Tessa and Corrick offer opposing but equally convincing perspectives on complex ethical questions. Tessa sees how the poor struggle to stay alive and how their dissent transforms into revolution, while Corrick witnesses how those with power are willing to violate personal and moral boundaries to keep it. The book achieves a nuanced view of politics by depicting how individual characters impact and are affected by wider systemic issues in Kandala.
From horrific public executions to tense council negotiations to shocking rebel counterattacks, author Brigid Kemmerer ( A Curse So Dark and Lonely) takes readers on a breakneck journey about power, deceit and the price of progress. In alternating chapters narrated by Corrick and Tessa, Defy the Night hits the ground running and never slows down, leaping from one charged moment to the next. Desperate, Tessa sneaks into the castle-only to discover that Kandala’s corruption is far more complicated than it appears.
But as the sickness spreads, tensions rise between those who can afford cures and those who can’t. Meanwhile, healer Tessa Cade and her partner, Wes, a mysterious thief, steal and redistribute moonflower petals to those in need.
As the citizens of Kandala revolt, demanding that the cure be made more widely available, Harristan and Corrick crush all dissent with cruelty and violence. King Harristan and his brother, Prince Corrick, have inherited a kingdom plagued by a deadly sickness, and the only cure, an elixir made from rare moonflower petals, is in dangerously low supply.
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