We Rule the Night is an excellent read for fans of feminist stories set in wartime. The book features two women who must overcome hostility towards each other to learn to work together in a magical flight unit. The novel is noteworthy for its strong female characters and its unique blend of military suspense and fantasy narrative.

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Seventeen-year-old Revna is a skilled factory worker, manufacturing magical war machines for the Union of the North. She’s disregarded for her disability and her second-class citizenship – and after she’s caught using illegal magic, a lifetime in prison looms. Meanwhile, on the front lines of the war, Linné disguised herself as a man to join the army, in defiance of her powerful father and the law. She is as good a soldier as any of the boys (better, even), but none of that matters when she’s caught.Both girls are offered a reprieve from punishment: use your 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 prove their worth to the war effort, their country will brand them traitors. 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.

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