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Firelight by Sophie Jordan
4.0

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I really enjoyed the story presented and it wasn’t exactly what I expected. Firelight has more of a teenage, high school drama, slightly supernatural feel, in comparison to the full on dragon action I was expecting. Of course the action heats up in the last few pages and then, without even cooling down the book just ends. I don’t know why this keeps shocking me, flipping page after page of a book and then finally flipping to a page without writing, signaling the end. Regardless of what I thought Firelight would be I still finished the book being really happy about it and wishing I had already bought Vanished (the sequel) so that I wouldn’t have to wait to see how the story continues.

The story begins with a girl living among her pride of dragons, and then her mother forcing Jacinda to leave with her twin sister Tamra to the desert, where her inner dragon will hopefully shrivel up and die in the heat and water less climate. This plan was working until Jacinda meets Will at her new high school, Will who is the same boy and hunter who let her escape the last time they met in the forest and the reason she was forced to leave her pride...(read more)