I’ve been seeing this author’s videos on TikTok quite a lot lately, so I was excited to get a hold of this one, along with a few other indie books I’ve seen on the site. I thought the cover was beautiful and as I was having my own book cover designed around the time I read this, I remember hoping mine would be half as lovely. (And I wasn’t disappointed in that regard. You may have seen my previous posts, including my cover reveal, and I hope you agree.) Anyway, this book excited me. It was one of the first YA indie books I read, and I really enjoyed it. I started reading it on a long train journey, and found myself hooked in my the MC’s desperation from the beginning. Faythe, a young orphaned maid working in a bar, with a talent for swordplay, lives in the impoverished outer town of a kingdom where fae outrank humans, and always keeps her head down around the fae guards. She spends time with her best friend Jakon, determined to find them both a better life.
But when she meets a royal guard called Nik, she discovers she has some abilities of her own that she could never have expected. Nik is a Nightwalker, an assassin who walks through human minds while they are sleeping, and Faythe might just be the same.
I was hooked in the beginning, but honestly I struggled with it a little through the middle. I found it quite slow to get into. But I’d definitely recommend it! I’m not the fastest of readers most of the time anyway.
April Grace 