Fire (Graceling Realm, #2) in 2015 Reading Challenge [Closed]

Apr 18, 2019 Nicole rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fiction, read-in-2019, high-fantasy, fantasy

This was okay. I liked Fire as a character, and I hope that this means book 3 of the series will take a wider view of both the Seven Kingdoms from the first book and the Dells from this book, but overall I thought it significantly weaker than Graceling. It was a fine quick read, but not something to get too excited about.

A short vent - it really bugs me when a book is clearly set in a fantasy world (as in, not our world) but uses oddly specific words that wouldn't be used anywhere else. I mean, ...more

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Nov 04, 2009 Beth rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: four-star, romance, fantasy, own, favorites, read-in-2009, literary-crush, read-in-2013, young-adult

Re-read 4/26/13. After re-reading this and Graceling, I have decided this book is MUCH better than Graceling. Although both characters are against the whole marriage and babies things... Fire has a valid reason for not wanting children. They could turn out to be mind-controlling monsters bent on taking over everything. Katsa had no guarantee that a child of hers would be Graced, but a child of Fire would definitely be a Monster. And towards the end it did seem like Fire would be okay with marryi ...more

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Mar 26, 2010 iPetim rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: recommendable

WOW. Cashore done it again! i honestly like Fire more than Graceling. Fire is fast-paced, strong believable and memorable characters, unexpected twists, and has a heart-warming ending. i loved everything about the book. it was beautifully written.

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