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.
“Enjoy your time, monster of mischief,” he calls back to me. “I imagine it’ll soon run out.”
Alexandra Christo. The Night Hunt (Kindle Locations 238-239). Kindle Edition.
Monsters & Magic & Gods & War & Kisses. I am going to put that on a t-shirt Key and Peele style because I loved everything this book was. The Night Hunt was nothing short of mythically bloodthirsty and romantically unstoppable. I absolutely adored this story by Alexandra Christo.
We get a dual POV from Atia and Silas. Atia is a Nefas (a monster of fears and illusions) and is the last of her kind and Silas is a herald of souls. When Atia is cursed to lose her powers, she teams up with Silas, Tristan, and Cillian to regain her power and restore glory to the Nefas.
I adored following both Atia and Silas for very different reasons. Atia is all strength. Truly proud of who she is and will fight tooth and nail to regain everything she lost. Whilst Silas also wants to regain what he lost, he is gentle and almost calming yet at the same time fierce and unyielding. I loved watching these two collide and couldn’t have loved it more.
The twist at the end was such a fabulous one. I had suspicions but could not quite nail down what it was. I love it when you get a good gasp of surprise. Also, I definitely slightly swooned over the God of Death and think he absolutely needs his own book… just saying. If you’re into Gods and monsters with an adventurous journey and a side of romance, you definitely need to pick this one up!
Special thank you to Netgalley and Feiwel & Friends for an ARC of this story.
Jotted by Jena 