Will I love The Keeper of Night?

The Keeper of Night’s protagonist Ren Scarborough is the epitome of a character trapped between two worlds. Half-British Reaper, half-Japanese Shinigami, Ren starts off the book living in London but never quite feels like she belongs there. When she travels to Japan for the first time, she finds out that Japan isn’t quite as she expected it and ends up getting tangled in the affairs of Yomi, the Japanese underworld. Although a bit on the darker side, this is a fantastic book for anyone interested in Japanese mythology, anyone who likes their fantasy a little on the dark side,… show more.

Japanese mythology has a rich plethora of stories and characters to draw from, and Kylie Lee Baker does it so well with her duology, which begins with The Keeper of Night. It’s about a biracial British Reaper-Japanese Shinigami who battles demons and monsters both external and internal. I was both terrified and amazed at the rich worldbuilding which draws a lot from Japanese folklore about the underworld. I can’t wait to read the second book.