Title: The Knight and the Moth
Author: Rachel Gillig
Series: The Stonewater Kingdom #1
Rating Out of 5: 5 (I will read this again and again and again)
My Bookshelves: Gothic, Magic, Romantasy
Pace: Fast
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2025
Holy crap. Nothing about this story went like I anticipated. I thought it was going to be yet another somewhat predictable young adult novel with a bit of a spin to it. Which, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love. I also didn’t think that it was going to end quite, well, like this. Once I realised how wrong I was about the predictability of the story, I could definitely feel something building and brewing in the story line. And I kind of figured that there was going to be something BIG at the end of the story… but I seriously did not anticipate this ending. I both loved, and kind of hated the fact. Loved it because it was brilliant. Hated it because, well, the second book isn’t quite out yet.
I must admit, at first I was kind of a bit “eh” about this book. I mean, it was good, but it wasn’t, holy crap, I can’t put it down kind of good. To start with, and then Gillig really hit her stride. From that point on, I was completely gone. I honestly couldn’t put this down, and even the small bits that I kind of guessed were coming, tended to hit me from left field. The world building was brilliant, the writing was brilliant, and I completely fell in love with the characters. And had my heart shattered alongside of them.
It was kind of obvious that some of the other Diviners were being set up to not survive the horrors of this story. But, the loss of them was still a physical blow. I read a lot of stories with sadness in them, but this one hit particularly hard. I really enjoyed that, as horrible and difficult as it was. Plus, even with that understanding and the bittersweet texture to the whole story, nothing was quite as it seems, and everything hit as a pretty major surprise.
Like everything about The Knight and the Moth, Rory was kind of a surprise as a love interest. There was something that didn’t necessarily sit perfectly with him from the beginning. But, as his own story unfolded and the layers were peeled back, he was kind of perfect. I also love how, in unravelling Rory’s story, you got to find out more about the horrors and tragedies of this world. And hope like heck that they are all going to be on the way to fixing them in The Kanve and the Moon.
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