When a Moth Loved a Bee | Pepper Winters | Book Review
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A pack of wolves hunt a girl who takes her last breath by a river’s edge.
She is found and nursed back to health by the kind-hearted Nhil people.
She has no memory.
No past.
And is given a choice that could change her forgotten life forever.
A pack of wolves adopt a man who begs for death in the grasslands.
Blood revives him. Flesh strengthens him. All while the alpha watches him as if he knows who he is.
He has no memory.
No past.
And yet…he’s drawn toward the smoke of a faraway clan.
And in that smoke, he finds a girl with the same mark on her thigh, the same empty mind, and the same forgotten language on her lips.
He’s convinced they know each other.
She’s certain they are strangers.
But the more time they spend together, the more tangled the truth becomes.
Their forgetfulness was deliberate.
To keep them apart.
To keep them lost.
To keep them from claiming their true power.
Because in that power exists a terrible choice.
A choice that could destroy the world…
…or each other.
Rating - 3 /5 ★★★
My Review
A girl who was being chased by a pack of wolves and was about to die was rescued by the Nhil people. A nameless girl with a blank mind and no memories of her past, know only the language of the Nhil people—who offer her a house to live with them. After being rescued by a group of wolves, a man intends to die without remembrance of his past or a name. He is driven to the distant smoke, where he meets a beautiful girl who is uncannily similar to him—an empty mind, no recollection of the past, the same mark on the thing—and who speaks an unknown foreign language to him. Yet when they touch, both their mark burn like a warning; every creature and element warns them to stay away, but they only see glimpses of their past when they are together.
Fantastic writing! Pepper's writing is brilliant and engaging from the first line. I'd heard a lot about Winters' work but had never read it. With its little nuances and new world, the beginning of this novel is quite intriguing. The girl's and man's pains appear to be related, and the emotions of loneliness, love, and agony intersect in the beginning and middle.
Slow detail is excellent in fantasy to immerse you in the world, but this book becomes painfully slow after a while and harder to read, with some events and pieces of information repeating themselves. The constant focus on the small details became tiresome after a while, and I only wished for the story to move forward. I grew uninterested and bored. Too much information was flung at me without explanation, and the plot was riddled with gaps and ended on a predictable cliffhanger.
It's not for my high-fantasy romance; far from it. I went into this book with an open mind and no real expectations, but still, I feel disappointed. It has a brilliant idea and excellent writing, but the implementation falls short.
Buy and Read this book!
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