The Night and Its Moon
The Night and Its Moon
Ratings3
Average rating3.2
An addictive fantasy romance from TikTok sensation Piper CJ, now newly revised and edited. Two orphans grow into powerful young women as they face countless threats to find their way back to each other. Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place -- while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane. With strange new alliances, untested powers, and a bond that neither time nor distance could possibly break, the fate of the realms lies in the hands of two orphans -- and the love they hold for each other.
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I enjoyed this book, but wish it had been edited more thoroughly. Typos and errors took me out of the story more often than I expect.
I found Nox's arc to be under-explored, and I want to know more about her! It left me feeling like her character was less fulsome or fleshed-out than Amaris's, making the last third of the book fly by without enough resolution for my preference. The pacing was definitely hard to follow at times.
I am looking forward to the next book, in the hopes that it gets better! I like this story overall despite some other criticisms that I had, especially related to the over-simplification and stereotypical descriptions of racialized characters + extensive descriptions of traumatic experiences.
Edit: I had no idea about this book being self-published, the actions of the author and former editor, or any of the online interest as I don't have tiktok. Though I want to see where the story goes, I'm not sure whether to pick up the next book at this point!