Unfortunately I was unable to download and Review this book. I have thus given this an impartial 3 star rating for this book review.

'Faith and Moonlight' by Mark Gelineau and Joe King is the first in a serial novel set in a pretty decent fantasy world. I know because I've read other books set here.

Roan and Kay really only have each other. When a fire takes everything else, they decide to enter the School of Faith. They are assigned difficult tasks, but given help along the way. Things come really easy for Roan, but not for Kay. She struggles and soon a deadline is looming. This test their relationship as one may be staying at the school and one may be moving on.

I've read 6 prior novellas by these authors. The stories are a bit short, but the world and characters are pretty solid. I liked this as much as the others I've read.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Gelineau and King, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

This has to be one of my favorite books by Mark Gelineau and Joe King that I have read so far. I loved the characters so much. Roan and Kay are just too precious. The raw, loyal emotions they have for each other is just perfect. This is a short story about the destruction of their past and the chance for a better future, together. The will do anything in their power and out of it to stay together and attend the school of Faith. Of course Roan succeeded easily with getting accepted into the school while Kay struggles a lot. Then an unlikely character offers Kay help that no one else has though of. I can not wait to continue with this series. I am addicted.

These authors are magic. Such intense world building and in-depth characterisation in a short work, simply amazing! I love this whole series of books and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.

Last year, I read and enjoyed four of Mark Gelineau’s & Joe King’s novellas from two threads of their fantasy series, Echo of the Ascended. So much so I didn’t wait long into this year to continue my reading with Faith and Moonlight; the first novella in a third thread of their epic series.

Previously I have read about Elinor a brave orphan girl who rose to be the King’s Reaper; in the A Reaper of Stone thread. Also, I have read about another orphan Alys, who is a hardened survivor of the dangerous, poverty-stricken underworld of the capital city; in the Best Left in the Shadows thread. Turns out these orphans all originally knew each other and this novella takes the reader back in time to the tragic fire at their orphanage which saw them separated and scattered across the kingdom.

In Faith and Moonlight, we are introduced to teenage orphans Roan and Kay. Who have been torn from the only home and family they’ve ever known, after a terrible fire destroyed their orphanage and killed most of it’s inhabitants. Now, Roan and Kay are journeying together to the city with hopes and dreams of entering the prestige School of Faith to train to become a legendary Razor. However, on arrival they are given just one month to prove their worth by passing the entry trial of pushing past the veil and touching the magical power within. Failure will mean an end to all their dreams and the prospect of life out in the cold, dark and dangerous world alone.

Unlike the previous novellas I have read, Roan and Kay are not grown up orphans but instead they are still young, naïve and vulnerable. This gives the reader the opportunity to watch them grow and, hopefully, follow their path to success like their fellow orphans Elinor and Alys. It also cleverly gives Gelineau’s and King’s series a young adult thread. Ronan and Kay are very close to each other and have promised to face everything together. Yet on arrival they find themselves divided, as Roan excels in his training Kay desperately struggles to keep up. I really liked them both and found myself willing them on, particularly poor Kay.

Like previous threads this new one gave me a view of another area/side to the kingdom of Aedaron. First, I was taken out onto the wild Marshlands; then I was taken to the dark, seedy Lowside; while this took me to the beautiful and serene School of Faith – a place of peace, education, power and history, with its marble buildings and lush green grass, where there is the opportunity for fame and glory if Roan and Kay are allowed to stay! I enjoyed having this pleasant and safe setting however don’t get thinking this means there is nothing scary. Just outside the gates the bustling, dangerous world threatens and Kay is terrified of going back there.

Overall, I thought Faith and Moonlight was another highly enjoyable young adult thread to this epic fantasy series and I look forward to reading Faith and Moonlight 2 soon!