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byekristina 's review for:
The Night Ends With Fire
by K.X. Song
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.
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.