Fierce Like a Firestorm (Wicked Like a Wildfire, #2)

by Lana Popovic

[ladygrey]

I don’t think i liked this book. If I still have stars, this would probably get two. Not because it’s badly written, I just didn’t enjoy it.

It’s short and still I skimmed a good bit. Past the flowery descriptions (especially in Death’s kingdom), through the parts I didn’t care about that I knew weren’t moving the story forward. But there was a story and there were new elements and there were revealings.

I think mostly I didn’t like it because it’s sad. For all that it tries to be about beauty there is no wonder or joy or triumph or fun in it. Even the good things from before are lost or tarnished in the end. I stayed outside for hours, long after Luka left. He squeezed my hand in parting, but didn’t try to kiss me or speak. We weren’t each other’s to kiss—not more, though maybe someday..

They say someday but her relationship with Luka is destroyed because he abandoned her as quickly as she abandoned him. He was the sweet, stay, bright spot in her that kept the story interesting. And Fjlor is gone to an endless quiet and darkness existence when he was at least interesting. All his untruths and manipulations kept the story from being boring and oddly made it easy to like him.

It doesn’t matter that they won the battle or defeated the bad guy because everything even slightly good is gone. There’s only a sad, hollow world left and that’s a terrible way to end a story.