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Content Warnings: blood, death/dying, fear, stabbing
From Alexandra Christo, the author of To Kill a Kingdom, comes The Night Hunt, a dark fantasy romance about a monstrous girl who feeds on fear and the gods-cursed boy who falls in love with her.
Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. As the last of her kind, she hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the unpredictable Gods. Silas is a Herald, carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can’t remember. Stripped of his true name, he yearns to recover his identity.
Atia would never dream of allying with someone like him, but when she breaks a sacred law and the gods send monsters to hunt her, Silas offers an irresistible deal: he’ll help avenge her family and take on the gods who now hunt her, if she helps him break his curse and restore his humanity. All they need to do is kill three powerful creatures: a vampire, a banshee, and one of the very gods who destroyed both their lives. Only together can they finally rewrite their destinies.
This was such a wonderful, unique story. Even the familiar monsters had a touch of the unfamiliar about them that made them entirely unique to this story.
Atia quickly became a favorite heroine, willing to risk exposure for those she cares about (even if she refuses to admit she cares about them). She lets no one tell her who she should be or what she has the right to do. I am also a little obsessed with her kind—the Nefas—and I have already made the decision to cosplay as her at the next Ren Faire I go to.
Silas is such a treat. So blasé from the start with his immaculate appearance and discontented existence. He is the Belle of the story, he wants so much more than the Gods have planned. Solving the puzzle of his past is captivating. My ebook is full of theories—some of which were actually proven!
Their enemies-to-lovers romance was all the things we love—a tentative alliance for their respective goods that slowly merges together into the good of them.
Alexandra Christo writes such female positive heroines that don’t need the man to save them, but it’s sure nice to have backup.
And let’s not forget how gorgeous the cover is!
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