A review by ebonwilde
The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones

4.0

wildly evocative and beautiful. i have almost never been so emotional about a book/author/universe that's new to me—unless it's a reread of my old favorites, i usually forget everything the second i write the review. with this, i've been furious for the past six hours, and i'll probably be miserable thinking about this for the next six days. the plot, perhaps, isn't that special, but the characters settle in your heart from the minute they're introduced. i truly loved them all, and when [redacted] did what they did, it was like being physically shot. i'm surprised this is a standalone, since the ending felt somewhat unfinished, but there's two previous installments in this universe, so maybe there will be a fourth where we can get a glimpse of branwen. and that demon too, i suppose.

i think i loved this so much due to it having a similar atmosphere to many of my favorite ya books (the folk of air, a study in drowning, all of us villains even), but lloyd-jones's prose is stunning by itself as well. her other books are definitely moving up my tbr.

thank you to netgalley for the advanced copy.