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Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha
4.75
adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I was provided an ARC via NetGalley to offer an unbiased review. This book is scheduled for release on 28 Nov 2023. If you like romantic fantasy, you should just plan to take the day off work.

A not-so-fun-fact about me: I don't read blurbs or summaries about books before I read them. When I say I had no idea what this book was about when I requested it through NG, I'm not even exaggerating. Horny dragon book? That's what I got, and boy howdy, did it deliver. And it was a queer horny dragon book? Even 👏 better 👏!!

Anytime authors are doing worldbuilding, especially in fantasy, there is a learning curve where the reader needs to have space to take it all in. My favorite version of this is where the author starts in the middle of the action, and assumes the reader is smart enough to pick up and roll with it using context clues. Even though I wasn't 100% sure what was happening at the beginning, they laid the bread crumbs just enough to get me through a 400 page book in 2 days. 

I'm not going to compare this book to anything else out there, but if you enjoy unique stories with a diverse cast of characters and some pretty spicy on-page sex scenes, you will want to add this to your TBR. I'm already pumped about the next book in this world!