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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Plot driven book about REAL faeries. Atmosphere and world building is creative and grotesque.
Reminded me of a mix of Mexican Gothic, Jane Eyre, and Rachel Gillig’s novels.
I’m excited for the next book.
Reminded me of a mix of Mexican Gothic, Jane Eyre, and Rachel Gillig’s novels.
I’m excited for the next book.
This is a book for people who know that “real” faeries, while often beautiful, are almost always sly, calculating, and unknowable. If you combined The Cruel Prince, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Crimson Peak, you might get House of Blight.
The Evers, faeries straight out of folklore in all but name, are the distant ruling class in a world where a sickness called blight (a core deep rotting and decaying from the inside out) is a threat to not only humans, but the otherwise nearly immortal Evers. The only exception to this rule are threadmenders, humans with the ability to utilize healing magic, although the use of the power comes at the cost of their own longevity. It is also the only injury or illness, they are unable to heal using their magic.
Enter FMC Edira, a threadmender who has hidden her abilities her entire life. The only thing in the world she cares for is keeping her younger brothers alive and well. When they are both struck down by the blight, her only option is to accept a bargain from the head of the nearest family of Evers. He will hold them in stasis while she learns and trains how to heal blight and agrees to heal their ailing matriarch.
But as always when dealing with the fair folk, there is more to the situation than meets the eye and more than she realizes at stake. At its core, House of Blight is a gothic family drama.
You will and should question the motives of everyone you meet, and a pretty presentation may be concealing ugliness underneath. Breadcrumbs leading to as much of the truth as we know by the end of the novel are cleverly laid, however you are left guessing as to true motivations until the very end.
Definitely a should read for anyone interested in:
-faeries
-family secrets
-gothic settings
-love triangle
-feminine rage
-multi-layered characters
-a unique magic system
An excellent read that will keep you off kilter and guessing into the eleventh hour. I can’t say that I’ve read anything quite like this before, and wasn’t sure how to rate it until the very end. It defied categorization or true understanding for the longest, but ultimately I think that is one of the reasons why I liked it so much.
Thanks to NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
The Evers, faeries straight out of folklore in all but name, are the distant ruling class in a world where a sickness called blight (a core deep rotting and decaying from the inside out) is a threat to not only humans, but the otherwise nearly immortal Evers. The only exception to this rule are threadmenders, humans with the ability to utilize healing magic, although the use of the power comes at the cost of their own longevity. It is also the only injury or illness, they are unable to heal using their magic.
Enter FMC Edira, a threadmender who has hidden her abilities her entire life. The only thing in the world she cares for is keeping her younger brothers alive and well. When they are both struck down by the blight, her only option is to accept a bargain from the head of the nearest family of Evers. He will hold them in stasis while she learns and trains how to heal blight and agrees to heal their ailing matriarch.
But as always when dealing with the fair folk, there is more to the situation than meets the eye and more than she realizes at stake. At its core, House of Blight is a gothic family drama.
You will and should question the motives of everyone you meet, and a pretty presentation may be concealing ugliness underneath. Breadcrumbs leading to as much of the truth as we know by the end of the novel are cleverly laid, however you are left guessing as to true motivations until the very end.
Definitely a should read for anyone interested in:
-faeries
-family secrets
-gothic settings
-love triangle
-feminine rage
-multi-layered characters
-a unique magic system
An excellent read that will keep you off kilter and guessing into the eleventh hour. I can’t say that I’ve read anything quite like this before, and wasn’t sure how to rate it until the very end. It defied categorization or true understanding for the longest, but ultimately I think that is one of the reasons why I liked it so much.
Thanks to NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I wish I DNF’d this
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
inspiring
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
I initially tried to read this in March and really didn’t enjoy myself for whatever reason, I ended up getting the audiobook from Libro.fm and decided to give it another shot and I’m SO thankful I did!
I found the premise to be extremely intriguing, almost like Fullmetal Alchemist in the sense that there is an equal exchange that must happen with the FMC’s (Edira) healing magic. The only thing she can’t mend is the Blight, which is a super nasty disease that rots a person from the inside out. Her brothers get the disease and she ends up in a pact with an Ever (fae) to research the Blight and hopefully find a cure while her brothers are in a magical stasis.
I enjoyed the gothic world, everything had an eerie and unreal atmosphere about it. Like the Blight, there was rot lurking under the surface of everything. I do think some of the twists were obvious, but I was hit with a couple that did surprise me. This book had me questioning myself often which I really liked.
The pacing could have been better and some of the character work needed to be a bit strengthened but overall I did have a great time and really enjoyed the narration. I’m excited for the sequel, whenever that may be and I’m really glad I picked this up again!
I found the premise to be extremely intriguing, almost like Fullmetal Alchemist in the sense that there is an equal exchange that must happen with the FMC’s (Edira) healing magic. The only thing she can’t mend is the Blight, which is a super nasty disease that rots a person from the inside out. Her brothers get the disease and she ends up in a pact with an Ever (fae) to research the Blight and hopefully find a cure while her brothers are in a magical stasis.
I enjoyed the gothic world, everything had an eerie and unreal atmosphere about it. Like the Blight, there was rot lurking under the surface of everything. I do think some of the twists were obvious, but I was hit with a couple that did surprise me. This book had me questioning myself often which I really liked.
The pacing could have been better and some of the character work needed to be a bit strengthened but overall I did have a great time and really enjoyed the narration. I’m excited for the sequel, whenever that may be and I’m really glad I picked this up again!
This started off with the most intriguing prologue, I was captivated in an instant and the ending is fantastically set up for book 2.
Edira is a threadmender who can heal people in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately every time she heals someone she gives up a piece of her own life. This has forced Edira to disguise herself so the people in her town and the Evers can’t see who she really is.
The only thing a threadmender cannot heal is Blight. So when both her brothers are suddenly stricken with the disease, Edira doesn’t know what she can do to possibly save them. Enter Orin, an Ever and the head of the Fernglove family. Turns out Evers can get blight too and he is in need of a new threadmender. He strikes a bargain with Edira that would keep her brothers alive while she finds a way to cure blight. Despite how much she despises all Evers, Edira is left with no choice to accept if she wants to save her brothers.
House of Blight was such a great read! The way Maxym paints the gothic vibes is both unique and eerie. A perfect atmosphere for both lovers of gothic fantasy and those looking to test the waters. This book is filled with feminine rage, something that I will never stop loving about a book. The romance was slow-burn and not at the forefront, so I am hoping for more in the next book. I highly recommend to anyone looking to start a new fantasy duology.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced