The Night & Its Moon

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So the girls decide they’re going to run away together before Millicent can come to take Amaris. They start gathering knowledge and supplies, but we don’t get to hear about any of them. Amaris gets her period, and it’s the worst period ever because none of the matrons bothered to teach these girls about their bodies, and now all of the girls think Amaris is dying. Anywho, Nox and Amaris are primed to run away, and an injured assassin with a gravelly voice shows up( I wonder who he could be!), ruining their plans to escape, so they have to delay. Nox confesses her love to Amaris, and Amaris, oblivious, is like, ‘yeah, same!’ To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. It is, simply put, not a good book. As others have said, it certainly COULD be, but it does not live up to the hype. The pacing is off, the prose is purple, and it’s riddled with easily avoidable grammar and spelling errors. But for a day or two, I remained hopeful about the rest of the series. Again: It COULD be good. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY WOULD YOU INCLUDE NOX GETTING WHIPPED?? and in the little timeskip after, referring to her 13 year old self as a "young woman"

I started just screaming at Amaris by this point because she was like, ‘UGH, IT’S NOT MY FAULT. I DID NOTHING WRONG; IT’S ALL THESE DARK FAE’S FAULT BECAUSE I AM BLAMELESS!!!!’ I want to fight her so badly. When the fae find out she’s a reever, and they’re all like, GASP, I TOO KNEW A REEVER, and she’s immediately like, ‘oh, was his hair red? Yeah, that’s Ash’s dad.’ I was about to give up on this bullshit for the third time. But I persevered. She throws a fit that Gadriel and Zaccai keep calling her a witch but then continues disrespecting them by calling them demons. Grammatical errors abound, although I think this edition has fewer than the original, which is…something.

Details e-book The Night and Its Moon (The Night and Its Moon, 1)

since people still want to delude themselves into believing that Ciri only having white hair is similar to the witcher lemme just point out everything that's similar to the witcher.

Very much love to having bi representation in fantasy, and also to dealing with trauma and coping. The world is seldom fair, and that felt reflected in a way that made my stomach drop repeatedly- but as felt throughout this debut, strength lies in the fact that “we can hope.” EDIT: The author went on to apologize in two TikTok’s, seeming kind’ve sincere in saying that Goodreads is for readers, and not authors or publishers. but then… she deleted them less than a day later? ok interesting……The entirety of this book is so convoluted and so wordy. Piper tries to adopt the same lofty high fantasy prose seen in works like Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis and instead comes off as incredibly pretentious and melodramatic. She writes sentences in four rephrased ways, like she doesn't trust the reader to interpret things the way she wants. I honestly think this book could've used a very, very hefty developmental edit and several more drafts before it should've ever been published. I also think Piper needs new sensitivity readers because they did her so dirty. Piper herself was gracious enough to send me an early access copy for review. I bear her no ill will, and any comments trying to spark tension will be deleted. Hi! My name is Patrisia. You may remember that I was here when all the controversy went down. So fun. (More about that in the comments.) In an attempt to mimic the long-winded prose of the high-fantasy genre, the prose is overwrought. It's an attempt to be descriptive or lyrical, but comes off as a beginner attempting to mimic the greats. This also causes scenes to be far too long, ruining any sense of immediacy in dynamic scenes. The pacing issues are not limited to individual scenes, but the entire narrative as well.