Rezension zu "The Night Ends With Fire: the #1 Sunday Times bestseller" von K. X. Song
Nicole_Jaguschupdate: the more I think about the potential of the book and the excetution of it, I'm getting more and more pissed, so 2.5 stars. I'm petty.
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actual rating: 3.5
The thing about this book is that I really enjoyed my time while I was reading it, and I was really sucked into the world. But now that I have finished it and sat a bit with my thoughts, I'm just okay about it.
I love the idea of a Mulan retelling, where she's doing it for selfish reasons, just to get away from her father, and the fate of being the wife of someone who is just as bad as he is. I ALSO really love the idea of this not having the Disney ending, where everything is all and well and people will get over the "but she's just a girl" real fast.
I think it's the love triangle at the end of the day that really was so damn unnecessary. And also just not believable. The relationship between Meilin and Sky just didn't do anything for me, not romantically, it worked much better in a platonic way. Meilin and Lei on the other hand. That's what I call chemistry. This better be endgame. (Also I need to see more of Autumn)
I really liked the magic in this.
And I really wanna see how the story continues in the next book, now that we are probably gonna move away from the Mulan story of it all. At least I think we are.