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A review by syllareads
Night Shine by Tessa Gratton
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I'm gonna have to buy this book, huh.
Night Shine by Tessa Gratton is a beautiful book pulsating with life and love and finding oneself and one's own name in a way I have seldom seen before. Everything about this book is queer, dripping with queerness, gushing with it (also have not seen this that often and I love it! more! give me more!). The monstrous sorceress (ma'am, I am right here), Nothing's journey of self-discovery, The Prince Who Is Also A Maiden.....I loved everything in this book from start to finish.
It reads just like a fairy tale, every cadence meant to be savored by a storyteller, every word well-placed. The bare bones of every fairy tale, except it is not just a knight saving his princess, and it is not just a hero slaying a monster. There is love, romantic and platonic and every color in between, messy and real and beautifully painful, self-acceptance and self-fulfillment, adventure... I could go on, and on, but all I can say is: read this book. You won't regret it.
Night Shine by Tessa Gratton is a beautiful book pulsating with life and love and finding oneself and one's own name in a way I have seldom seen before. Everything about this book is queer, dripping with queerness, gushing with it (also have not seen this that often and I love it! more! give me more!). The monstrous sorceress (ma'am, I am right here), Nothing's journey of self-discovery, The Prince Who Is Also A Maiden.....I loved everything in this book from start to finish.
It reads just like a fairy tale, every cadence meant to be savored by a storyteller, every word well-placed. The bare bones of every fairy tale, except it is not just a knight saving his princess, and it is not just a hero slaying a monster. There is love, romantic and platonic and every color in between, messy and real and beautifully painful, self-acceptance and self-fulfillment, adventure... I could go on, and on, but all I can say is: read this book. You won't regret it.
Content Warnings
Minor: Violence