Sister Assasin

Sister Assasin
Written by Kierstan White

Trusting your instincts, could break your heart.

About the Author
Kiersten White is the NY Times Best selling author of Paranormalcy.
She lives with her husband and two children by the ocean, after moving from the mountains.

The Story
Seventeen year old Sofia has always worked to look after her older sister Annie. After Annie became blind, Sofia promises her parents to always take care of and watch over her sister. But then a tragic accident causes the girls parents to die, and they are made to go and live with their aunt. Until one day they are invited to attend a new school in which Annie is promised to have her eyesight restored.
The girls have been at the school for a few years when Sofia starts to release that the school is "wrong".
One day Sofia is sent out to perform an assassination on a young man she has never met and knows nothing about, but she changes her mind at the last minute and completely loses focus on her task at hand. Instead she saves the boys life.  The story then starts to revolve around how Sofia was trained to assassinate, to trick and fool others around her. But other students in the school are tested to see if they have psychic abilities. Which Annie does. She is able to see into the future, whereas Sofia does not have an ability. Sofia must fight to save her sister, while Annie blindly tries to do the same.

7 years ago our parents died.

5 years ago we came to this prison.

4 years ago I found out the truth.

3 years ago she killed for the first time.

An hour ago we fought back.

Characterisation

Our story revolves around our two main characters Sofia and her sister Annie.

To start off, I was really impressed in this story how one of the main characters has a certain characteristic that doesn't make them useless to the reader. Annie is blind, and has been from a very young age. But this didn't stop Kiersten White from allowing Annie to be fully apart of the story. Sofia has worked hard over the years to make sure that Annie is kept safe and that nothing comes in between them. Especially when they are moved to the new Keane institute, which passes for a school, when in fact it is a institute in which young girls are tested for psychic abilities.

James Keane, the son of the owner of the Keane institute, works hard in his everyday life to make sure that Sofia is kept alive. Each chapter in the story is based at a different moment over the last 7 years, which allows us to follow what happens to the characters and explain what is going on in the present tense.

James is your typical young gentleman. Slim, sexy and always being chased after by girls. Sofia has liked James for a long time, but after James takes a small interest in Sofia, things turn around on Sofia.

At the start of our story, Sofia is sent out to kill a young man who we come to find is names Adam. Adam is a nineteen year old boy who is also described as, slim, sexy and has eyes to die for. Adam is a minor character, but most of the storyline revolves around how Sofia and him eventually come to bumping into each other again.

Plot Lines

Each chapter in the story takes turns in the girls point of view. Chapter one is from Sofia's point of view, and chapter two shall be from Annie's. And so on and so forth. I liked how this was done also for the fact the chapters are set at different points in time. For example, a chapter may be from Annies point of view from 5 years ago, the next chapter may then be told by Sofia in the present, and then the next might be Sofia again, but from 4 years ago. It allows us to engage in what has happened to the girls in the past and link it to the present at the same time. Whilst still following the story line and learning about the goings on.

My favourite plot line within the story is Sofia's fight scene in the present tense. After saving Adams life, she is met by three very tall and very dark coated men. Sensing danger she goes into panic mode and pushes forward to kick ass. It takes your through her emotions at the time, the way she felt about the situation, everything she did in that moment, what moves she made and how it also affected Adam too.

OVERALL

Story:  7/10

Characterisation: 6/10

Re-readable: Maybe

Recommendable: Yes

Overall I rate this book: 7½/10

Only a few small things annoyed me with the way this book was written. And that was firstly, the way the ending turned out. It got to the end and suddenly you didn't know what to do with yourself. Sofia decides she wants to fight back against the Keane institute, but that is it. Sofia may as well have walked off into the sunset because we shall never know what actually happens at the end. Does she fight? Does she walk away?

Another small thing that seemed to irritate me after a while is the way Sofia used to talk. On occasion, she would repeat a single word 3 times, and it would be the most random word to actually repeat. Out of the ordinary, it had no reason to be repeated in the first place.

Apart from those two bad points, I was very impressed with the book as a whole. 

I was reading about how the Author like to write about love scenes, action and paranormal stuff. She managed to work in the action, and a minimal amount of love scenes, which was good because you don't want too much love to ruin action, and she made it the perfect teen action novel.