Kristen CiccarelliFantasy · Young Adult
Heartless Hunter
Synopsis
In the years since a bloody revolution toppled the ruling witches of the Republic, magic has become a hunted, hidden thing. Rune Winters keeps her true nature secret by day, playing the vapid socialite her family expects her to be, while by night she becomes the Crimson Moth — a masked vigilante who smuggles endangered witches to safety before the witch hunters can burn them.
When a rescue goes wrong, Rune decides the safest way to protect her secret is to get closer to the enemy: Gideon Sharpe, a witch hunter as skilled as he is devoted to the revolution's cause. She sets out to distract him with a courtship neither of them takes seriously — until it starts to feel like more than a ruse.
Gideon has spent his life believing witches are the reason his world nearly burned down, and he has no patience for the idle rich Rune appears to be. But the closer his investigation into the Crimson Moth brings him to her, the harder it becomes to separate the woman he's falling for from the witch he's sworn to destroy. Heartless Hunter is a dual-POV enemies-to-lovers romantasy about the price of hiding who you are, and the first half of a duology that ends on a cliffhanger.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (3)
ViolenceGraphic ViolenceSexual Assault
- <div>Not in the mood :( very slumpy so I’ll come back to it. </div>
- Oh my gosh, I DEVOURED this book. I'm not too sure why, but as soon as I picked up this book, I was unable to put it down. I spent an entire sitting reading it, and before I knew it, it was all over. Maybe it just fit with the mood I was in at the time, but it was easy to read and had just enough sprinkled in to keep me hooked on the building relationship between our lovely Rune and brooding Gideon. Kristen Ciccarelli manages to throw sudden plot twists and scenes at me. While I had an inkling of what was going on behind the scenes, I was not expecting it to go a step further to reveal what it did. It's a darn shame that it ended where it did, because things had been left at such a delicious plot point. But knowing that a sequel will be out keeps me content for now.
- are u freaking joking me.

