Nobody's Goddess (The Never Veil Book 1)

Nobody's Goddess (The Never Veil Book 1)

Amy McNulty

  • 3.8 out of 5
  • 380 ratings
  • 296 pages
  • PG-13
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Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13

This fantasy centers on a young woman challenging a village’s masked-men customs, romantic jealousy, and a late twist that upends who holds power. Language stays relatively mild for most of the book, with occasional oaths and frequent verbal put-downs in family and village disputes. Parents should expect moderate physical and social violence, including injuries, blood, and rebellion against rulers, plus off-page or referenced sexual mistreatment of women and war-related harm. Reviews also mention a lesbian relationship that feels lightly threaded in, philosophical talk about attraction, and emotional torment of the lead; pairing and marriage rules drive much of the conflict rather than a straightforward romance.

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Crude Mild

21

Characters often call one another foolish or worse in heated talk; it reads as everyday insults rather than constant crude jokes.

Amazon reviews mentioning crude

Specific words
  • stupid: 18
  • idiot: 3

Profanity Mild

5

Strong language is light and scattered: a single vulgar body term in a political rant and a handful of mild oaths during quarrels or private frustration.

Amazon reviews mentioning profanity

Specific words
  • damn: 4
  • ass: 1

Violence Moderate

26

Physical conflict includes wrestling, kicks, a near punch, whipping, stabbing, and wartime or uprising harm with visible blood. Customer notes also warn of war violence, mistreatment of women, and references to rape; one sampled passage describes very graphic aftermath involving a child.

Amazon reviews mentioning violence

Specific words
  • blood: 13
  • kick: 6
  • bleed: 2
  • smash: 2
  • stab: 2
  • punch: 1

About this book

Winner of The Romance Reviews' Summer 2016 Readers' Choice Award in Young Adult Romance. A novel readers are calling "spectacular and heartbreaking." In a village of masked men, each man is compelled to love only one woman and to follow the commands of his “goddess” without question. A woman may reject the only man who will love her if she pleases, but she will be alone forever. A man must stay masked until his goddess returns his love—and if she can’t or won’t, he remains masked forever. Seventeen-year-old Noll’s childhood friends have paired off and her closest companion, Jurij, found his goddess in Noll’s own sister. Desperate to find a way to break this ancient spell, Noll instead discovers why no man has ever chosen her. She is in fact the goddess of the mysterious lord of the village, a man who refuses to let Noll have her right as a woman to spurn him. Thus begins a dangerous game between the choice of woman and the magic of man. The stakes are no less than freedom and happiness, life and death—and neither Noll nor the veiled lord is willing to lose. Fans of Rhys in A Court of Mist and Fury , the Darkling in the Grisha Trilogy's Shadow and Bone , and Jareth in Jim Henson's Labyrinth will devour this Beauty and the Beast -style romantic adventure. Read more