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A review by pineapplefury
Nigh - Book 1 by Marie Bilodeau
4.0
I read all five instalments in this serialized book in one go, and so the following is a review for the story as a whole:
I quite liked Nigh! Definitely different from your usual fae stories in a lot of ways, and much darker than I was anticipating when I first picked up the book. Nigh follows Al, a mechanic, as she struggles to deal with the veil between the human and fae worlds falling.
The thing that stands out to me about this story, aside from the frequently vivd and lovely descriptions, is the unexpectedness of it. I was never quite sure where the story was going to go next, never certain where we were going to end up. This had a destabilizing effect that I think mostly worked - the characters, of course, were similarly destabilized throughout the story.
In the end, I was satisfied by both the journey and the resolution, and the way that the various threads were tied up, though I was definitely worried for a little bit there that I wouldn’t be! I could honestly have read much more of this - I’m fascinated by the combination of human/fae world, and would have loved to se a lot more of how that world functioned.
I quite liked Nigh! Definitely different from your usual fae stories in a lot of ways, and much darker than I was anticipating when I first picked up the book. Nigh follows Al, a mechanic, as she struggles to deal with the veil between the human and fae worlds falling.
The thing that stands out to me about this story, aside from the frequently vivd and lovely descriptions, is the unexpectedness of it. I was never quite sure where the story was going to go next, never certain where we were going to end up. This had a destabilizing effect that I think mostly worked - the characters, of course, were similarly destabilized throughout the story.
In the end, I was satisfied by both the journey and the resolution, and the way that the various threads were tied up, though I was definitely worried for a little bit there that I wouldn’t be! I could honestly have read much more of this - I’m fascinated by the combination of human/fae world, and would have loved to se a lot more of how that world functioned.