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A review by dandelia
Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift
4.0
TW: Mentions of drugs and their abuse
This was so much fun!
- I didn't really have high expectations for this book so I was positively surprised at how much I enjoyed reading it. The writing style is very comfortable, the witty banter was executed almost perfectly and the action scenes were pretty good
- Adraa is our main girl and so, so cool! She is very loyal to her people as a princess but also anxious about her upcoming ceremony in which she has to perform all nine kinds of magic in the world of Wickery. Furthermore, she interrogates a crime ring in her home country and is very focused on finding out how to help her city and admirable in that way. It's very easy to like and root for her as well as Jatin, our sweet ice-boy☺️
Jatin is such a sweetheart. He spent 10 years of his life in an academy to train his abilities and the minute he meets his fiancée Adraa (although he thinks she is someone else for some time) he falls for her and its so cute. While Adraa is very pragmatic and not that romantic, Jatins thoughts are full with her and its beautiful. I do think the balance was off some times and Jatin as a character couldn't really develop but it was still nice to see how different Jatin and Adraa were
- The plot itself was okay, it wasn't very original I have to say and the magic system was interesting but not impressive in my opinion
*I can't say anything about the cultural aspects in this book since they are heavily inspired and based on Indian and South-Asian culture I don't belong to but I am glad the author did try to explain why she wrote the book this way in her author's note
This was so much fun!
- I didn't really have high expectations for this book so I was positively surprised at how much I enjoyed reading it. The writing style is very comfortable, the witty banter was executed almost perfectly and the action scenes were pretty good
- Adraa is our main girl and so, so cool! She is very loyal to her people as a princess but also anxious about her upcoming ceremony in which she has to perform all nine kinds of magic in the world of Wickery. Furthermore, she interrogates a crime ring in her home country and is very focused on finding out how to help her city and admirable in that way. It's very easy to like and root for her as well as Jatin, our sweet ice-boy☺️
Jatin is such a sweetheart. He spent 10 years of his life in an academy to train his abilities and the minute he meets his fiancée Adraa (although he thinks she is someone else for some time) he falls for her and its so cute. While Adraa is very pragmatic and not that romantic, Jatins thoughts are full with her and its beautiful. I do think the balance was off some times and Jatin as a character couldn't really develop but it was still nice to see how different Jatin and Adraa were
- The plot itself was okay, it wasn't very original I have to say and the magic system was interesting but not impressive in my opinion
*I can't say anything about the cultural aspects in this book since they are heavily inspired and based on Indian and South-Asian culture I don't belong to but I am glad the author did try to explain why she wrote the book this way in her author's note