#booktour Fireborn by Aisling Fowler (#bookreview)

August 17, 2021

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Today I bring you a middle grade fantasy, Fireborn by Aisling Fowler, it is my stop for The Write Reads.

Publisher: Harper Collins

Length: 384 Pages

Publishing: 30th September 2021

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Blurb

Lyra. Lucy. Percy. Once in a generation, a hero emerges whose story enthralls readers worldwide.

Fireborn is an epic quest, perfect for fans of the His Dark Materials and The School for Good and Evil series, that will spin readers into a magical world like no other--and introduce them to an unforgettable new heroine named Twelve.

Ember is full of monsters.

Twelve gave up her name and identity to train in the art of hunting them--so she says. The truth is much more deadly: she trains to take revenge on those who took her family from her.

But when Twelve's new home is attacked, she'll find herself on an unexpected journey, where her hidden past is inescapably intertwined with her destiny--and the very fate of her world.

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My Review:

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First of all I want to let it known that I actually was dreaming about this book last night. I can't say exactly what I was dreaming about as it's a spoiler and yes my reviews tend to have some spoilers in them I'm not going to give away the major events. So let's just say that I will be keeping my eyes peeled for the next book, I'm assuming there is going to be a book two.

Twelve is at the Hunters Lodge, her family, her village have been all murdered and destroyed. So having no where else to go she ends up there. At the Hunters Lodge you are trained form young huntlings to full on hunters, who help all the clans in fighting monsters and other creatures. The catch with the this group is that you are to leave your past behind, who you were, your family, your feuds, your name. And after you finally have your blooding you become a full hunter and chose your own name.

Twelve doesn't want to make any friends, even when timid Seven tries so very hard to be kind to her. She doesn't want to connect with anyone. Hope is something she wants nothing of. She's not there to be a hunter, she wants the skills to get revenge on the cave clan who murdered her family.

After getting in to a fight with Five, her enemy in the lodge both are to spend a night in the dungeons and that is when it all starts to happens. She wakes to commotion and goblins coming up through the tunnels. Lucky for her she has her best friend, Widge, a tiny squirrel to help get her the keys to get out.

This was a fanatic book, a tad slow in the start but once we got into the tick of it, it nonstop action. A kid has been taken from the lodge during the attack, the hunters don't seem to be doing anything Twelve takes it upon herself to go out and find them. Two other huntlings have the same idea, and together they disgruntling work together facing monsters, and each other, to find the student who has been kidnapped.

Fireborn is well written and exciting. Middle graders will enjoy this and well so will adults (I'm one).

There was one twist that I did not see coming, involving a character that I was liking and boy was I wrong. I was so happy to see talking trees, but then I wasn't can't tell you why because it's a spoiler.

There is one overall main lesson in this story and that's, it's never too late to be the person you want to become. Fully grown adults like myself can learn from that too.

So if you like animal companions, rivals having to work together, monsters, talking trees, characters that grow and find themselves then be sure to pick up your own copy of Fireborn.

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Thank you The Write Reads and Harper Collins for the chance to read and review this book.

Now let's meet our author:

Aisling was born in 1985 and wishes that she had grown up in a magical, mountainous kingdom, but was actually raised in Surrey on a diet of books and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her early ‘adventure’ stories involved surprisingly little action and her first novel (3 pages long) was politely declined by publishers at age 11. After earning a BSc in Biology and working as a support worker and then a nurse, the idea for her debut novel, Fireborn, came to her as she moved back and forth between London and the US. Now based in Hackney, when she is not reading or writing, Aisling loves cooking and plotting adventures (for herself as well as her fictional characters). Fireborn will be published by HarperCollins in 2021.