What to know about Like the Moon We Rise
Annabelle Cormack is new to The Bookish Elf: none of their books has a review here yet.
It sits at No. 21 on our January 2027 most-anticipated list, which ranks the month's books by how many readers have saved them. At 384 pages it is about the usual length for a fantasy release this month.
From the publisher
The deadliest poisons are the sweetest...
Auriel has spent her life indentured to a cruel hag, working as a poison maiden to do her bidding. Her sole relief is a friendship with a dashing supplier, storyteller Faolan. But then Faolan betrays her, delivering her to haughty Prince Ambrose before she can earn her freedom.
Ambrose has a if Auriel pretends to be the prophesied all-powerful Khelani and helps him liberate their people from the Empire’s control, he'll finally let her go. But Auriel is a poisoner and a witch, not a legendary warrior – and the prophecy is a fairy tale… isn’t it?
If the war is to be won, bargains must be struck, motives hidden, friends broken and remade as lovers – meanwhile, unburied truths will shake the world to its core. Soon, Auriel is fighting not for her freedom, or her heart, but for her life.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read Like the Moon We Rise yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
