I’m normally not a romantasy reader but I love Claire Legrand’s writing so much that I gave this trilogy a try. I’m glad I did — it’s completely sucked me in and I’m loving it so much.

The trilogy involves three sisters with very different magic whose world is falling apart. The Middlemist, which protects humans from dangerous creatures, is failing.

Each book focuses on a different sister, and Song is Farrin’s story. One of my favourite things about the trilogy so far is that the sisters are flawed, complex people, even a bit unlikeable at first.
Farrin is overwhelmed, stubborn, and angry, and the only one who understands her is her family’s sworn enemy, Ryder.

Legrand blends fantasy and romance so well — the world-building is complex and simmers with danger. A few scenes border on horror. The romance builds nicely and isn’t the insta-love that usually has me avoiding the genre.

A Song of Ash and Moonlight is book two in the Middlemist trilogy. I enjoyed it even more than the first book, A Crown of Ivy and Glass.

Thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for my review copy of this book.