The Knight and the Moth
by Rachel Gillig
more Fantasy & Romantasy →Gillig's follow-up to The Shepherd King duology leans into gothic, mist-soaked atmosphere: a Diviner whose prophetic dreams have run dry, paired with a heretical knight who doesn't believe in her gift. It's romantasy with a noticeably moodier, more melancholic register than the genre's usual tone.
why track this in moth
As a newer series opener building a dedicated following fast, this is a good one to start tracking from book one; Moth keeps your notes ready for whenever the sequel drops.
Book facts
- Genre
- Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Epic
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Published
- January 1, 2025
- Pages
- 400
- Reading time
- 7 hr 57 min · ~19 nights at 25 min/day in Moth
- ISBN
- 9780316582704
- Language
- en
Publisher's summary
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Prepare to meet your next obsession." -- Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy sensation, a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Leigh Bardugo. 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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