The Stars Are Dying: Special Edition (Nytefall Trilogy, 1)

Loved this new world and characters. So much betrayal and half truths, let's hope on the next installment things got better.

so many twists and turns in one little beautiful package literally had to tear myself away every night to go to bed. I did not want to put this down. I cannot wait to discover the rest of Nyte and Astrea's story..also zath and Rose's story...This story has amazing dialogs with a dynamic storyline.

With Quicksilver and The cruel prince, it would be this. A book that started with so many questions and ended with even more. For most of the book I felt I was trapped in mud and struggling to escape. There are so many tropes thrown in here, a hard narrative to follow, a lot of information that is eluded to, a past the FMC has (but we never get to fully find out not even after so many pages) that I just can’t shake the feeling this book was never edited. The way it ends though it just compels you to buy the next one (I already fear the hard read on that one too).Sigh…I mean as much as this book packed it delivered nothing in the end. I gave it 3 stars because of those parts that keep you hoping at some point things will start making sense (they don’t).

"It was all real, Starlight. Everything we've been through. Everything I feel for you is real. When the dawn comes, please remember that."4.5 ⭐️!!✨ Tropes & Themes ✨✔️ Star-Crossed Lovers✔️ Villain Gets the Girl✔️ Vampires, Fae, Celestials & so much Magic!✔️ Secrets, Twists, & even more Secrets 🫠✔️ Slow Burn goodness 🔥✔️ Forbidden Romance✔️ A total and complete mental SUCKERPUNCHHHH*screams into the void*I’ve seen this book poppin’ OFF on my socials, and so I decided to satisfy that mood reader voice in my head that told me to drop everything and dive in. And I did. And I loved it.This book was so much fun, omg. And listen, I was confused a lot of the time. 🤣 turns out, you’re supposed to be a little confused the entire time. Trust 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 process 👏🏻We start off by learning about baby girl Astraea, our silver-haired, skittish FMC. She only remembers the last five years of her life, and we don’t know why. She’s hidden away, manipulated and used by he who must not be named. No really, what was his name? (😏🤣) and her only freedom is sneaking out to go visit her best friend, Cassia.The world is dangerous, vampires run amok and pray on humans for more than just their blood. Cassia is planning on competing in the King’s Games to protect her people and keep the vampires away. Astraea plans to come along with her.Spoiler territory, so I’ll start talking vibes in a minute. I thought I was predicting what was happening - but I was wrong, horribly wrong. 🥲🥲🥲 and poor Astraea, she goes through so much. She starts seeing someone, but this person isn’t totally there. He goes by Nyte, and he’s everything we love in our MMCs, but this one is like the true villain. 🤌🏽He shows up when she needs him, but he isn’t really there - and yes, we do find out why. Just waaaay later.I was very confused and had to read over pages a lot in this book - it could be bc I’m a little dumb, or it could have been the author’s narrative style being sneaky and making us confused so she can drop reveal bombs on us later that ROCKED OUR WORLD. 🤣🤣🤣Beautiful story, incredible banter, slow burn but with a delicious spicy scene, ugh! I loved this book, I really did. My physical copy is otw now so I can treasure it always until the next book launches. A must read for romantacy readers everywhere!!

The story and concept were interesting and unique, however the book was filled with typos, spelling and grammatical errors, that took away from the book as a whole, and make it feel very amateurish.

This is so different from other stories I've read. I love that there are all kinds of paranormal characters in this book. It is also a slow burn as well as forbidden romance. Can't wait to read the next book

I wanted to love this book so much but I just can’t.I originally saw a few videos on tiktok promoting this book months before it came out and I was immediately intrigued. I followed the author and when it was released, I read it.However, I’m not exactly sure what I read. The story itself has good bones, I just feel that it could have been pulled together more. It wasn’t bad, which is why my review is 3/5 stars.The FMC has no memories from past 5 years, yet she also has no desire to find out anything. She is an abuse victim, yes, however the author shows her trying to move into something powerful, but it’s not coming clear as the story progresses. The wording was difficult to comprehend, and at first I thought it was a reader error but after rereading multiple pages over and over again I still found myself confused on what was attempting to be said.I also understand the appeal of keeping a reader hooked by withholding answers but at 50% of the book the 3 questions I had at the beginning were now 70 questions and all unanswered.I also understand the appeal with mysterious MMC but he was so conflicting, one moment he was one person, the next, another, which makes it very hard to want to keep reading because you don’t really feel as if you know the characters at all and if they’re trust worthy which was a little frustrating, not to mention the way he spewed random statements? Astrea would ask a question and he’d shakespeare a reply out. Just be direct dude?The author has also very clearly taken some ideas from other popular books, I won’t name them but it is clear if you have read the series, which is always flattering if they are distantly related but it felt as if it was copied right out of other books.Overall, I understand this is the first book of a series and within a fantasy world, so world building takes time and perhaps the next book will provide some answers and clarity of what this first book even was. This book had potential and I was very excited for it. I waited for months, however after forcing myself to finish in hopes of a big reveal, I find myself disappointed and will more than likely not be continuing this series.