Cicely and Rhiannon are the newly crowned Fae Queens of Winter and Summer, but their rule is still threatened by Myst, a vampiric fae who will stop at nothing to destroy the Golden Woods and subjugate both the fae and human worlds. With a traitor in her closest circle, Cicely doesn't know who she can trust. She must make a choice between possibly losing her closest friends or ruling like the Queen of Winter. Can she find the spy and stop Myst before she's lost everyone she loves?

NIGHT'S END is the fifth and final book in the Indigo Court series by Yasmine Galenorn. As a newcomer to the series, I had no trouble keeping up with the plot and the complex relationships between the characters. That said, this is a series that would benefit from being read in order. I followed what was happening, but the emotional connection would have been greater if I'd read all the previous books in the series. There is also the promise that some characters from the Indigo Court series could become crossover characters in Ms. Galenorn's new series. NIGHT'S END leaves enough room for secondary characters to find their own path in her vast worlds, so maybe we'll see their stories in the future.

NIGHT'S END features some very graphic and explicit sex scenes. I found them to be an odd fit with the tone of the rest of the book, which is a little more formal like epic fantasies tend to be. There is also a love triangle between Cicely, her husband Grieve, and a vampire prince Lannan that distracts from the main plot. Granted, I'm not a fan of love triangles, and I didn't read the book in this series that developed the relationship between Cicely and Lannan. It is quite possible I missed the emotional connection needed to make those two feel right together. As it was, I felt bad for Grieve and lost respect for all three after Cicely and Lannan's encounter. One of the themes in NIGHT'S END for Cicely as queen to learn how to do what is necessary for her kingdom rather than make decisions based upon her personal feelings. This love triangle flies in the face of that lesson and felt unnecessary.

I did find the story to be anti-climactic. Myst is a larger- than-life character, yet her assault on the human world as well as the Fae worlds happens mostly off screen. There are long conversations about what must be done and planning what must be done, followed up by gritty sex, but I missed an element of a "ticking clock." There is no rush to destroy Myst and no real threat to the main characters until the final show-down. Myst is such an interesting character that I would have loved more scenes with her because I really wanted to know who she is and what drove her to do the things she did.

NIGHT'S END by Yasmine Galenorn is sure to please fans of this series as the conclusion leaves room for a possible return to this world if secondary characters get their own stories, while wrapping this story up satisfactorily. Fans of urban fantasy with gritty sex, complex power structures, and open endings will appreciate NIGHT'S END, but if you're newcomer to the series like me, you may want to start at the beginning of the Indigo Court series in order to appreciate the world and the characters.