The Knight and the Moth, a review by Kristie

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The Knight and the Moth

Rachel Gillig

396 pages

May 20, 2025

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Blurb:

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.

My Take:

I absolutely loved this, more than I can even put into words. Enter into the Stonewater Kingdom, Bartholomew – I’ve got quite the story for you.

Six is one of the Diviners at the Cathedral where people come from near and far to have the Omens read for them. Each of the six Diviners take turns drowning in the spring to see what the Omens have in store. But when the new king and his knights come along, everything changes.

Rory is a bad knight. But Six can’t help but feel drawn to him. When she decides to search for her missing Diviners, she ends up with Rory and her gargoyle as companions. As they make their way through the lands in search of the others, Six quickly learns they’re looking for the Omens as well. But to what end? Her entire life becomes turned upside down before her very eyes.

Friends become foe, and the unknown becomes impossible to let go. While Six and Rory search for answers they find something in one another as well. This entire book was so artfully done, and so hauntingly beautiful.