Title: Fireborne
Author: Rosaria Munda
Series: The Aurelian Cycle #1
Genre: Fantasy/YA
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: October 15th, 2019
Edition: Kindle Edition, 448 pages
Source: NetGalley
Synopsis:
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.
Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, despite backgrounds that couldn’t be more different. Annie’s lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee’s aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven years of training have made them rivals for the top position in the dragonriding fleet.
But everything changes when survivors from the old regime surface, bent on reclaiming the city.
With war on the horizon and his relationship with Annie changing fast, Lee must choose to kill the only family he has left or to betray everything he’s come to believe in. And Annie must decide whether to protect the boy she loves . . . or step up to be the champion her city needs.
Review:
There is a lot to like about this book. It has a great cast of characters, a really interesting plot, and it was well written in my opinion.
The thing that I perhaps like best about this book is that they treat each other with a great deal of respect and as equals. Even though, or in spite of, everybody treating Annie as if she inadequate because of her being low-born. Annie also knows who Lee is from the start, and there is no big revolution for her to contend with which I felt was a nice change from how a lot of books take things.
Lee is an interesting character. He has basically been raised by the people who killed his family, but he doesn't seem to have a grudge against them for it. And that has a lot to do with growing up with Annie and learning what his family did to hears and how unjust it was. And learning from the other kids in his classes what the Dragonborn did to their families. He sees what happened was wrong, but he still wants to be a dragon rider. He wants to eventually be their leader so he can make sure that things never can return to how it was.
There is a romantic sub-subplot, but it's not between Annie and Lee. Which was kind of odd, because the synopsis kind of implies that there is a romance between them. It really doesn't need to be there.
This book had a lot of elements to it, that worked well together. The impending war from the survivors of the former regime, discovering what power can do to a good cause, learning what you are willing to sacrifice to keep yourself but also protect what you have built.
I am really looking forward to what the rest of the series will bring.
Lee is an interesting character. He has basically been raised by the people who killed his family, but he doesn't seem to have a grudge against them for it. And that has a lot to do with growing up with Annie and learning what his family did to hears and how unjust it was. And learning from the other kids in his classes what the Dragonborn did to their families. He sees what happened was wrong, but he still wants to be a dragon rider. He wants to eventually be their leader so he can make sure that things never can return to how it was.
There is a romantic sub-subplot, but it's not between Annie and Lee. Which was kind of odd, because the synopsis kind of implies that there is a romance between them. It really doesn't need to be there.
This book had a lot of elements to it, that worked well together. The impending war from the survivors of the former regime, discovering what power can do to a good cause, learning what you are willing to sacrifice to keep yourself but also protect what you have built.
I am really looking forward to what the rest of the series will bring.
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