Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight -- for their country and for themselves -- in this riveting debut that's part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity.
Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal magic, she fears being branded a traitor and imprisoned. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Linné defied her father, a Union general, and disguised herself as a boy to join the army. They're both offered a reprieve from punishment if they use their magic in a special women's military flight unit and undertake terrifying, deadly missions under cover of darkness. Revna and Linné can hardly stand to be in the same cockpit, but if they can't fly together, and if they can't find a way to fly well, the enemy's superior firepower will destroy them -- if they don't destroy each other first.
We Rule the Night is a fiercely compelling story about sacrifice, complicated friendships, and survival against impossible odds.
My Review:
I had such a fantastic time reading this book! I've really enjoyed her other two books, and I was particularly obsessed with The Winter Duke, so I was really looking forward to this one. It was such a great read, I couldn't put it down!
It was really great to get both of their perspectives. Linné had pretended to be a guy, so she could be a solider, so she has the training and discipline for that, but since she was a girl, the only way she could stay when she was found out, was to be put in this unit. Which didn't work too well, since they basically shrugged off the rules that were so important to her.
And Reyna, a factory worker, hiding her ability, since they took away her father because of it. But now that they've found a use for it in the war...well. I was rooting for her, even when things were horrible-like when they were ordered to bomb her hometown, just in case, so that the enemy couldn't take it.
But oh, that ending? That was kinda depressingly realistic, that they had to reshape their story to take away all that they accomplished and give it to other people. That was just tragic, and after all the atrocities of the war, was a pretty grim ending. And made all the infuriating by how little credit any of the girls got, even after putting in twice the effort, throughout the whole book.
Loved reading this book, and I hope there will be more from Claire Eliza Bartlett, but it doesn't look good since The Good Girls came out in December 2020.
Author: Claire Eliza Bartlett
Read: May 25th, 2023
Source: Library
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2023 Book!
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Published: April 2nd 2019
But oh, that ending? That was kinda depressingly realistic, that they had to reshape their story to take away all that they accomplished and give it to other people. That was just tragic, and after all the atrocities of the war, was a pretty grim ending. And made all the infuriating by how little credit any of the girls got, even after putting in twice the effort, throughout the whole book.
Loved reading this book, and I hope there will be more from Claire Eliza Bartlett, but it doesn't look good since The Good Girls came out in December 2020.
Author: Claire Eliza Bartlett
Read: May 25th, 2023
Source: Library
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2023 Book!
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Published: April 2nd 2019
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