Book Review: Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth #2) by Kristen Ciccarelli

Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh. My. God.

This book right here...might be my favorite book of all time.

I thought Heartless Hunter was the one everyone liked, and I can see why. The action in this book kept me locked in throughout the book, and the romance? GideonRune, the new loves of my life, I love them so much. The growth and the romance the two had while they dealt with the witch Cressida Roseblood, and also how to save one more witch before they left their home to go somewhere else....

...at least, that was the plan. Instead, it turned into a save for Rune from being killed by Cressida because she's the last Roseblood witch alive, and Cressida needed her to wake up her sisters. Rune and Gideon have to fight against the clock to protect Rune and get her far away from Cressida, while she kills the Good Commander and becomes Queen.

The relationship between Rune and Gideon was very sweet and beautiful. Even though he betrayed Rune at the end of Heartless Hunter, in Rebel Witch he does try to hate her and try not to think about her, but he does, even when he goes to the other country and try to get her to tell him what Cressida is planning. Even though he has a curse placed by Cressida because she wants him to be loyal to her after everything she'd done to him, he still loves Rune.

Rune does too, even though she has to pretend to love a prince just to get an army for Cressida, then turn around and leave, just to go back into Gideon's arms, but not after she works with the Blood Guard as well to try and stop Cressida. When she finds out that she's the last heir of the Roseblood witches, she is forced to go back to Cressida, but not to help her.

Oh no.

She wants to try and destroy her from the inside while trying to save the world--which she does, and also break the curse between Cressida and Gideon--which she does. The ending was perfect, seeing the married and living in the Wintersea House, and this duology just because my favorite duology of all time.

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Book Review: Heartless Hunter (Crimson Moth #1) by Kristen Ciccarelli

Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Have I found a book that everyone is talking about, that I've been sleeping on for a while, and have now discovered my new favorite author?

Yes.

Does this have everything I never thought I needed?

Also yes.

Heartless Hunter is about a girl named Rune who's secretly a witch, but she's playing two versions of herself: a socialite and a superhero of witches, kind of like Scarlet Witch. She's saving witches from the horrible Blood Guard, witch hunters that are hunting down witches and eradicating them. One witch hunter she cannot stand is Gideon Sharpe, the brother of her friend Alexander Sharpe. Rune, Verity, and Alex are trying to save as many witches as they can under the name the Crimson Moth, and Gideon has been hunting down the Crimson Moth for two years.

When Rune learns that a witch that she knows is locked up, she and her friends plot to figure out where she is and how to get her, and one of the things she does is fake-date Gideon, even though she hates his guts and wants him dead as a doornail for what he and the Blood Guard has done to the witches she couldn't save. She doesn't expect Alex to reveal that he's in love with her and asks her to go to Caelis with him so they can be married and live forever so she can be free. Nor did she expect to actually fall in love with Gideon, but she did.

The relationship between Rune and Gideon was very nice and cool, very slow-burn, wasn't expecting to love that since I'm not a huge slow-burn romance type of girly, but this was written just right. And the ending?! With that ending and another witch coming back from the dead?? Whaaat?

I'm already reading Rebel Witch as we speak and I'm already in love with this duology, gonna be my favorite one out of the year, I can just feel it. The story is so good, the way the world and the characters pull you in as you read...love it.

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