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A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross

4 reviews

linneak's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Abandonment, Murder, Child death, Death, Grief, and Violence

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A Fire Endless is a fitting end to the Elements of Cadence duology and an equally fitting sequel to A River Enchanted.

Rebecca Ross has crafted these twin books with great care, and it shows in the writing. Whilst reading Fire, I could feel her expert hand guiding the plot and characters, rather like (at least as it seemed to me) a chess master moving all their pieces into place to reach - in this case - a winning conclusion.

There were times when it seemed that Ross's writing held me under some magic spell, that to stop reading would be to break it.  I realise that may sound odd and faintly ridiculous, but it is a testament to the immersiveness of the world and characters Ross has created that I felt this way.

I don't mean to say that this book was without flaws. Sometimes in between reading sessions I would lose the thread of certain plot elements, and had to accept that they had already been explained so I did not have to go back and reread. And that phrase I referred to earlier, about the chess master? Well, there were times when the chain of events seemed a little too convenient, too planned, too predictable.

But these quibbles didn't affect my overall enjoyment of the novel, and I am greatly looking forward to reading more from the extremely talented Rebecca Ross.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Sexual content, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Torture, and War

A major plot point in the novel revolves around the Breccan Laird and her family taking

small amounts of a lethal poison called Aethyn to build up an immunity to it

. The Breccans also dish out justice

via the sword, where accused criminals fight in duels to the death to prove their guilt or innocence

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naomi_k's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Torture, Sexual harassment, and Classism

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

While this book had some pacing issues for me in the beginning, the second half of this book truly stunned me. I love these characters so deeply, and this story of redemption and love and justice just makes my heart elated. I don't re-read books often, but I can TOTALLY see myself re-reading this duology.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy, Murder, War, Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Torture, Vomit, Bullying, and Injury/Injury detail