Fantastic genre authors usually develop their craft around sagas on which to develop new imaginaries, new worlds, approaches where to extend the magical presentation of overflowing fantasy realities.
Jay Kristoff is one of the current mainstays of the genre internationally, along with other greats such as Patrick Rothfuss u Orson Scott Card, and in this case, the arrival in Spain of his saga The Nevernight Chronicle is an event that its growing readers will surely receive with open arms.
As for the first book in the saga, finally called here: Never Night, in a scrupulous literal respect for the original title, we meet Mia Corvere, antiheroine in any other novel but protagonist and empathic criminal once her delivery to the world of crime was discerned as gesture of Machiavellian justice in a world where the good can take justice on their own to achieve the only possibility of redress: revenge.
Because the case of Mia Corvere is that of that girl grown up with the trauma of her father's execution every time he decided to surrender to the cause of rebellion in a republic that adopts all the vices of our society, extrapolated to that world illuminated by three suns.
And precisely in that world of overflowing light, the shadows are clandestine entities with which Mia ends up finding harmony, in a supernatural capacity to interfere with them, with the shadows eager to slide between a deceptive reality of light that subdues all the inhabitants. of the Republic.
Mia ends up soon entering the Red Church, a kind of academy of ruthless assassins in which she only seeks the necessary training to launch her revenge, the one that revitalizes the rebellion that her father commanded.
Every new murderer worth his salt must overcome a thousand and one tests that the Red Church prepares with the ultimate aim of sifting through the most capable true murderers. And Mia will not be able to imagine the risk involved in trying to overcome that sieve.
With the tension of the protagonist facing survival at all times, we will empathize with Mia, with her cause, with her past, with her longing for summary justice ...
And in the end, the story inserted in the fantasy also brings a lot of transgression, black humor, sex and extreme sensations in a new world where the knowledge of the limit is the goal for everyone who wants any end in that dystopian, apocalyptic world. at times…
You can now buy the novel Nevernight, the first part of Jay Kristoff's homonymous saga, here: