Week 32 Reviews: Foul Days, Monstrous Nights

From Goodreads:

As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice taming rusalkas, fighting kikimoras, and brewing lycanthrope repellent. There's only one monster Kosara can't defeat: her ex the Zmey, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She's defied him one too many times, and now he's hunting her. Betrayed to him by someone close to her, Kosara's only hope is to trade her shadow―the source of her powers―for illegal passage across the Wall to Belograd, where monsters can't follow.

Life in Belograd should be sweet, but Kosara soon develops a fast-acting version of the deadly wasting sickness that stalks shadowless witches―and only reclaiming her magic can cure her. To trace her shadow, she'll have to team up with the suspiciously honorable detective investigating the death of the smuggler who brought her across the Wall.

Even worse than working with the cops is that all the clues point in a single direction: one of the Zmey's monsters has found a crack in the Wall, and Kosara's magic is now in the Zmey's hands.

The clock is ticking, the hunt is on, and Kosara's priorities should be clear―but is she the hunter or the hunted? And in a city where everyone is out for themselves, who can Kosara trust to assist her in outwitting the man―the Monster―she's never been able to escape alone?

From Goodreads:

Dive into the breakneck conclusion to the Slavic folklore-inspired Witch's Compendium of Monsters series, which began with Foul Days

With her magic reclaimed and her role in the community of Chernograd restored, Kosara’s life should finally be back to normal—but, of course, things can't possibly be that simple.

She is now in possession of twelve witch's shadows, which belonged to a series of young, magically powerful women lured into the deadly marriage with the Zmey that Kosara only narrowly escaped as a young woman. Holding them may grant her unprecedented power, but that doesn’t mean they're always willing to do her bidding.

Across the wall in Belograd, Asen chases the only lead on his latest case, one of several unsolved witch murders, even against the orders of his direct superior and the mayor. He's convinced the smuggling kingpin Konstantin Karaivanov is behind them, and follows his trail to an underground monster auction—which leads him right back to Chernograd.

There, sinister events follow one after snow falls in midsummer, a witch with two shadows is found dead, monsters that should only appear during the Foul Days have been sighted, and cracks appear in the sky that only Kosara seems able to see. The barrier between worlds thins... and Kosara can't help but feel her actions are the cause.

My Review:
Man, this was such fantastic reads! The synopses sounded really good, and once I picked Foul days up, I couldn't stop until I had finished Monstrous Nights! I was thoroughly entertained, and I had to know what was going to happen next in the story!


These were so fantastic to read, and I can't wait to read more by Genoveva Dimova! 

Author: Genoveva Dimova 
Series: The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1, 2
Read: August 7th, 7th, 2024
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Books, and Foul Days is a DAC Book and Monstrous Nights is a Sophomore Challenge Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: June 25th 2024

Expected Publication: October 22nd 2024

Foul Days:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Monstrous Nights:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars