Reviews - The Night Ends With Fire

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The Night Ends With Fire

K.X. Song

3.83 AVERAGE

sarah_ayy's review

4.0

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

juliapetal's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I met this author in a library right before her first published novel came out and my mind is blown that I’m here now. That was so incredibly good. Do instead of other stuff-good. And best of all, it set up the exact same Tamlin/Rhysand premise for book 2.

bmcwilliams76's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

taylorrev's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

byekristina's review

4.5

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I watched Mulan so many times as a kid, it eventually was banned in our home. So safe to say I am all in for any kind of retelling. I was even more onboard when I realised this wouldn't be as sugarcoated as the Disney version.

K.X. Songs world is riddled by a sense of realism, which oddly enough makes the fantasy elements feel more... well, real. Meilin is a complex character that you want to root for - and I love the fact that Song doesn't shy away from letting her heroine make outright bad decicions. She is greedy, she is rash - and that's what (strangely enough) makes her likeable. Even the way the romance is written, which is borderline "love at first sight", is excuseable. Because the characters get time to actually get to know each other - and literally fight eachothers demons.

Where Sky is the knight in shining armour, Lei is the rare morally grey vocie of reason. One is duty before all, the other is themselves before anything. I find that Lei will be the best fit for Meilin in the long run, or at least for the way her character is headed. I hope I'm right.