Burn the Night: The Final Dark Days Novel (Dark Days, #6)

by Jocelynn Drake

"A must-read addition to the urban fantasy genre." -Kim Harrison "Drake has composed a love letter to the vampire genre." -Vicki Pettersson "Jocelynn Drake will have you coming back for more." -Jeaniene Frost New York Times bestselling author Jocelynn Drake brings her remarkable Dark Days series to a stunning and dramatic conclusion with Burn the Night-a thrilling, page-turning masterwork of urban fantasy that brings the powerful Nightwalker Mira and her cohort, the conflicted vampire slayer Danaus, face to face with their most feared demons as the dreaded Great Awakening approaches. Burn the Night offers superior supernatural thrills and adventure in the bestselling tradition of Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and Kelley Armstrong.

• ISBN10: 0061851825
• ISBN13: 9780061851827
• Publish Date: 5 July 2011 (first published 28 June 2011)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Harper Voyager
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 432
• Language: English

Reviews

[Angie]

Burn the Night finally delivers the epic battle that the previous books have been building toward! The naturi who wish to stick to the old ways are finally ready to step out of the shadows, led by their queen, Aurora. Meanwhile, her siblings are busy gathering their own army against her. Of course, this second group has no chance of winning unless they can establish a truce with the rest of the supernatural community, which means convincing Mira. Luckily, Mira wants this war to end, and with as many survivors as possible. If that means work side by side with her once enemies, then so be it. Some other nightwalkers call treason, but once the attacks begin, there's no stopping it.

All of the "small" plots are brought together in Burn the Night. Mira is not only leading the nightwalkers and lycanthropes into battle with the naturi, but she has to face off with her former mentor, Jabari. She's also visited several times by Nick and needs a plan to deal with him. We finally get to meet the mysterious Our Liege, which I found kind of anticlimactic. He seemed quite normal to me, and isn't that important to the plot until the final chapter. Of course, the romance between Mira and Danaus continues to grow. I love them!

Burn the Night is also told from dual POV. It starts off with Nyx as she's trying to convince other naturi to join their cause. I kind of liked this, since we got see how the naturi aren't all bad first hand. But, again, Nyx has the exact same voice as Mira. I don't think the author's strength is distinguishing her narrators. However, it was always clear who was speaking, since the first line of the chapter would have some kind of reference unique to either Mira or Nyx. This dual POV added some extra nerves for me, since I was worried that Mira might get killed, since the story could continue without her.

In the end, Burn the Night was a great finish to the series. It did drag a bit in places, and I'm still not convinced that Nyx's perspective was entirely needed. It was definitely action packed and there's plenty of steamy romance that the rest of the series was lacking! All in all, Dark Days is a fantastic Urban Fantasy series and has earned Jocelynn Drake a new fan.

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