haunted_air 's review for:

Fire by Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren

4.0

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I enjoyed this way more than the first book, which, while a good introduction to the series, I found a bit slow at times. I think a lot of it was because that book was mostly about setting up the story, the world and the characters. All of that definitely paid off and I thought Fire was more balanced when it came to the main plot vs the characters' personal lives. Also, it was great to read from the point of view of all of the main characters, it was more or less evenly split between the five girls. I get why this was different in the first installment, but it was still odd to get so much from some of them and almost nothing from others. I suspect how much we saw of each of them depended on how accepting and involved they were with their magic and working together. They definitely became a team in this novel and the stakes got even higher. I'm excited to see where things are going. thankfully I have the next volume so I'll find out soon.