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Nobody's Quest by Alyssa Day Series: The Nobody Chronicles #1
Published by Entangled Publishing on June 2, 2026
Genres: Romantasy
Pages: 400
Format: eBook
Source: author
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The goddess needs a nobody. The prince needs a miracle.
Soli Graymind might be both.Soli has spent most of her life being invisible—an indentured servant, a library mold-scrubber, the girl no one sees unless she’s in the way. So, when the king’s guards show up with swords drawn, she assumes it’s a mistake.
It’s not.
Moments later, she’s standing in the throne room while the king tells her she’s been chosen to retrieve a set of ancient keys—only the keys can save the goddess and stop the chaos beyond the palace walls. Because the world isn’t waiting to be saved.
It’s already burning.
And beside him stands Prince Kaelen: devastatingly beautiful, mercilessly cold, and certain Soli won’t survive the hard journey ahead.
He’s probably right.
But Soli's survived a lifetime of hard everything. She may be a nobody—no training, no real power, and no idea why she was chosen—but she refuses to be expendable. Even if the quest ahead is anything but simple. When assassins, monsters, and impossible choices fracture the fragile alliance slowly building with the Prince, Soli realizes she can’t hide in the shadows anymore.
Because, for the first time in her life, she has something to lose…
A high-stakes romantasy filled with slow-burn romance, found family, and a heroine who never expected to be anyone’s first choice.
This was such a unique storyline! Soli is a Greymind. In this world, she’s branded as such on her wrist. It means there are times where she goes into a depression. A real depression. The kind where your mind lies to you and you feel nothing. Not happiness, not sadness, nothing. And you are nothing. Or a nobody, in this case.
Soli is a servant in a library, and she reads everything she can get her hands on. She loves books to the point that even those that are destroyed, she keeps as many of the pages as she can. She wraps words into her braids; little scraps of paper with empowering words.
One day, she’s cleaning the floors and she’s hauled in front of the king. All the while she’s protesting and questioning why the king would want to see her? She’s a nobody. And that is exactly the reason. She’s a nobody, and nobody can touch the goddess’ key.
Their kingdom is slowly dying. The two goddesses had a fight and one was locked away. The lands have been drought-stricken, food isn’t scarce, yet, but it’s going to happen if things don’t change. They need to release their goddess. But nobody can touch the stone that lets them find the key.
Several other nobodies have been dragged in front of the king, and when one is forced to touch the stone, she dies. Soli sees this and decides that she has to at least try. She volunteers to be next, and when she does muster up her courage, not only can she touch the stone, but the goddess is able to communicate through Soli. She’s given some directions to the next location for the first key, and their band of misfits is formed. There’s a prince, Kaelen, Soli’s best friend Trick, the sorcerer, and several others.
I love Alyssa Day. I love her sense of humor, and I love the way she writes, and I love her imagination. I would like to have seen more interactions between Soli and her best friend Trick. The way he’s introduced to us, we don’t have the same background experience as Soli, so it’s hard to like him all that much. I know that’s intentional, but still, I wanted more of their friendship together, not just the tense parts we saw. I would also like to know more about the sorcerer. She’s a really interesting character.
Oh, and I loved the last line of the book, “I will never quit. And I’ll never be nobody again.” I don’t know how many books are planned for this series, but I can’t wait for the next one, and I feel like in this book, we’re just getting started.
