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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.
Publication Year: 2019
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0 0This book is based on a unit of female fighter pilots known as the night witches.
It is a girl power novel. These girls go to the front to fly planes and fight in the war. Women have not been able to fight before as they are "distractions." Linnae has been impersonating a male soldier for 3 years before she is caught and sent away. She fears that she'll end up being some type of administrator and that is not what she wants. Revna has been working in a factory but one night during as air raid, she uses illegal magic and brings unwanted attention to her family.
They both find themselves on a base with a chance to fly planes and help the cause. Their exclusively female unit is sabotaged by the men on the base at every turn.
The magic system is interesting. Metal that "feels." It was similar to the sentient ships in Honor Bound. The female friendships were great and the fact that there was no romance or competition related to male attention was refreshing.
I liked the story but it did drag in places. There was a lot of detail that was unnecessary.
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