Review: The Knight and The Moth

I have to start by saying that I really dislike the cover of this book. Something about it bugs my brain and if I had judged this book by I would have been missing out. I loved this book.

The book follows Sybil or Six as she goes by for most of the book as she reaches the end of her tenure as a diviner - a role where she dreams of omens. One day, the new young king and his knights arrive at the cathedral where Sybil and her fellow Diviners live - through this trip, Sybil meets Rodrick - a grumpy non believer knight who goes by Rory. Days later, Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to go missing one by one, leading Sybil to hunt down King Benedict and his knights for help.

Sybil goes down such an interesting path in this book. She finds out that everything she has known in her life is a lie and she essentially loses her religion. I liked her in general, and I really liked her growth and her strength. I also really liked Rory and the banter between him and Sybil. They were everything that I love about slow burn romances. I also really enjoyed the writing style and the imagery that Rachel Gillig created - I am definitely going to have to look up more of her work. 

I spent the last 25% knowing something bad had to happen - things were honestly going too well for the characters and I knew there was no way that the characters were going to make it out unscathed but I did not at all anticipate what happened. My jaw actually dropped as I read the final pages. I am looking forward to the next book in the series and can't wait for more of Sybil and Rory.

I will finish this by saying that I dislike the cover even more after reading the book - the image they went with does not fit Sybil at all.

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.

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