However, Annie noted how he looked similar to his father, many of the Golds knew his father way better than Annie did, even the new leader, I'm surprised no one noted the similarity. they were two opposing forces and while i couldn’t fully agree with lee’s choices up to halfway through the book, i still liked his character a lot. Having said that, the romance was still there; the pining, the longing, the almost impossibility of it all that at the same time gave off this meant to be vibe.

These characters are essentially at war, and Munda does not hold back on showing you the brutality they endure and the trauma they suffer. some of the lines were even cliche like “he had dark hair, gray eyes, and high cheekbones” and of course, the overly used “i let out the breath i didn't realize i’d been holding.First line from my Booklist review: “What happens after a revolution, when the fire and fury of the righteous must turn from violence to governance? And the exploration of the political and social aspects created an extra depth of reflection for myself that I feel I don't get with some other books (fantasy or not, just books in general). While it may not draw you in the way Fourth Wing does from the first chapter, it eases you into a much darker, much more upfront world that still relies on dragons. I wanted to imagine an orphaned aristocrat who has every reason to seek revenge, until he realizes that maybe, his family did wrong, too. On the other side of things, we have Annie, short for Antigone (love it), who watched her own family die at the hands of Lee’s very father and his dragon.

From the very start the romantic tension had me rooting for one pair to end up together, then another, and then it got all mixed to the point I gave up and sat back to instead enjoy watching it unfold. Just as many governments are bad at governing, many freedom fighters are quite poor at fighting for freedom. That was a real pleasure to read--she avoids the easy but overused LED lights in eyes for emotional conveyance (his eyes gleamed/smoldered/flashed/shot flames, fire, ice, and daggers, blah de blah). From action fans to romance fans, political junkies to fantasy lovers, many different audiences will find something rewarding here. Fireborne is everything I want in fantasy: deep world-building, fierce and vivid characters, heartbreaking choices, and dragons, dragons, dragons.Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone–even the lowborn–a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders. Imagine for years and years that whenever you saw a dragon in the sky on the way to your village you knew that the rider, a dragonborn noble, will take your crops and money and dole out fiery punishment and death, and you might get an idea of how conflicted the ordinary citizens are about dragons in this fantasy novel.