping was also very distracting and frustrating. The characters, Annie and Fia felt, at times, like they had the same voice and inner-dialog and were hard to distinguish one from the other.
I also just couldn't understand the characters motivation. Supposedly Fia's been a killer before, it doesn't matter because as soon as we meet her, the first paragraph of the book tells us that she is a moron who can't kill anything if it has big, soulful eyes.
Fia has to kill this boy. There are people holding her beloved sister, Annie, hostage. If she doesn't kill this guy whom she's never met before, they're gonna probably kill or hurt her sister (who's blind, and by implication, pretty helpless).
So what does Fia do? She doesn't kill the guy. Because he helped a puppy.
He's setting the little puppy free from where its leash got tangled, and by doing so Fia, can't bring it in her cold steel assassin heart to kill him. He's ruined her plans because he helped a puppy. Need I remind you of what's going to happen if she doesn't kill him? Her sister is going to get killed by the organization holding her hostage.
The love between sisters in this book is all telling and no showing. Oh, we know that Fia really loves her sister because she says so all the time. Except for the fact that practically every time she sees Annie, Fia's resenting her for getting her stuck in this situation in the first place. We know that Fia really loves Annie because she thinks that Annie's betraying her without giving her a chance to explain. We know that Annie and Fia love each other because they never. ever. communicate. with each other. Sharing emotions. Sharing your troubles. Sharing your stories. Leaning on each other for support? I just wanted the sister to show some genuine love for one another.
Surprisingly little romance, despite the insta-love. The book doesn't tie anything together. There are roughly 93889758934329 loose ends, and the romance is but one of them. There attempts to be a love triangle, and it's just completely laughable because it's so completely pointless. The only person I liked in the book is the sadistic love interest, James. He was the only one with any sort of depth to his personality.
Age Rating 13+. There was just no point to this book. Nothing ever got resolved.
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