Context helped avoid genuine confusion, but it pricked my ears and made my take note every time it was said. My one critique is that every time the phrase “silver fish” came up, as in fish that are silver or metallic, is sounded smooshed together into “silverfish,” which are tiny, moisture-loving pests that may crop up in a bathroom with poorly sealed fixtures. Rebecca was able to make each character sound distinct without adopting any annoyingly extreme pitch shifting tactics, and I’ll always give props to narrators who can do that. The audiobook narration by Rebecca Yeo was fantastic! I appreciated the accurate Japanese pronunciations that really made it all feel that much more authentic. For everyone else, it’s a glimpse of understanding into an existence we might not otherwise understand. For readers who are also biracial, I think they’ll feel very seen and understood.
Her turmoil and pain over this feels so genuine. This book is far more impactful without the rose-coloured glasses that would be required to envision a happy ending, and I doubt any attentive reader will expect a happy ending by the time they’ve reached the halfway point.Īnd can we give credit where credit’s due and praise the biracial representation? This main character is a BIPOC woman whose heritage is split between the East and the West, and neither world claims her as their own. Without spoiling anything, I’ll say the ending is not a happy one, but I wouldn’t want it to be. The pacing is perfect and the twists are so satisfyingly perfect, even if I couldn’t quite guess them. I found myself trying to figure out what Ren didn’t know as the story went on, trying to figure out it Neven’s worries were valid, and every time I thought I knew what the next reveal was going to be I was proven ever so slightly wrong. Neven is precious! We would definitely be friends. The prose is gorgeous, the elements of mystery are compelling, and the characters feel so real. This is such a beautifully dark and tragic story that manages to make you sympathize with immoral agents of Death and keeps you guessing until the very end. How far will she go to earn Death’s favour? Who can she trust? Will she ever belong anywhere?
When she finally arrives and finds the Goddess of Death she’s tasked with three missions to prove her worth and sets off to complete these tasks with the help of her half-brother, British Reaper Neven, and a banished Shinigami by the name of Hiro. The Keeper of Night is a suspense-filled urban fantasy steeped in Japanese mythology that follows Ren, an biracial Reaper who suddenly finds herself unwelcome in Britain and fleeing to her other ancestral home, Japan, to join the Shinigami. Determined to earn respect, Ren accepts an impossible task-find and eliminate three dangerous Yokai demons-and learns how far she’ll go to claim her place at Death’s sideĪmazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK | Audible Accompanied by her younger brother, the only being on earth to care for her, Ren enters the Japanese underworld to serve the Goddess of Death… only to learn that here, too, she must prove herself worthy. When her failure to control her Shinigami abilities drives Ren out of London, she flees to Japan to seek the acceptance she’s never gotten from her fellow Reapers. Expected to obey the harsh hierarchy of the Reapers who despise her, Ren conceals her emotions and avoids her tormentors as best she can. Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries.
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