I have been anticipating this book since the moment I learned about it. I absolutely adored The Shepherd King duology and I recommend it to anyone who asks me for romantasy recommendations. I am so happy to report that The Knight and The Moth lived up to my (very very) high expectations.
The main characters, Sybil and Rory, are fantastic and the tension and chemistry between is exactly what I hoped for after reading the blurb about the book. While the romance plotline is a fun piece of this book, there is a much larger story being told. It’s the story of faith/religion being weilded as a tool of control. One line in particular really stuck out to me, “Faith requires a display, the greater the spectacle, the greater the illusion.” As Sybil’s eyes are opened to the truth behind what she has been told and believed her whole life, it changes her and how she interacts with the world around her. Watching Sybil awaken to the truth, find her voice, and reclaim her power was such a powerful journey. Her transformation is one of the most satisfying I’ve read in a while. I truly loved every minute of this story and I already can’t wait for what’s next.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.
Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral’s cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she’d rather avoid Rodrick’s dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
