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A review by meganac
Firesong by Donna Bray, William Nicholson
5.0
"I don't want to do any of those things you said. I want - I want -to make things right."
"Then so you shall."
"Is it so easy?"
"Not easy. Not easy at all. Think how much is wanting to make things wrong. All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the loneliness that comes with the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows cold and dark and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is all muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be."
This, the above quote, is what Wind on Fire really is in just a few words. It is a story of a family and their people, and how they made their way from the muffled to the open, their progress slow and often hindered. Firesong is the last of three, and it brings the story to a beautiful and painful close. For the last twenty pages of this book, I sat and totally ignored everything around me, devouring the end. If you like fantasy, good vs. evil, and books like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings and The Paradise War, you should read these books. They're a quick/easy read and a deep, weird fantasy. This is a story you will never forget.
Light language, strong violence and gruesome content.
"Then so you shall."
"Is it so easy?"
"Not easy. Not easy at all. Think how much is wanting to make things wrong. All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the loneliness that comes with the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows cold and dark and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is all muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be."
This, the above quote, is what Wind on Fire really is in just a few words. It is a story of a family and their people, and how they made their way from the muffled to the open, their progress slow and often hindered. Firesong is the last of three, and it brings the story to a beautiful and painful close. For the last twenty pages of this book, I sat and totally ignored everything around me, devouring the end. If you like fantasy, good vs. evil, and books like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings and The Paradise War, you should read these books. They're a quick/easy read and a deep, weird fantasy. This is a story you will never forget.
Light language, strong violence and gruesome content.