I think that I wasn’t sure about the characters. I’ve worked out there was nothing specific that I disliked. There was also the fact that I would be reading, and in the back of my mind I was thinking oh golly, I’ve been reading for hours, I should get some tea and then I realised I had only been reading for twenty minutes! It was like the opposite of losing time reading. I would then find it several days later and go ‘oh yeah, reading that’.

It wasn’t that I wasn’t enjoying it, it was that I forgot I was reading it – I would put the book down to make a cup of tea and promptly forget I had been reading. However, despite having everything I love about fantasy and magic in a book, I found that I wasn’t enjoying Nocturna. It’s got magic, magic going wrong, sassy knife wielding street-savvy women and an entire world where magic is normal and self doubt and honestly everything that I love about books in a book. It was a special blue edition with blue sprayed edges designed for the Fairyloot box. The book in the box was Nocturna, the first in Maya Motayne’s debut trilogy. And with Castallan’s fate in their hands, Alfie and Finn must race to vanquish what they have unleashed, even if it means facing the deepest darkness in their pasts. Riddled with grief, Alfie is obsessed with finding a way to bring his brother back, even if it means dabbling in forbidden magic.īut when Finn and Alfie’s fates collide, they accidentally unlock a terrible, ancient power-which, if not contained, will devour the world. But Alfie can’t help but feel that he will never live up to his brother’s legacy.

But when Finn gets caught by a powerful mobster, she’s forced into an impossible mission: steal a legendary treasure from Castallan’s royal palace or be stripped of her magic forever.Īfter the murder of his older brother, Prince Alfehr is first in line for the Castallan throne. To Finn Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the chin of anyone who crosses her…and a disguise she shrugs on as easily as others pull on cloaks.Īs a talented faceshifter, it’s been years since Finn has seen her own face, and that’s exactly how she likes it. The theme was Dark Magic, and the box had stuff from A Darker Shade of Magic, Six of Crows, and some other fandoms I love so I was very very excited! I now use the ADSOM book sleeve as a tablet case, and there’s a really cute cat tea strainer that I’m using as a decoration. Next up on the Backlog Busting list was Nocturna, the April fairyloot subscription box book.

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