This anthology offers us glimpses of the characters’ lives before and during the events of The Goddess of Nothing at All. It also includes two short stories found at the end of each of the hardback editions of the Unwritten Runes duology. I’d suggest to finish the duology first to avoid spoilers.

Pain lanced up my body, into my chest, drawing a scream from me. A fucking dinner knife. Someone had stabbed me with a fucking utensil.

How absolutely pedestrian.

—Loki

I had forgotten how different these characters were before everything they went through in the first book. It made me miss them and long for a reread.

We get to know more about characters we had met just in passing, and they’re multifaceted enough to deserve their own books.

He said things about me more kind than anything he’d ever uttered before. Things more than the day to day. Things that spoke of love and pride. Things that were too late, at the end of it all.

Cat Rector understands life, love, and all types of relationships. And she delivers it wrapped in beautiful prose.

I am convinced Cat Rector’s favourite hobby is stomping on her readers’ hearts. Books like this remind me of why I fell in love with indie fantasy.