As Morrigan and her family sit at dinner in the hours leading up to her 11 th birthday, they are visited by a strange man called Jupiter North, who convinces Morrigan to leave with him to escape the Hunt of Smoke and Shadow. Her grandmother shows some care for Morrigan but is not the warm, friendly type. Her father cares only about his job as Chancellor of their town and her step-mother is often insensitive to Morrigan’s needs.

Though Morrigan is from a well-to-do family, she does not live in a loving household. (Morrigan is blamed for every misfortune.) It’s also said that cursed children don’t live past age 11 because they die at midnight on their 11 th birthday when the Hunt of Smoke and Shadow comes after them. Children born on this day are blamed for everything that goes wrong within their vicinity…or town. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow is a middle-grade fantasy novel about a girl, Morrigan, who everyone believes is cursed because she was born on Eventide, an unlucky day to be born. I began reading as soon as I got it and was immediately sucked in. I placed the book on hold at my library, which had it on order, and was glad that I was first in line to receive it.

It wasn’t until I read the Captain’s review of it that I decided to give the book a try. But the book is mentioned so often by bloggers and booktubers I follow that I got curious. Thinking Nevermoor was probably overhyped, I avoided reading it for as long as I could.

Nevermoor book series