"I can't reccommend it enough."-TM
"What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. On the day of her foretold death, however, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Csorwe leaves her home, her destiny, and her god to become the wizard's loyal sword-hand -- stealing, spying, and killing to help him reclaim his seat of power in the homeland from which he was exiled. But Csorwe and the wizard will soon learn – gods remember, and if you live long enough, all debts come due."
...and so begins the Serpent Gates! This series is truly delightful and won't leave me alone. It's got a cool sword girl raised in a death cult! who's in love with an extremely repressed magician girl! and her pseudo-dad is even (spoiler alert?) an evil wizard! Also there are snakes, and Talasseres! The only bad thing about this series is that there are only two (2) books in it when there should be five million.