thenightowlnook 's review for:

House of Blight by Maxym M. Martineau

4.5

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Thank you @harpervoyagerus @maxymmckay for my free copy and @harperaudio @netgalley for the alc💖.

🗓️Out 4/8/25

✨What it is about:

Edira is a threadmender with the power to heal,but it comes at a personal cost. When her brothers fall ill, she’s drawn into the mysterious Fernglove family’s world, where she works with the head of the family, Orin to find a cure. But as secrets unravel and her attraction to Orin grows, Edira must decide who to trust and what she’s willing to sacrifice to save her loved ones.✨

💭My thoughts:

This is the first in book in The Threadmender Chronicles & was unique,magical,eerie,and fun.It starts slow,but quickly picks up. Nothing is what it seems,and you’ll never guess what’ll happen next.The world building is done well,and the magic system is easy to understand.The vivid details of the story will make you feel like you are right there next to the characters! Edira is forced to navigate the personal sacrifice that comes with her abilities,and faces many decisions while in the middle of a group whose intensions are unknown.Her magical powers to heal come at the cost of her own life threads,so she never really knows when a healing will end her life.It was all so intense!The romance takes you by surprise in more ways than one too. It doesn’t end in an exact cliffhanger, but you get an idea of what to expect in the next story.

🎧The narrators Alexandra Hunter and Stephen Dexter did a great job letting us in the internal struggles of the characters. I hope Stephen gets to narrate the next book too,and we get more directly from his point of view because one chapter wasn’t enough! His narration felt so real,and true to Rorik’s passionate nature 💖.

4.5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Read if you like:

🪲Gothic romantasy

🥀Female Rage

🪲Forced Proximity

🥀Slow burn romance

🪲Magic

🥀Complex family dynamics 

🪲Immortal beings

🥀Atmospheric reads

🪲Spring court but darker

🥀Hate to love

⚠️CW: Violence, injury detail, body horror, death, sexual content, grief.