Piper CJ doesn’t miss! The third instalment of TNIAM is as heart wrenching as it is entertaining & exciting. I desperately need a Daphne and Ceres prequel. I already have the 4th book on preorder.

The ending will leave you breathless! Fae, monsters, Queens and mad Kings, Piper CJ brilliantly weaves them together.

I’ve never been more thankful to be a clueless millennial without tiktok as I am now, after seeing posts containing so much drama about these books and the author. 🍿 From what I gather after reading the series simply because I found them at Barnes & Noble, and they sounded good, the most scathing reviews may not be founded on the actual text. And so I shall remain blissfully unaware and really happy to have spent time in Gyrradin.
Yes the prose is very flowery still. It’s high fantasy, what do you expect?! It’s sweeping and epic and meant to enhance the whimsy of the story. I feel like this finale for our two heroines (as I believe more is to come for other characters?)was really beautifully told. It really reminds me a lot of The Lord of the Rings series in pacing. Sometimes the importance of the story is just being IN the world. We can meander around a bit, then find ourselves in quick peril and back out into slow dialogue and contemplation just as quickly. That’s the fun of fantastical journeys. 4 stars, really well done!

Okay a great continuation of the series. It did feel like one of those books where it was so long yet it feels like nothing really happened? Maybe because this one was focused on character development so much more than the other two books. Nox and Amaris CANNOT be end game or I will bitch slap the author. We have our pairings so let them be.

I love this world Piper has created and the characters are all amazing!
Also the covers all look so pretty!
Definitely a fan

This book flies by! A great follow up for the first two, and I love that we get to see all of the protagonists interact under one roof. Highly recommend!

As always, Piper's book was truly brilliant. I love her character arcs and world building. The relationship development in this was lovely. it's a 5/5*

I am still so absolutely in love with this series. I loved learning even more about the histories of the characters introduced in book 2, and about the history of Raascot that we barely touched on in the previous 2 books. I laughed, I cried, I felt anxious at times, and I couldn't put it down. It had the perfect mixture of tension and ease to keep me tearing through the pages.

I love the representation in the books, I know there's more and more as each day goes by, but this feels so genuine to me that I 'vibe with it'. Though not every relationship in this book is my favorite, but they're all so unique that I appreciate each of them being there. They're messy, they're tender, they're complicated in all sorts of ways, and I love it. The struggles that Nox and Amaris go through would absolutely not be something I want to experience outside of fiction, but damn does it make for good reading.

I'm now anxiously waiting for the best installment. I can't wait!

I found Piper CJ on accident, just her first book (the indie published version) and bought it without knowing the price. I fell in love. The world she creates is so gorgeous and comforting. The first 2 books were full of twists and turns but by this book I had fallen into Nox and Amaris's story like a warm mug of broth on a rainy day. This third book explored beautiful relationships and the finite quality of love, showing that being in love with someone doesn't stop you from feeling love for yet another person. I recommend this book and every other piece of Piper CJ's work to everyone I know because it mixes fantasy with the bisexual experience and the pain of being female in a patriarchy.

SPOILERS AFTER THIS

I will try to explain without fangirling too much, but when it comes to Piper I fangirl a lot. She writes with every sense in mind, providing readers with stim music, smells, and recipes to make the book more realistic as you go. In this one, my favorite so far, Nox and Amaris finally manage to be in the same physical space but end up distanced because the crown on Nox's head and her mother's final prayer make her question the validity of any moment in her life. But this doesn't stop the two girls from finding a home for themselves after a life hopping from the child mill to psuedo families across the continent where only parts of them get to shine, in the palace both Nox and Amaris get to learn to be fully themsleves. Nox allows herself to have soft edges again, still treating life like her personal chess board, but finally allowing herself to love more than just Amaris. Amaris learns her destiny and that she is more than it. I just wish I could give this book an award or some kind of magic spell to draw everyone to it.

So sorry to find that I could not have good comments to write. I stopped, read other things and returned. But forced and forced myself to finish. My overall feeling is melancholy and unease. The plot is streched and streched. It could have been a novella. Not an actual novel.

Honestly, I love the bi representation Piper is trying to create, but I’m not sure her writing style is for me.

I think this series had so much potential but ended up falling flat for me.

Really enjoyed it!

A fairly different read than books 1 & 2, cap ended with some intense story development and action. Enjoyed getting more into the backgrounds of the established characters and learning more as they continued to grow, evolve, etc.

Looking forward to hearing more about Sulgrave, their motives, and what they had to do with the attack on Aubade.

Unsure if this is the final copy or if additional edits had been done since but a few grammatical errors, missed punctuation, or chopped off/incomplete sentences but nothing that took away from the overall read.

The Gloom Between Stars is the tertiary novel of The Night and its Moon series, and I swear every book makes me fall in love with the world of Gyrradin even more. As the world our characters explore widens and the stakes heighten, you spend the first half of this story recovering from the events of the second installment, and the second half of this book preparing for the cliffhanger at the end. As Nox and Amaris learn the truth about their past they are met with a world bigger than they imagined, kingdoms, love, and who they are meant to be clash head on. New characters puzzle them as they brace to face a war across continents. This book truly explores bi-romance and all the fluidity of a world where people can love whoever they want, without the social dichotomy of the world we live in today. It's so good to see multifaceted characters who love and are loved in complicated triangles and struggle with their feelings. Piper CJ is a masterful author who vividly creates a world that is easy to fall into, and characters you'll easily fall in love with- with a Master's in Folklore, Piper creates a world where the monsters are deadly, fascinating, and unique. With new threats around every corner, will our favorite friends and Fae make it to the Dawn and its Light?

The plotline between Ceres and Amaris being captured is resolved in like the first fifth of the book which messes with the stakes of the rest of the book. I'm not one to complain about trigger warnings or lack thereof usually. It's fiction; anything can happen and I won't tell people they can't write about suicide. But to put a content warning for breath play on the previous volume and then not put a trigger warning for suicide is unacceptable. For those readers who have had mental health issues, it may be a trigger that could cause a relapse which is not what we are going for.

I got this book from Net Galley in exchange for a review.

I really wanted to try and finish this book, and I still might, eventually, since I have already put myself through two of these books. I don't think I can finish it right now. Getting through each book has been a slog, each one harder to get through than the last, and I really thought that this book was going to be the last of the series- imagine my surprise when I saw that there's a fourth one coming. I was ready to power through because I thought it was all going to be over, but finding out that there's another one kind of took the wind out of my sails.

As someone that has never seen the Witcher, I think I was luckier going into this, since many of the similarities that others have pointed out went directly over my head. I loved the idea of a slow burn romance between the two main characters, but the longer that they are apart, the more difficult it is for me to see any sort of happy ending between the two of them, and in fact I found myself, in the second book, enjoying the pairings that were made more than the Amaris and Nox pairing.

Overall, I'm kind of just... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Gloom Between Stars by Piper CJ is a lovely continuation of a story that I have grown deeply attached to.
What I loved about this title
-This title engages with its worlds race related issues in a way that previous installments had been criticized for not doing showing growth for both the writer and story.
-Pacing has improved dramatically at this point within the series.
-World development continues to keep my attention
-revisiting these characters I love felt like a special treat.
What might not work as well for other readers
-By nature of its place within a series the Gloom Between Stars does not stand particularly well on its own
-dialogue tags felt like they were used with a rather heavy hand still

Who I recommend this work for

The Gloom Between Stars is an excellent follow up story for fans of Piper's Previous books set in the same world.

This book was a struggle to get through. Admittedly I wasn't a huge fan of the first two either, but the editing and storyline in this one was difficult. I feel like there are still a lot of loose ends and plot holes and certain aspects of the world are confusing (and they really shouldn't be now that we are in the third installment) I won't even go into the problematic aspects of the book from a race/disability/Societal issues, etc. I think maybe I'm just not the audience for this author.

This is the third book of Piper CJ's TNAIM series and I think it's the best so far.
I loved the first two books as well but Piper has outdone herself with this volume.
In "The Gloom Between Stars" the characters have grown and developed, you get to know them all better, experience their feelings, love them (or hate them in case of the villains). They feel like friends and every single character is relatable in their own unique way.
At the same time the reader gets to know this fictional world better, its magic, its lore, its ideals and we finally get to go North to Raascot, which so far is my favourite part of the Gyrradin continent. Castle Gwydir feels like a safe place where all the characters can learn to know themselves and each others, heal, grow, be safe and breath for a while.
Not only I loved the plot itself but also every single scene between all the main characters. I love how there's no judgment between them, how they're free to love whoever they like or just have sex and fun. I love that everyone is respectful of everyone's boundaries. This is a great book (and series) for everyone but especially for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Without adding any spoiler I also really appreciated the complexity of the new character we meet in this book.
I definitely recommend reading it to everyone that needs an escape from our world!

Piper CJ has become a favorite author of mine and I'm excited to read anything she puts out. Being able to get access to the ARC and reading book three in this fabulous series has been both great and awful.
The book picks right up where we left off and the journey is filled with a lot of really sweet moments that a lot of characters deserve (some that make you smile so hard your cheeks hurt and others that are revenge driven but also make your cheeks hurt from smiling). The pacing is perfect and ebbs and flows naturally as the characters explore their paths. It ends at a cliffhanger (classic) and now I'm stuck waiting for book three to get released so I can read it again and then of course there is the wait for book four. And let's be real, if the the worst part about it all is just having to wait for the next installment then the books are doing freaking great lol.

Oh my om very thankful to bloom & NetGalley for this arc 😭
What a journey we’ve been on with Nox, Amaris and their gang of bandits. I love each and every bean in this book but I have to admit that Malik holds my heart.

So the book kicks off right where sun & shade left it and it’s an amazingly written adventure. There’s a bit more of intimate scenes which I actually enjoyed and were fitting in the story and not too much. Well done, Piper.
We make friends with new people in this book and we will thoroughly hate the ones we already know. (Not for long)
This is so brilliantly constructed and Piper has made sure all the emergency exits are covered and leave you gasping for answers. (Especially at the end, thank you. Like I already told you Piper, I hope you stub your toe)
The character development was once again amazing and I didn’t think my babies could become even more real as people. Chapeau.

I’m not going much into the story as for the people who have read the previous books know what it’s about, but if you’re doubting after book 1 or even 2, please continue!