Not quite as good as a river enchanted, but I did still enjoy this book and getting to know the characters and the isle more!

This sequel to A River Enchanted is as just as good if not better than the first book. This series is cozy and magical and perfect for people who want a light fantasy read

3.5⭐️ rounded down.

A Fire Endless is the conclusion to the Elements of Cadence duology.
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I enjoyed a River Enchanted. It was a little slow for me, but overall a good read.
A Fire Endless lacked in depth world building that would enable the reader to become fully invested in the story. Much of the magic system isn’t explained at all and therefore isn’t as exciting as it could be. The pacing was also worse than the first book. At some points the book was so slow I wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue.
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However, that being said, the characters were wonderful. Jack is a hopeless romantic that wins you to his side quickly. And Adaira is fighting for what’s right not only for her people, but for the whole island.

This book is one of the best books I've ever read. Torin and Sidra mean everything to me, and I have already recommended this to all of my friends. Rebecca Ross is in a lyrical, beautiful league of her own.

A stunning conclusion to a wonderful duology. The character development and world building were rich and thoughtful. The magic system was beautiful and I'm sad this will be the last book and we don't get to enjoy these characters anymore.

I received an advanced copy of A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross from the publisher Avon and Harper Voyager via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What It’s About: This is the second book in the The Elements of Cadence series, giving a description of the book would spoil book one. But let it be known that this book picks up right where we left off.

What I Loved: This fantasy series is expertly crafted and I am a Rebecca Ross fangirl officially. The writing is excellent and the premise of this duology is so excellent. I love the world building and the connection of nature and music, I struggle to explain why the world building of this novel is so unique and excellent, just read it. The second in the duology is excellent and as captivating as the first, but we are introduced to different aspects of the world. The book had a satisfying ending and I was upset to not stay in Cadence longer.

What I Didn’t Like: Thoroughly enjoyed, no notes.

Who Should Read It: People who read the first book. People who are looking for a fantasy book that is smart and unique but a bit more gentle.

Summary: A second in a duology, where we find out what happens to our bard and the heiress.

I'm not sure what happened between the first book and this one, but I remember loving the first book and even gave it a glowing 5 star review. But I can't make myself keep listening to this one.

Everything I remember loving from the first one is just missing. The characters don't interest me. The plot seems contrived. The spirits are melodramatic and annoying. The mystery doesn't pull me in.

I'm listening to the audio, and the narrator is definitely not my favorite, but I don't think it's just that. The accents she's using feel fake and weird to me.

I keep thinking back to the first one and remembering things and... none of it is interesting now? I don't care, I don't enjoy it... it's very odd.

It doesn't help that everything is being told to me rather than shown. I don't remember if that's the case in the first book as well, but I hate being told how everyone is feeling and what they are thinking and doing instead of just watching it unfold.

After reading through some other reviews and noting what they say about the romance overpowering things and the ending being unsatisfying, I think I'll just call it here and be done. There's no way I'm putting myself through the whole 500+ pages of this.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Voyager for providing an early copy for review.

I loved A River Enchanted and was so excited to be approved for the digital ARC.

This book lived upto all my expectations.

Returning to the enchanting isle of Cadence filled me with immense joy, eagerly anticipating how things would unfold after the exhilarating conclusion of “A River Enchanted.”

The story’s atmosphere continues to exude the same captivating allure that graced the first book. Its fairytale-like ambience, infused with the irresistible charm of Scotland, remains as lush and mesmerizing as ever. Cadence, the enigmatic island, the resolution of age-old clan conflicts, and the exploration of the spirit realm collectively construct a vivid and immersive world.

This duology holds a special place in my heart, and I absolutely adore it!

Rebecca Ross does it again! I absolutely love her and this world. I read the first book in one sitting and this one was no different. I was enveloped with the story, world building and intrigue.

An absolutely flawless conclusion to the Elements of Cadence duology. The writing has the same lyrical pull of book one while hitting the ground running. The ending was beautiful and not one I'll forget anytime soon. I am so happy to have this duology on my shelves to lend to everyone.

Thank you to St Martins Press for the eARC. All thoughts are my own.

A Fire Endless is the stunning conclusion to the Elements of Cadence series. This magical world grows as Adaira and Jack are split into the East and the West. We learn more about the past and the lore that fills this island. I loved that we also get to see more of Torin and Sidra in this book. They play such a large role and their relationship is beautiful. New characters are introduced and we learn more about characters who were introduced in the first book. Full of Ross's signature magic, quiet love, and fierce heroines, this book feels like being wrapped up in a cozy blanket. Another magical book from Rebecca Ross!

I loved this book. It’s no secret that I struggled with the first book, A RIVER ENCHANTED, until I switched to the audiobook but after that, it was smooth sailing through both books. I loved the narrator and the series progressed so smoothly. Book 2 felt like a natural extension of book 1 and I didn’t feel a clunky divide between the books like I do with some duologies. It has a different flavor than the first book but in a way that made sense for the plot.

I’m a huge Rebecca Ross fan and will read everything she writes.

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I just finished ‘A Fire Endless’ and it was spectacular!! I loved the character growth in all of the characters and the personal journeys they all had to go through. Adaira and Sidra are two of my favorite female characters I’ve ever read.

One of my favorite things about this duology is the the magnificent atmospheric prose. Ross does such a wonderful job of building a scene and immersing you in this landscape. The folklore and Lyricism just jumps of the page.

Recommend this series to lovers of slow build fantasy, lyrical prose and historical fantasy. Absolutely love these books!

“You and I have faced many things alone. Between the mainland and the isle, the east and the west, we've carried our troubles in solitude. As if it were weakness to share one's burden with another. But I am with you now. I am yours, and I want you to lay your burdens down on me.”

Rebecca Ross is one of my top five favorite authors EVER. I am talking about if I went to a deserted island and had to pick an author to read and reread I would hands down pick her. A Fire Endless is a beautiful conclusion to the duology, and I found myself swept away in the magic of the world created by these divine words. I frankly never wanted to leave and would have happily read more books, pages, even a small collection of words as a way to not have to leave. I owe Rebecca Ross partial credit for my love of reading, and I will forever and always think of this beautiful book.

5 stars

A Fire Endless + me = my favorite Rebecca Ross book of all time.

Excuse me while I sob forever that the Elements of Cadence is officially over. This duology it Rebecca Ross' best work. She should forever write adult fantasy because she was made for it. Don't get me wrong her YA stuff is great, but this duo was breathtaking.

I honestly don't even know where to start, I mean I just basically want to pterodactyl scream until everyone I know reads this series. Never in my life did I think I would fall so in love with a duology. I tend to prefer a good old standalone or a nice long series. But this duo hit it perfectly. It told not one but two great love stories and wove an epic tale of fantasy.

Adair and Jack where I begin to describe my love for them. I was so sad when they were separated but it melted my heart and soul when they reunited. Same with Sierra and Torin. I don't like it when my faves are separated but Ross did such a great job.

And that ending? I was sobbing at work. Not.a good look you know but I could not help it. I was broken and I was planning on going home early because I need to cry in peace. Obviously, no spoilers but it was so good.

This is one of those series that I think I will reread every year or so. It is simply one of my favorite reads of all time.

I'm giving this book 4 stars, but only because of Jack and Adaira's storyline. Mild spoilers below, so read at your own risk.
If the first book seemed to focus more on Sidra and Torin, then this one was absolutely Jack and Adaira's time to shine...and they definitely did. I loved watching Adaira embrace her anger once she was in the West (I was so there for her going after Rab after what he did to Jack), and really enjoyed her learning to balance the apparently innate need for violence Breccans feel with the gentler way she was raised in the East. And it was about time Jack gave in to how in love with Adaira he is, and I am so, so glad we didn't have to wait the entire book for them to be reunited. Once they were, I really liked how they didn't spend the whole time playing the "I don't know if I can really show my fears around the other person," game. The emotional shields were dropped, and it was perfect.

Sidra and Torin's storyline was a bit of a disappointment because it felt too similar to the first book. Torin again spent most of the book having to learn the lesson of "don't take for granted what you have," and poor Sidra again had to juggle EVERYTHING alone (although at least this time Torin being MIA wasn't his fault).

That being said, the writing is beautiful (as all of Rebecca Ross's books are), and the world it describes is evocative of everything I love about the Scottish countryside (violent, unpredictable weather included).

What a beautiful ending to this duology. Rebecca really delivered a MASTERPIECE here. I was truly in awe in how she had so many different storylines woven together and each one was interconnected throughout both books. With this one in particular, I really felt a deeper connection with the characters and was emotionally invested in them all. There were so many different things that she touched on; tradition, family, love, putting aside differences for the greater good, and being selfless. of course so much more, but those are what stood out to me and made this such a beautiful story. Books like this are why i love fantasy, and this duology will forever be one i recommend to my fantasy loving friends.

As a teenager, I was a voracious fantasy reader: Harry Potter, Eragon, Lord of the Rings, Artemis Fowl. If there was magic involved, I was reading it. These tendencies didn’t stick with me as an adult, but reading Rebecca Ross’ debut adult fantasy series felt like a personal homecoming to the genre.

The Elements of Cadence duology is centered around the residents of Cadence, an island entrenched in Scottish-inspired folk magic and split by an ages-old feud between the Tamerlaines in the East and the Breccans in the West. While reading the first installment of the duology, A River Enchanted, I was enthralled by Jack and Adaira of the Tamerlaines, childhood enemies turned reluctant partners in order to call upon the spirits of the island to help find missing girls in the East.

The second novel and final in the series, A Fire Endless, turns a warm welcome to Cadence into an enchanting, high-stakes battle for the fate of the spirit and mortal worlds. Told with the same lyrical prose and again in multiple, third-person perspectives, the book picks up exactly where A River Enchanted left off: Adaira taken as a willing prisoner to the West by her newly-revealed birth parents and Jack left to pick up the pieces of the East plagued by a mysterious blight on its lands and people.

With disaster afoot, the relationships between characters old and new remain the heart of A Fire Endless. Jack and Adaira, now husband and wife, pine for each other across clan lines with the hope of unifying the East and West somehow, not only for themselves, but for the good of the island. Torin and Sidra, newly appointed leaders in the East, struggle to understand the blight infecting their orchards as their people look to them for guidance. As in A River Enchanted, Ross is a master at balancing each of these characters’ turn as the narrator. Chapters often switch between two to three points of view, and never once does it feel jarring or leave the reader wanting more; on the contrary, it feels like a fascinating look at a crime scene through the eyes of each specialist involved in analyzing certain information.

The pairings of Jack and Adaira and Torin and Sidra often take the center stage, but I also found myself very invested in the individual struggles of Jack and Adaira to connect with their estranged parents in the West; Jack with Niall and Adaira with Ines and David. Even if they’ve lived on the same island their whole lives without knowing it, diving into the world of the Breccans is a culture shock. The treachery on their side of the island is difficult to swallow — Adaira is forced to witness death matches under her mother’s rule and is advised to poison herself in order to build up a tolerance for it and avoid assassination attempts. Despite all of this, underlying the violent traditions of the West is the nobility of its leadership, as well as evident, unconditional love between parent and child, which I found particularly moving as these characters grow closer to finding common ground.

Along with a deeper understanding of the Breccans, readers also learn more about the spirit world. Spirits were certainly present in A River Enchanted, but they come to the forefront in A Fire Endless as Bane, the Spirit of the North Wind, emerges to overtake the mortal world with blight, famine, and war. Silenced by Bane with unknown magic and determined to dethrone him, we meet Ash, the laird of fire, Orenna and Whin, the sisters of enchanted wildflowers, Hap, the hill spirit, and many more spirits of nature, who play a part in helping our human heroes. Most notably, the book opens with the first and only section from the perspective of Kae, a wind spirit and messenger to Bane who is brutally banished to the mortal world and ultimately provides information that helps Jack destabilize the nature of Bane’s true power. This section, in the way that it captures the beauty and violence of the spirits, felt like the best, most unique example of Ross’ handle on prose which carries into her descriptions of the mortal world through the entirety of the book — beautiful, lyrical, with an underlying bite and realness to it.

The addition of the new characters and the gorgeously wild nature of the spirits provides a richness to the lore that, while memorable in the first book, makes the world feel even more magical. With a deepened sense of Cadence’s folklore, as well as heartrending insight into the relationships between lovers and family, A Fire Endless is a riveting adventure that takes readers into the unknown and provides an epic, satisfying conclusion for the characters we’ve come to love. Rebecca Ross proves her mastery in fantasy and romance, and it’s absolutely can’t-miss.

I didn’t think I would like A Fire Endless better than its predecessor, A River Enchanted, but I think I did. Each of the four main characters have equal weight in the story, and each of their journeys are equally compelling. Rebecca Ross’s words are just so beautiful, and I don’t understand how she can craft a book that is simultaneously gut wrenching, tense, and cozy all at once. Though I am sad to see the end of this story and this world, this book concluded in a very satisfying way. I love these characters so much, and each of them went through a lot during the course of the story. Rebecca is a magical writer, and if you enjoy character driven and emotional stories, I don’t think she will ever let you down.

What a delightful surprise!

I don’t typically read fantasy, but I saw trusted friends posting about their love for A River Enchanted and decided to give it a go. I did the audio and fell in love with everything about it. The isle, the characters, the magic, the drama, the Scottish accents. When I saw the sequel pop up in NetGalley, I knew I had to read it immediately. And it more than lived up to the first! I hope I can convince some nonbelievers to try these out like I did 🤞

Thank you Harper Voyager and NetGalley for the gifted ebook. I hope we get more of this story!

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