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Fire Night by Penelope Douglas
5.0

What a nice way to say good-bye to the four horsemen!

I‘m usually not the biggest fan of bittersweet endings, long epilogues that take years after or show us only glimpses of the lives of the characters. But I loved this one. Mainly because we‘ve already seen a lot of the characters - in their past, the presence and their hopeful glances at the future. So it was nice to actually have them all together for some different festivities than Devil‘s Night.

Novellas that are part of a series usually are fillers or nice stories with not much of a plot. Not this one, though. As we get a last chapter by each horsemen, we not only see how strong their bonds with their wives are going, how fulfilled their lives are with their own families, but there‘s also a plot that keeps you on your edge, leaving us some glimpses on what their own children are capable of.

This novella doesn‘t focus on hot or steamy scenes, on fights or building up tension, but on the happiness each couple is feeling, some unresolved emotions that need to be worked on, and on the children they love so deeply. I truly enjoyed reading this novella, and feel like it‘s a better epilogue than the one we got in Nightfall.

While I‘ve had my highs and lows with the series, and was a bit disappointed with how things played out in the last installement, I‘m happy Penelope Douglas gave us Fire Night which fully focused on Michael and Rika, Kai and Banks, Damon and Winter, and Will and Emmy, as well as their children.

I don‘t know if Penelope Douglas will ever write a book on Mads and Octavia or any of the children, and I don‘t think I truly want one as this ending seemed just right.