The Maiden and Her Monster A dark and enchanting fantasy tale rooted in myth
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Dark Romance + weitere
Altersempfehlung
ab 18 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
11.09.2025
Verlag
Pan MacmillanSeitenzahl
448 (Printausgabe)
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2140 KB
Sprache
Englisch
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9781035048793
'A dark, atmospheric and riveting debut, wreathed around a love story like no other' - Samantha Shannon, author of the million-copy bestseller The Priory of the Orange Tree
✨ Rooted in fairy tales, folklore, and sapphic romance, The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez is perfect for readers of Katherine Arden, Ava Reid and Naomi Novik. ✨
As the healer's daughter, Malka has seen how the forest's curse has plagued her village. But when the Ozmini Church comes to collect its tithe, they don't listen to the warnings about a monster lurking in the trees. After a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka's mother is accused of her murder, Malka strikes an impossible bargain with a zealot Ozmini priest: if she brings him the monster, he will spare her mother from execution.
Venturing into the blood-soaked woods, Malka finds a monster, albeit not the one she expects: an inscrutable, disgraced golem who agrees to implicate herself if Malka will help to free the imprisoned rabbi who created her.
But a deal easily made is not easily kept. And as their bargain begins to unveil a much more sinister threat, protecting her people may force Malka to endanger the one person she left home to save - and to face her growing feelings for the very creature she was taught to fear.
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'A dark and endlessly enchanting fairy tale' - Ava Reid, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning
'A gorgeous dark fantasy rendered in detail sharp as a tailor's needle' - S. T. Gibson, No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A Dowry of Blood
'A dark, poignant fairy tale about resilience, faith, and redemption' - Allison Saft, the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Dark and Drowning Tide
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"The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark." Yes, but only for the first third of the book
The folklore aspects were really beautiful and fascinating, and the religious struggles were full of anguish and did not shy away from showing the dark side of a corrupt system, which only heightened upon reading the author's note and seeing all the historic influences. But oh my, was the plot all over the place! It goes from a murder mystery to a political heist and finally adds a very sudden romance, for which I just couldn't care less. Where was the yearning? Where was the subtlety? The desperation? The characters' emotions were barely noticeable on the page, which really baffled me, because the writing style was so lush and poetic! The main character, Malka, is naive, very stuck in her thinking, and sometimes just outright cruel to the golem, so it felt a bit jarring to turn the page and suddenly see them both supposedly in love with each other. Every new realization was told through stories and folklore, which made the pacing feel slow and heavy-handed. I think a bit more editing and slightly different marketing would have helped this book to really find its footing.
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