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7.25.2025

The Moon & Its Eyes (Cain's Song #1)


...that kind of fear has a different velocity.
It doesn't hit you; it embraces you.



The Moon and Its Eyes
Mehrin U
Kindle edition, 305 pages
Independently published December 3, 2020
ISBN 9798576292509

This book was received through a Goodreads giveaway

Accused of murdering the emperor, stealing a forbidden magic from the moon, and releasing a death god, Aarith Anasahara has been exiled to a realm beyond the Shoreless Seas.

With his life hanging in the balance, he is forced to recount the earlier years of his life by his captors—including his trials through Mirradalia’s most prestigious school of alchemy, the mystery around the death of his parents more than a decade ago, and his journey to becoming the world’s most infamous alchemist.

Aarith Anasahara has been captured by Hal Speight for crimes against the realm and whilst on their journey, Aarith captivates Hal and his crew with the story of his youth. A story that began when he was just fourteen years old, on the day he was to confess his love to a village girl and sign his life away to the guilds.

Instead, Aarith is confronted with a creature of his past, a harbinger that he is convinced is the beginning a horrible assault upon the village. The likes of which that overran what was once his home and slaughterd his mother years before. So, with voices in his head and the urgings of a leopard, Aarith, who has never shown a speck of magic in his life, thrusts himself into Dhrakar's trials.

He is accompanied, practically from the beginning, by Cain. Later meets Raven, the emperor's granddaughter. And a number of classmates, both kind and wicked, that includes his crush, Elsa.

The story holds enough action while the trials are simple enough. Fetch a flower. Survive the night. Battle the demon. In the end, I wasn't sure what was real, what was only imagined, or who won, or what was lost.

3 out of 5 stars.

Available in paperback