Series: The Seven
Kingdoms
Publication date: September 24, 2009
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN-13: 9780575085114
Synopsis
Fire is a the last of the human monsters in the Dells, because of
their beauty that can drive men and women insane with desire, besides that
there's the little problem with their mind controlling powers, because of the treat
the present on the Dells they've been eradicated, making Fire an outcast
in the Dells. She resides in a secure place where her beauty can't hurt anyone
and where she fears she may someday use her powers for evil.
Fire is soon moved out of the safety of her home, for the king
needs her to use her powers to help them win the war that is open them. Feeling
guilty for it was her fathers fault the kingdom is almost ruin fire goes to
their help, escorted by prince Brigan who doesn't trust Fire. Who could trust
the daughter of the man that spend his life trying to kill him?
Now Fire must gain prince Brigan's trust, keep king Nash
from believing he loves her, interrogate and find
the spy's with in the castle and keep herself safe from the
mysterious person that keeps sending people after her.
Review
I felt tricked! it all sounded like a great book, she was supposed
to have this strange relationship with prince Brigan, her love interest, while
the imminent threat of war was upon them. But there was really no real romance
there, it was a given they would end up together, there was no second guessing,
no real love proof or chemistry to make it memorable.
One would think the threat of a war would bring some action or
fighting into the book that would draw you in now that you knew where the
"romantic" part of the book was going, but not really.
Getting to sympathize with the main character Fire how is this
super pretty monster human that it didn't matter how many scars or
what happened to her buddy people will always go ga-ga for her, mixed
in her daddy issues and her never really trusting herself. The part that made
me loss all respect for her was *SPOILER* that she would consider it so casually
that she had to sleep with a guy she didn’t love just because it had become
some sort of ritual. I just couldn't sympathize there was always something that
made her feel unreal or that kept me at bay.
If that wasn't bad enough the story felt all the same, I remember
my grade school teacher telling us the way a story works could be compared to a
landscape, at first you would find the land flat where they
would establish the characters and the story, then you would see little
hills that would represent the relevant parts like discovering about the
characters past and other stuff relevant to the story, then you would go up a
mountain where you would be getting to the climax of the story, and then you
would slowly descend to that mountain to find the end of the story. If I were
to compared this story to a landscape it would be mostly flat a couple of small
hills but never a mountain that would take us to the most interesting part of
the story.
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