Super cool concept, just really confusing execution.
This book is something I can't quite describe. It was marketed as The Great Gatsby but with magic, and that is far from right.
The Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong is a YA fantasy novel set in a world where magic is outlawed. But four magical girls have the power to change fates, and are constantly on the run because of it. As this Season’s Nightbirds, Matilde, Aesa, and Sayer spend their nights bestowing their unique brands of magic to well-paying clients. Once their Season is through, they're each meant to marry a Great House lord and become mothers to the next generation of Nightbirds before their powers fade away. But Matilde, Aesa, and Sayer have other plans. They know their lives as Nightbirds aren't just temporary, but a complete lie and yearn for something more.
When they discover that there are other girls like them and that their magic is more than they were ever told, they see the carefully crafted Nightbird system for what it is: a way to keep them in their place, first as daughters and then as wives. Now they must make a choice—to stay in their gilded cage or to remake the city that put them there in the first place.
Honestly, I really wanted to like this book. But it after all, it had a super cool concept, just really confusing execution.
The Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong is a YA fantasy novel set in a world where magic is outlawed. But four magical girls have the power to change fates, and are constantly on the run because of it. As this Season’s Nightbirds, Matilde, Aesa, and Sayer spend their nights bestowing their unique brands of magic to well-paying clients. Once their Season is through, they're each meant to marry a Great House lord and become mothers to the next generation of Nightbirds before their powers fade away. But Matilde, Aesa, and Sayer have other plans. They know their lives as Nightbirds aren't just temporary, but a complete lie and yearn for something more.
When they discover that there are other girls like them and that their magic is more than they were ever told, they see the carefully crafted Nightbird system for what it is: a way to keep them in their place, first as daughters and then as wives. Now they must make a choice—to stay in their gilded cage or to remake the city that put them there in the first place.
Honestly, I really wanted to like this book. But it after all, it had a super cool concept, just really confusing execution.