The Knight and the Moth

By Rachel Gillig

Book Overview

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes a sensational romantasy, a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight.

"Prepare to meet your next obsession." -- Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.

Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316573752
• ISBN13: 9780316573757
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Orbit
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I Expected More

I’m landing on a two-star rating for The Knight and the Moth. It was a quick, entertaining read, but honestly? It left me wanting a lot more. The story felt really hurried, like it wasn't fully fleshed out. A lot of the plot points felt too easy, and it lacked the stakes or the weight I usually look for in my fantasy reads. I figured out exactly where the story was going long before I reached the end—it was all laid out so clearly that there was no real surprise left. To be honest, it felt very 'Young Adult' in its execution. I don’t mind YA as a genre, but this felt like it had that same simplified, predictable structure where problems just sort of solve themselves. It didn't feel like it actually needed a sequel, and I'm not dying to find out what happens next. It was an okay way to pass the time, and I’ll read The Knave and the Moon upon release, but overall I was expecting more.