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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 powerful story about sacrifice, complicated friendships, and survival despite impossible odds.
Read We Rule the Night eBook Claire Eliza Bartlett
"Wonderful book debut by Claire Bartlett! Well-written, compelling characters set in an intriguing world of magic and war. Female fantasy characters are so often brave, stand-alone, don’t-need-anybody-except-maybe-a-love-interest types. This story finally fills that need for women working together forging great bonds of friendship and family. Great read!"
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We Rule the Night eBook Claire Eliza Bartlett Reviews :
We Rule the Night eBook Claire Eliza Bartlett Reviews
- Claire Bartlett uses a little-publicized fact of history—Soviet women night flyers who bombed the Nazis in World War II—to create a riveting young adult fantasy novel. The Russian women pilots faced opposition from their own military as well as having to make do with outdated training planes for their missions. Those historical facts are incorporated into this story, which then does its own world-building. A war is on, and the side we’re in has its own oppressions and problems. Magic is readily used on both sides people generate sparks from their hands, for acts as ordinary as lighting cigarettes and as vital as providing the energy needed to run engines and fly planes. There’s a thing called living metal we learn about in the first paragraphs, metal that reacts to human emotion. Another type of magic power, manipulating the Weave, has been forbidden. Yet this power allows one to pilot a plane and the Union is desperate for pilots.
Other reviewers have complained about loose ends, and there are some, but they are the sort to be expected in a novel like this, likely to have a sequel. The major plot lines are resolved. This is a tale of courageous, strong, talented women committed to their work and the war effort and, in the end, each other. No romance. All the male characters are secondary. These are young women learning to believe that they can do anything. - Wonderful book debut by Claire Bartlett! Well-written, compelling characters set in an intriguing world of magic and war. Female fantasy characters are so often brave, stand-alone, don’t-need-anybody-except-maybe-a-love-interest types. This story finally fills that need for women working together forging great bonds of friendship and family. Great read!
- We Rule The Night
Clair Eliza Bartlett
The Union of the North was at war. Magic was illegal. Linne, daughter of a Union general defied his wishes, dressed as a male and joined the army on the front lines. Seventeen-year-old factory worker Revna was the daughter of a traitor. With her father gone she felt responsible for providing for her mother and sister. When she was caught using magic, she was terrified of being branded a traitor and thrown into prison. Revna and Linne were offered a choice imprisonment or they could join a military flight unit and use the magic of the Weave. The unit was all women; the missions were deadly and always at night. The two young women loath each other but their country and their own life depended on their learning to work as a team. They were determined if they had to share a cockpit as pilot and navigator then they would go down in history as the best.
I can’t say enough good about this tale. Author Clair Eliza Bartlett has created a world and breathed life into it. The characters in this book have great depth Revna is solid, heroic and strongminded. Her legs are living metal and they interact with the airplane. The magic was superb as was Revna’s living metal legs. Linne’s character grew, developed and matured as the story evolved. The two young women developed a friendship.
This is science fiction, but it is also loosely based on the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. The courageous women dropped over 23,000 tons of bombs on the Nazi’s. They were nicknamed the Night Witches; they flew only at night and their planes were plywood biplanes. Those daring women faced bullets and freezing temperatures while flying and on the ground, they faced cynicism and sexual harassment. The German’s hated them and feared them. They were a vital Soviet strength in winning WWII. - "We Rule the Night" is an engaging YA fantasy that takes place in a world at war. Revna works in a factory town, making war machines and related materials. She keeps her head down and follows the rules because her father was branded a traitor and her family status demoted, making their survival less likely. Despite the fact that her father made her legs of living metal, a strong and somewhat sentient substance, most people cannot look past the lack of her natural legs, which were lost in an accident when she was young.
Since then, this disability has inspired her to secretly work with the Weave, a type of forbidden magic that alters the world and can cause tangles which may have far-reaching consequences. When her town is bombed by the Eldans, she uses the Weave to save her life- and that of a Skarov, a type of intelligence officer which is known for extracting confessions with torture, knowing that she is dooming herself to a worse fate for the illegal action. However, instead of condemning her, she is offered a place in a new regiment and that doing so will reinstate her mother and sister's status.
Linne is the daughter of a famous commander in the war. For the last three years, she has posed as the male, Alexei, and fought in the war. Women are not allowed to fight. When she is discovered, they offer her a choice- to join a new fighting group in the war, composed of women and using the illegal Weave. Knowing the other options are worse in her mind, Linne agrees but is unhappy to find the other women in her regiment are not soldiers.
The women train to fly aircraft that is undesirable (the better aircraft goes to the men) and must fight against sexism and sexual harassment at every turn. They are assembled in teams of three, a pilot who manipulates the Weave, the navigator who powers the aircraft with Spark (an acceptable type of magic), and an engineer who works on the weapons and keeps the aircraft running but stays on the ground. Due to the other women's reluctance to work with them (Linne for her personality and Revna for her disability), Linne is the navigator paired with the pilot Revna. Although they detest each other, they hate the idea of not being able to fly. As they begin to fly missions- exciting and terrible- they slowly grow to respect each other.
With twists and turns and all the trappings of a terrible war, this book is about an unlikely friendship and feminism. Between Linne and Revna, we witness many sides of the story and the world they live in. The beginning of the book moves slowly, especially as we piece together all the ways this world is unique and the many characters within it. About halfway through, the pace picks up, and I found myself highly engaged through to the end. It gets pretty dark and the end has a bit of a cliffhanger, as I assume that it will be continued in the next book, but I really enjoyed it overall. It is an emotional and intense read, and I really became enthralled with the two main characters, who are each so strong and unique. I cannot wait to see where this story will go.
This book is unique in so many ways- a world which I have never seen, a lack of romance, and so on. In a highly engaging and original story, these characters completely wormed their way into my heart as they did to each other. I wish I had the next book so I could see where this will go. I highly recommend for lovers of YA fantasy- this is one you will definitely want to pick up!
Please note that I received an ARC from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
