A review by angelic712
The Fires by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir, Larissa Kyzer

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

The writing was a 4.5 but the story, for me, was as a 1.5. I was expecting an action based disaster story.  Instead it was a relationship drama where a selfish woman uses her knowledge of volcanoes as a metaphor for the disaster her life becomes when she picks an affair with a selfish and childish man over her stable and caring husband and father of her children culminating in the death of her youngest and herself.