Name: The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow #3)
Author: Alix E. Harrow
Number of Pages: 30 (Kindle)
Published: November 15 2022 by Amazon Original Stories
Genre: Fantasy, Short Story
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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The Six Deaths of the Saint is part of the short story collection Into Shadow.
I’ve read The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow and enjoyed both of them. They’re both pretty long books, so I was curious to read this much shorter story. I don’t usually read short stories for some reason but found this one really engrossing.
So much is packed into a mere 30 pages. Whole lives are lived, epic and blood-soaked battles are fought, with varying outcomes. Kingdoms rise, men become emperors, and more, and a woman becomes a fearsome warrior, hailed by many, feared by all, driven by the fierce urge to not be nothing.
There’s a cost to all this of course, and in the end a decision must be made as the question is asked… is it worth it? If the answer eventually turns out to be ‘no’, imagine the consequences. Add to this a love borne of something more genuine and tender, a complete contrast to the desire for greatness and power, and things become even more interesting.
Reading this was well worth the afternoon I spent with it. I loved the writing, the characters were well-developed and the story was engrossing to the point that I didn’t want it to end.
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I haven’t heard of this until now, but I think I need to read it. Harrow is such a good writer!
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She really is, and this one is so short it did take long to read at all.
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I have so many of these themed Amazon shorts to read from KU! I made a wishlist on Amazon to keep track of them!
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I should probably do the same. I want to read a few more from this collection, some of them sound like they should be good, and it will give me more new-to-me authors to try as well.
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I do *not* need more new-to-me authors! 🤣 But shorty lil novellas? Yes!
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Have you read any other good ones from the KU collections? It made a change for me to finish something in one sitting and I’d like to read more.
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I haven’t read any in a few years. I read the Mindy Kaling collection, Nothing Like I Imagined, and one series that was like I can’t believe it happened or something…This Can’t Be Happening collection.
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For something so short, it still sounds quite wonderful. I’ve seen this author’s books around quite often but never tried any. Thanks for sharing! 😀
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It had so much going on in such a small page count. I’ve read a couple of Harrow’s books and enjoyed them both and was glad I picked this up too even though I don’t often read short stories.
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It sounds like a lot to pack in such a short story, but it also sounds like the author did an amazing job with it! And now I am curious! I haven’t read the full lenght books by this author because they don’t really sound like my kind of books, but this short story sounds interesting and now I need to try it out!
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There really is a lot going on in such a short story that I managed to read it in one afternoon. Hope you enjoy it if you decide to try it.
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