I have finally finished the controversial Stormfire by Christine Monson. I gave it 4 stars but I’m totally conflicted over it, as I’m sure a lot of readers were. Unless it filled you with hate and one star reviews, which I can also understand. I’m not even sure what to say about it🤔

I honestly don’t even really consider this a romance. It goes into some weird historical fiction drama slot for me. But overall it IS a love story.

This book is long, detailed, like size 8 font and can be hard to get through. But at the same time when I was reading it, I was devouring it. Don’t bother with this book if you have certain triggers or cannot stomach the following:
😱 rape
😱 domestic violence and physical abuse
😱 verbal abuse
😱 incest
😱 losing a child/stillborn children
😱 starvation

I think that covers at least the first half of the book.

😱 more rape
😱 castration
😱 more murder

There was a point almost 400 pages in that my heart was just broken and I was actually loving (engrossed? Loving doesn’t seem to be the right word) then the book took a series of weird turns and started getting heavier in the politics of the time and I began to lose interest.

But overall I persevered through to the end and witnessed a happily ever after...