Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
Started: 10 September 2020
Finished: 6 October 2020
I LOVE THIS BOOK. I love everything about it. It is exactly up my alley. Dragons, politics, competition, a slow-burn romance (maybe, I’m only 150 pages in). I love the voice of the point of view characters, I love the worldbuilding…. I’m gushing but: IT’S GREAT.
And so I again have to apologize, because my attention has been everywhere but reading. You see:
And I just picked up Fireborne for the first time in a few weeks. It’s not you, dear book, it’s me (and the world.)
Hello from the October 7th! I finished Fireborne yesterday. And. Oh. My. Rosaria Munda has a new reader. I loved the pacing in this book. I loved the characters. I loved how there wasn’t really a clear antagonist, unless you count human nature and the thirst for power and status quo an antagonist. The way this book grapples with the consequences of revolution and governance is poignant and necessary for the genre. For me, Fireborne is A Song of Ice and Fire, but condensed to its best parts. (Yup, I said it!) I gladly would have read another 500+ pages of Antigone, Lee, and Callipolis, but Munda’s lean and mean story distilled Fireborne to its purest essence. I am already excited for the sequel, Flamefall, when it releases in March 2021!
2020 Reads:
- The Institute by Stephen King
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel by Seanan McGuire
- The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty
- Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
- Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
- Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst
- Fireborne by Rosaria Munda