In the first book of the Academy of Kindness  series , an elderly woman named Rue is pulled back into a dark world of violence when her friends are murdered. Her story unfolds through a series of flashbacks - from her origins in a home of darkness and fear to her time at the Academy of Kindness, where girls are sold into a life in which they must learn to kill or be killed, even by their fellow students. Over ten years at the Academy, out of 100 girls in each class, only three survive to be sent out into the world to hunt monsters. Because who best to catch the human monsters than other monsters? Welcome to Daughter of Crows  by Mark Lawrence.  Grimdark says, "CAW!" It’s a bit of a surprise that I haven’t previously reviewed anything by Mark Lawrence, because I devour everything he writes almost as soon as it hits shelves. He’s authored one of my favorite trilogies about libraries, explored what it would mean to be a nun in an order sworn to protect the world, and created...