Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Release Date: June 28, 2022
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy / Epic
From the author of the Traitor's Kiss trilogy, a YA medieval fantasy thriller about an orphan girl with secret powers of perception who gets caught between a mysterious genius and a serial killer.
Rising above the city of Collis is the holy Sanctum. And watching over
its spires is Catrin, an orphan with unique skills—for she alone can
spot the building’s flaws in construction before they turn deadly.
But
when Catrin witnesses a murderer escaping the scene of his crime, she’s
pulled into the web of a dangerous man who will definitely strike
again. Assigned to capture the culprit is the mysterious, brilliant, and
enigmatic Simon, whose insights into the mind of a killer are
frighteningly accurate.
As the grisly crimes continue, Catrin
finds herself caught between murderer and detective while hiding her own
secret—a supernatural sight granted by the moon, destined to make her
an outcast, and the only thing that might save her and those she loves
from becoming the next victims.
Erin Beaty's Blood and Moonlight is a young adult themed medieval fantasy
thriller about an orphan girl named Catrin with secret powers of perception who gets
caught between a mysterious genius and a serial killer. Abandoned as a
baby by parents she's never known, raised by the Abbey of the Sisters of Light, Catrin has found her calling when she turned 12. Rising above the city of
Collis is the Holy Sanctum. And watching over its spires is a girl with unique skills—for she alone can spot the building’s
flaws in construction before they turn deadly.
Catrin is tasked with inspecting the scaffolding following a deadly accident and prefers to do her job at night with the aid of the moon when there are less people around. After she checks the Sanctum for the last time before she turns in, she hears something mysterious. First, a voice tells her she should go home. Second, it appears as though something stops her from falling to her death. But when Catrin witnesses a murderer escaping the scene of his crime, and finds the body of a familiar she recently saw at the Sanctum, she’s pulled into the web of a dangerous man who will definitely strike again.
Assigned to capture the culprit is the mysterious, brilliant, and enigmatic Simon, whose insights into the mind of a killer are frighteningly accurate. Since she found the body, Cat is asked to be interviewed and later joins the investigation with the venatre (Simon) and his cousins, Juliane and Lambert. As the grisly crimes continue and her mentor Magister Thomas is arrested for murder, Catrin finds herself caught between a serial killer and detective while hiding her own secret—a supernatural sight granted by the moon, destined to make her an outcast like all Selenae, and the only thing that might save her and those she loves from becoming the next victims, is to put herself in the line of fire.
When it becomes a game of cat and mouse, Cat must find out who she can trust and who is hiding beneath the city’s shadows. In this story, almost everyone could be a serial killer. The was actually pretty dark and disturbing when it came to the murders and the horror of what happens to the victims. She starts working with Simon to help solve these murders but has to hide her magic out of fear. The two of them start to form a bond but at the same time no one can be trusted. As things start to unravel and they get closer to the murderer she's forced to reveal her secrets.
The world is strongly rooted in the religions surrounding the Sun (the Sisters of Light and other followers of the omniscient power that created the sun) and the Moon (the Selenae who possess a magic that causes those who follow the sun to shun and fear them as heretics). The story is also a self-discovery for Cat after she learns about the people who were her father, and the family that she's never knew. I do honestly believe there is room for a sequel since Cat's journey isn't finished. Not after all that happens at the end of the story.
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