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Our brutally honest review of The Knight and The Moth is in... 🗡️🦋 This highly anticipated novel by Rachel Gillig was a gothic, eerie fantasy with new magic and beloved tropes. In our review, we dissect the world building, Rachel's whimsical prose, the magic system, the plot, & the characters. (P.S. This episode contains spoilers!)

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📖 Books Mentioned:

The Knight and the Moth - Rachel Gillig

One Dark Window - Rachel Gillig

Two Twisted Crowns - Rachel Gillig

Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang

Prison Healer - Lynette Noni

✍️ The Knight and the Moth Synopsis:

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.

⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00:00 episode intro

00:02:05 our ratings of the knight & the moth

00:05:00 high level summary

00:06:35 writing style & world building

00:10:00 we got distracted by a moth lol

00:10:40 our initial reactions

00:13:20 did the world building deliver?

00:16:10 a fascinating magic system

00:19:50 did we predict any plot?

00:26:20 the quest plot line

00:27:40 six & rory’s dynamic

00:33:50 the carnival scene + six’s arms

00:36:55 the diviner disappearances

00:38:50 the omens and false gods

00:43:10 benji deep dive

00:47:20 training montage & knighting

00:49:50 WHERE IS THE YEARNING?!

00:53:50 the diviners & religion

00:56:15 the gargoyle is the best character

00:59:40 comparison to one dark window

01:02:35 rachel gillig’s author’s note

01:06:15 will we read the next book?

01:09:30 reacting to 1-5 goodreads reviews

01:21:00 outro