Wren and Hal, both barely having finished being children, were taught to survive in the vocabularies of violence and monstrousness, and they did not know any other language. “War makes monsters out of children,” writes Saft, they live shoulder to shoulder with it and thus grow immune to its atrocities.
This is a novel that probes at the nature of what it means to inherit a story of hatred and prejudice and be in perpetual service of it. Down Comes the Night thrives in its themes of heritage and war and power, and in the changing relationship between Wren and Hal, and the two far outshine the sparsely decorated setup and the anemic predictability of the storyline. This is, for the most part, a very successful debut. All they have is each other, and a startling desire that could be their downfall.Īllison Saft’s Down Comes the Night is a snow-drenched romantic fantasy that keeps you racing through the pages long into the night.ĭown Comes the Night has a very compelling premise: two enemies, standing on opposite sides of an unending war, find themselves miserably trapped with unknowable terrors (and with each other) inside an estate lurking deep in the dark fog-wreathed mountains, and like any trapped thing, they must scrape up answers and fight to the bitter end, together. But as Wren circles closer to the nefarious truth behind Hal’s illness, they realize they have no escape from the monsters within the mansion. With sinister forces at work, Wren and Hal realize they’ll have to join together if they have any hope of saving their kingdoms. Hal also came to Colwick Hall for redemption, but the secrets in the estate may lead to both of their deaths. Worse, Wren’s patient isn’t a servant at all but Hal Cavendish, the infamous Reaper of Vesria and her kingdom’s sworn enemy.
The mansion is crumbling, icy winds haunt the caved-in halls, and her eccentric host forbids her from leaving her room after dark.
So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord, asking Wren to come to his estate, Colwick Hall, to cure his servant from a mysterious illness, she seizes her chance to redeem herself. Wren Southerland’s reckless use of magic has cost her everything: she’s been dismissed from the Queen’s Guard and separated from her best friend-the girl she loves.
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