A review by fulltimefiction
The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

3.0

This book was tiring to say the least. I started it back in May and it’s only now that I finished it. And frankly, I couldn’t stop reading in the second half. I wanted to dnf it several times so kinda glad I didn’t. I cannot stand Adare -skimmed through her chapters, eventually, it was the only only way to make it through the book. She can die for all I care. And after what she did towards the end? I was done with her. One of the worst main characters in fantasy. Also, the secondary characters were more interesting than the main ones like Pyrre, Kiel and Nira (only reason I did not skip Adare’s chapters altogether).

I really like the fantasy concept but I was barely caring at one point because of the boring plot in the first half. It was killing me till the 50% mark. Too long scenes on useless events. And the mistakes! Damn. It was too much. Did I mention how much I hated Adare? I was cringing in most of her scenes. I know now that I’ll be skimming through her chapters too in the next book if I am going to read it (very likely). I’m curious now regarding how things will turn out.