I received a free digital copy from the author/publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest feedback.

Cathar follows the life of Francois, a young Cathar knight who has to struggle to keep his faith and livelihood during the time of the Inquisition.

I wasn’t sure what to expect of this but I ended up really enjoying it. I found the telling of the Inquisition and the bad treatment of the Cathars really easy to understand and follow - I actually had no idea about Catharsis so this was also a learning experience for me. Francois’s voice was honest and kind and he was definitely an admirable character - I love characters like him who can try their hand at everything and over the course of a book seem to live multiple different lives from knight to pilgrim to sheep farmer. I did find his weird obsession with Blanche a bit annoying at times but overall, I could get over it. I found Stephanie’s treatment of Blanche to be irritating as well - real slut shaming but not surprising.

One of main problems with the book was the repetition. The chapters were split into multiple POVs and it seemed like when it switched POVs, we’d end up getting half of the story from the POV we’d just read, just from the other character and I don’t think this was needed most of the time.