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How Does Ember And Ice End?
Just finished reading Ember and Ice by Corinne O'Flynn and those final chapters had me in tears! Are Reyker and Ailith truly safe now, and will their powers combine for a new beginning?
2026-06-04 15:31:09
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Joyce Morris
This one isn't a story I've read, but stories like ‘Ember and Ice’ typically end with the couple managing to keep their hot sex and deep feelings for each other, despite the demands of hockey. I've been reading ‘Ice & Ivy - A Hockey Romance’. In this story, the resolution of the story hinges on a public declaration by the star captain of the team: will he give up his chance at a major milestone in his career to publicly support his partner through a difficult time? I found it a very satisfying resolution to their secret relationship.
2026-08-05
Avery
The final act “ Ember and Ice” is amazing! The movie follows the magic system rules to change them and now embers preserve memories and ice sparks creativity. The duel turns into a dance and is displayed beautifully. The ending also follows the rules and is amazing to see. The imagery of their combined magic creating beautiful stained-glass ice art to display the true history of the kingdom is so wonderful!
What I love most about the end is that there are consequences. The Ember Queen lost her crown, but she got to keep her school. The Ice Sovereign has a throne, but he’ll die of old age. And that scrawny little thief from chapter three becomes the first dual-element ambassador ever. It’s a wonderful ending that makes me want to go back to the beginning and read the whole thing again for all of the clues that were hidden throughout the story that I didn’t even notice the first time.
What I love most about the end is that there are consequences. The Ember Queen lost her crown, but she got to keep her school. The Ice Sovereign has a throne, but he’ll die of old age. And that scrawny little thief from chapter three becomes the first dual-element ambassador ever. It’s a wonderful ending that makes me want to go back to the beginning and read the whole thing again for all of the clues that were hidden throughout the story that I didn’t even notice the first time.
2026-06-05
Gavin
This was so good, the ending of 'Ember and Ice' really got to me. It was so unexpected for the protagonist to literally melt the Ice Sovereign's heart (so beautifully symbolised too), only to discover that he wasn't the real enemy after all. The real conflict had come from the fears of the other people in the Sovereign's kingdom about change, and how the Sovereign had tried to tackle these issues. That scene where the fire and ice magic mixed together to create rain for the first time in centuries was beautiful too.
What has stuck with me is the resolution of the blacksmith/librarian in love by letters scenario. He is a fiery blacksmith and she an icy librarian. They don’t end up together but the letters they sent to each other have spawned a new area of cultural understanding and exchange. Bittersweet. It’s the same feeling I get from finishing a cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter’s day while watching the snow fall. The last line of the story, ‘the warmth of memory against the cold of progress’, has taken up residence rent-free in my head.
What has stuck with me is the resolution of the blacksmith/librarian in love by letters scenario. He is a fiery blacksmith and she an icy librarian. They don’t end up together but the letters they sent to each other have spawned a new area of cultural understanding and exchange. Bittersweet. It’s the same feeling I get from finishing a cup of hot cocoa on a cold winter’s day while watching the snow fall. The last line of the story, ‘the warmth of memory against the cold of progress’, has taken up residence rent-free in my head.
2026-06-05
Oliver
It was so good I couldn’t put it down once it reached its climax and all the different plot threads reached their inevitable yet surprising conclusion. The climax was the battle between the Ember Queen and the Ice Sovereign. It wasn’t just a battle of magic against magic between two people with opposing views on how to change their world. The Queen is a passionate person who wants to make change happen for her people while the Sovereign is a cold calculating person who wants to preserve things just the way they are. The big twist at the end was that the two powers were opposite sides of the same coin and that after their big battle they would form an uneasy alliance to change things in their world.
The epilogue was wonderful too, jumping forward 10 years to show how the two rulers had managed. It was a poetic vision of the frost-covered cities, with glowing ember streetlights in each of them. It was a nice compromise, not a purely happy ending, but rather a fragile balance that could still fall apart at any time, just like spring after a long and harsh winter. It was also great to see the side characters of the story getting the closure they deserved.
The epilogue was wonderful too, jumping forward 10 years to show how the two rulers had managed. It was a poetic vision of the frost-covered cities, with glowing ember streetlights in each of them. It was a nice compromise, not a purely happy ending, but rather a fragile balance that could still fall apart at any time, just like spring after a long and harsh winter. It was also great to see the side characters of the story getting the closure they deserved.
2026-06-06
Fade Chen
Spoiler Alert #1: Yeah, that’s gonna happen. Okay, let’s just get this over with! I hope you people are happy because after an enormous battle at the Glacier of Sighs, the very old contract between Lyra’s world and Kael’s world is broken and therefore starts to erase in both worlds. Lyra then reads a very old text incorrectly and finds out that ‘Ember and Ice’ wasn’t supposed to mean uniting in order to save the world, but it actually means that there will be this one person who embodies BOTH ice and ember. ‘The Heart of the World’ isn’t some location of deep and powerful magic but rather it is the embodiment of paradox in the form of a person – in this case it is BOTH Lyra and Kael. So when they perform the final act of the ritual, instead of joining their two magical abilities together, they actually end up switching out crucial pieces of themselves. Lyra can now never be warm and feels cold to the touch, and she’s extremely vulnerable to heat. Meanwhile, Kael is literally carrying around a permanent inner warmth and so is extremely vulnerable to cold. Now they can use the other’s magic, which is apparently amazing. As for the rest of the book’s storyline, after the somewhat intense ending, the two thrones are abolished and there is established a single council that is composed of people from BOTH of Lyra’s and Kael’s worlds. And in the final chapter, which is set five years AFTER the major events of the previous chapter, Lyra travels to the now-thawing out Frostgarden. There, she can growers fire-orchids and not kill them, and Kael travels with her to tend to a patch of ice-moss and NOT melt it. Pretty hopeful and quiet for the end of a book.
2026-08-06
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