The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig's The Knight and the Moth is a gothic romantasy about a prophetess bound to a cathedral of vanishing seers and the heretic knight she needs to find them. It's moody, funny in flashes, and built around a slow burn that actually earns its swoon.
From the review
Sybil Delling has spent nine years learning to read gods and never once being asked what she wants. That's the hook Gillig hangs the whole book on: a girl called Six, one of a handful of Diviners raised inside a cathedral to dream visions from six unearthly Omens, has maybe days left before her decade of service ends and she's finally free. Then her fellow Diviners start disappearing, one dream at a time, and freedom turns into a countdown she didn't choose. What makes this book work as romantasy rather than just fantasy with kissing is how deliberately Gillig withholds the romance. Rodrick, the knight who shows up rude, unimpressed by prophecy, and completely unbothered by the cathedral's authority, isn't set up as an enemy. He's an irritant, then an ally, then something Sybil can't quite categorize, and the book lets that shift happen in small increments instead of a single lightning-bolt scene. Readers expecting knives-out enemies-to-lovers should recalibrate. What's actually on the page is closer to grumpy meets sunshine, if sunshine came with a sword and a habit of getting under your skin before you notice he's done it. The tension isn't will-they, it's when, and Gillig is patient enough with the answer that the eventual payoff feels like something Sybil chooses rather than something that happens to her.
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