The Battle of Evernight

by Cecilia Dart-Thornton Narrated by Kim Bretton

Overview

Her stolen past is the one secret the immortals would silence. Hunted and wasting under the Bitterbynde's spell, the wanderer called Tahquil is driven toward the last Gate between worlds. Beyond it waits a choice that could heal two realms-or break them both.

In the far north, a raven prince rules a lightless stronghold where weather, stone, and fate obey his will. Allies falter. Oaths tighten. And a love tempered in peril must face its hardest truth. To survive, she must remember who she was, dare who she is, and decide who she will become-before Evernight closes over all.

A sweeping, folklore-rich climax to a beloved fae saga, this is the moment to step into Erith and feel the old magic working on you from the very first page.

Editorial Reviews

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The Barnes & Noble Review
The Battle of Evernight, the final installment in Australian author Cecilia Dart-Thornton's Bitterbynde trilogy, takes place in Erith, a richly detailed realm filled with a plethora of magical seelie (benevolent) and unseelie (malevolent) creatures. Seamlessly mixing British and Irish myths, fairy tales and folklore, Dart-Thornton (called Australia's answer to J.R.R. Tolkien) creates an extraordinarily wild world, comparable to Middle-earth, that can be both breathtakingly beautiful and, in the blink of an eye, the stuff of nightmares.

With her memory slowly returning, the protagonist, Tahquil, along with her friends Caitri and Viviana, vows to find the Bitterbynde Gate, the only remaining passage into the world of Faêran. By finding the elusive gate, Tahquil can stop the impending war between feuding immortal Faêran brothers trapped in Erith: Angavar, the High King of the Fair Realm, and his younger twin brother, Morragan, the Raven Prince. The battle between Angavar and his followers and Morragan and his unseelie legions will likely take hundreds of thousands of lives, but if Tahquil can find the gate in time, all the immortals stranded in Erith will surely end their conflict and return posthaste to the Fair Realm.

Fans of folklore and fairy tales should make it a point to read Dart-Thornton's entire Bitterbynde trilogy (The Ill-Made Mute and The Lady of the Sorrows are the first two books). Her fluid, almost hypnotic writing style is reminiscent of Elizabethan poetry or Celtic music. In short, this is beautifully written, timeless fantasy. Paul Goat Allen

Kirkus Reviews

Final installment in the trilogy (The Lady of the Sorrows, 2002, etc.) set against a British/Irish myth/folklore backdrop. The war between the immortals High King Angavar and Prince Morragan continues; they and their retinues can’t return to the Fair Realm until they discover the location of the last remaining gate. Following yet another confusing change of name, Tahquil (a.k.a. Ashalind, Rohain, etc.) has recovered her memory; she does know the location of the gate—she hid inside it while a thousand years passed—and hopes to stop the war by sending the antagonists home. Somehow, though, she can't quite recall the gate's exact location. Still, with her companions, young Caitri and the maid Viviana, she must search—while Morragan's agents search for her. A couple hundred pages’ worth of travelogue later, Morragan grabs Caitri and Viviana, and Tahquil, too, when she goes to rescue them from Morragan's enchanted castle in Evernight. But Morragan can't force his way past the barrier in her mind, and he's too much of a gentleman to torture her. Tahquil realizes, though, that Angavar, whose armies press ever closer, is not only her beloved, Thorn, but King-Emperor James, the supposedly mortal ruler of Erith! There will be a showdown between Angavar and Morragan, and Tahquil will find . . . not what she hopes or expects. Beneath the padding, overblown prose, and interminable description, a genuinely moving tragedy sometimes glimmers through. Would that Dart-Thornton had simply let her characters find their way. Still, fans of the previous shouldn't be disappointed.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940203380296
Publisher:	Leaves of Gold Press
Publication date:	08/27/2025
Series:	The Bitterbynde Trilogy , #3
Edition description:	Unabridged

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