Fire (Graceling Realm, #2) in YA and Beyond

May 06, 2009 Brigid ✩ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: adventure, romance, favorites, young-adult, fantasy

Fantastic. :) I can't say I liked it quite as much as Graceling, but it was still amazing. I think Kristin Cashore has a great writing style, and you can tell she puts a lot of thought into her characters and even more thought into the intricate world she creates.

Love the characters. ;D Fire was a really cool main character; I liked that she magically attracted people but she wasn't full of herself and she didn't actually want the attention. lol. It was believable. Brigan was also awesome. :D An ...more

5 likes · Like · see review

Nov 08, 2009 Kit rated it it was amazing

Shelves: twilightmoms-botm

Love this book. I read this book for Twilight Moms BOTM along with Cashore's Graceling and while I really liked Graceling, I absolutely loved Fire.

Expanding on the world created in Graceling, Fire focuses on a girl named Fire who is considered a Monster and is recognizable as such by her vibrantly red hair. As a monster she has the ability to enter another's mind and affect their thoughts and actions. Like Graceling, Fire is really a coming of age story and Fire finds her place in her world and ...more

Like · see review

Aug 14, 2011 Berenice rated it it was ok

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 treath 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 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 treath 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 daugther 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.

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.
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 sympathise 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 with her daddy issues, and always afraid of herself. I just couldn't sympathise there was always something that made her feel unreal, 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 where 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.
...more

Like · see review

Apr 24, 2010 Brittany (finally graduated and can once again read for fun) rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010, ya-my-first-love, epic-fantasy-sometimes-w-romance

First of all let me start off by saying that I loved this book! I thought is was extremely well written and you could physically see how Cashore grew as an author from Graceling to Fire.

However, the book did fall a little short for me. I think part of the reason was because I loved Graceling so much. I took the advice of other goodreads users and had a bit of a break between the 2 books. I think this is super important if you get overly attached to certain characters like I do because you don't ...more

Like · see review

Jan 13, 2010 Crystal C. Jonson rated it liked it

Shelves: 1-10

Fire's story is about the longing to be apart of the world, but still appreciating who she it. Seventeen-year-old Fire is tossed into a world that seems to be less full of her kind, and more full of the human kind. She's struggles with the people around her. No one trusts her. But with her bold mind she begins to understand herself.

I liked this book. It was full of adventure and strength. Fire is a strong women who could care less about her appearance and would rather go out and help the fighter ...more

Like · see review

Apr 10, 2010 Heidi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2010

Well, I have to start by saying I was not as into this one as I was into Graceling. Fire was not a bad ass like Katsa, and that kind of bothered me. Having said that, this was still entertaining and had much better writting and characters than a lot of crappy "best selling" books out there. All in all, it was a good book, and I will def. read book 3 in the series. ...more

Like · see review