It seems a little ridiculous – beauty being a controlling magic – but it works so very well. One of the best things that I take from this book is the rules that Cashore inflicts on her worlds magic. It’s a wonderful story, and one that I can’t wait to share with my girlfriend (and all the readers of Fantasy Book Review). She gets tangled up in a royal family, gets her hands dirty with some spy work, and falls in love. It’s been about a year since I read Graceling, and there have been a rather large amount of books in the meantime that have scampered through my mind, so I’m not overly surprised.Īll of this is to say that Fire definitely stands on its own.Ĭashore writes of a seventeen year old, Fire, who is able to influence and control people with her mind and her beauty. Set somewhere around 30 years before the events of Graceling, this book relates the story of a kingdom to the east of the seven kingdoms and lays the groundwork for a character that appears later.Īll of this is wonderful to know, but I had no idea. A book described as a “prequel-ish companion book” to Cashore’s first book, Graceling, Fire is a beautiful and wonderful story that every fantasy reader should read at least once. It comes as a real pleasure to be able to recommend a book so highly as Kristin Cashore’s latest book, Fire.
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