“Firelight,” a wonderful and a delight of a title if you ask me. And to think that it tells a story about dragons! Needless to say, I was a bit excited. Any significant series that I know of that are based on dragons is the “Eragon” series, but I never developed the taste for it. Many Young Adult books has written countless books on ‘vampires’ ‘werewolves’ ‘angels’ and even ‘fairies.’ It’s about time someone picked other magical species, like DRAGONS!
Firelight, Vanished, Hidden by Sophie Jordan 3.5/5 stars
The story flows as though you are drinking a decent red wine when you are already tipsy. You know, when you know that the wine is good since you’ve been drinking all night but after you are a bit tipsy, you wouldn’t notice a difference between a $50 bottle and a $8 dollar bottle? The story felt like that to me. As usual, I didn’t have much expectation but the world itself was pretty fascination and the author’s description of her dragons was quite beautiful. So, I got sucked into it. But soon enough, I found flaws and annoying side characters as well as main characters. But it was just soooo easy to read through it all!! Which is why I finished all three books in about a week!
*this review may contain spoilers*
Jacinda is a VERY rare fire breather even among her kind. She is treasured but protected in the most twisted way. As a teenage dragon who loves to fly, she rebels. She is quite self righteous and won’t stick with a plan for five whole seconds. She falls in love the worst possible guy and puts everybody she loves in danger. (no surprise there)
Will is a dragon hunter. He finds the human form of Jacinda irresistible as well as the dragon. He has more than a handful of secrets himself including his whole family and no doubt the prince charming of this story. A loner at heart until he found Jacinda, now he just won’t leave her alone.
Cassian the next leader of the dragon clan, is not much introduced in the first book. But he makes his presence from the second. He is big, tall and powerful, he always thought he would be mated with Jacinda, thus making him a worthy opponent of Will. (a character I pity the most in this series…)
Tamra, Jacinda’s TWIN sister, totally caught me off guard. So, I won’t say much but I would’ve like to read more about her.
These four main characters mingle very nicely throughout the story. Sophie Jordan writes it in a way that a reader could imagine at least a dozen outcomes and never a dull moment. Also all three books reads like a whole story instead of having months in between books. Although I have questions unanswered, (that’s only because I pick at ever little things! lol) I would recommend these books to anyone who is in need of a fast and furious read!
I have only read the first one but I loved it!
Well then, you would love all three of them! =D