The Girl Who Drank The Moon Analysis

The beginning of The Girl Who Drank The Moon starts off with a story of a mother talking to her child telling them about a witch who takes the youngest baby every year and then it then goes to the perspective of Gherland on the day of sacrifice. The mother of the baby that will be sacrificed refused to give the baby to them, which was rare. She says that if they take the baby, she will find the witch herself. The baby is then taken and the mother is sent to the Tower. The baby is then dropped off and Antain, Gherland’s cousin, asks if they should wait for the witch, but then the Elders leave, as they think there is no real witch. The witch, Xan, comes to get the baby to bring to the free cities on the other side. After Xan gets the baby, she attempts to feed her starlight but then accidentally feeds her moonlight. She decides to raise the baby and call her Luna.

She then finds the castle with the magic stone doors and grabs books, maps, papers and journals. She then finds a spell which can stop Luna’s magic until he is 13. Unfortunately, when she tries to teach her anything that's related to magic, Luna’s eyes went blank and didn’t hear or see anything she says or shows. So they just decided to teach her normally, while Xan convinces herself that Luna is a regular girl with no magic. Antain’s also gets attacked by the madwoman, who was the woman from before that wanted to keep her child, by her paper birds in the