Fireborne
After a revolution overthrows the dragonlords, an orphan and the surviving son of the old regime compete to lead the new order's dragon riders. A political novel about whether a just revolution stays just, with dragons. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 2 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Fourth Wing readers who want the war college with real politics behind it.
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How it rates
- Author
- Rosaria Munda
- Series
- The Aurelian Cycle, book 1 of 3 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 2/5
- Plot
- 5/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person, dual
- Ending
- No happy ending · cliffhanger
- Setting
- Callipolis, a republic built on the ashes of a dragonlord dynasty
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 464
On the spice rating Kissing at most. The tension between the leads is ideological before it is romantic. How the scale works.
Content warnings famine, execution, war, class violence.
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