Week 16 Review: Fireborne

From Goodreads:

Game of Thrones meets Red Rising in a debut young adult fantasy that's full of rivalry, romance... and dragons.

The brutal revolution that overthrew the Dragonlords may have orphaned Annie and Lee, but it's brought new hope to their city. Now anyone--including the lowborn--can have wealth, an education, and even test into the governing class of dragonriders.

Aristocratic by birth and with his identity concealed, Lee's confidence and air of power have made him a rising star in the very regime that slaughtered his family. Annie, a former serf, is as bold a rider as they come--in the air. On the ground, she struggles with self-doubt.

Now, after seven years of friendship, Annie and Lee are rivals for the top position in the city's fleet. All the riders have been preparing to lead their people into the future, yet no one is ready when survivors from the Dragonlord families resurface with dragons of their own, bent on reclaiming the city.

With war looming and their relationship growing, Annie and Lee will both have to confront wavering loyalties. Lee will be forced to choose between killing the only family he has left, or betraying everything he's come to believe in, while Annie will have to decide whether to protect the boy she loves . . . or step up to be the champion her city needs.

My Review:
This was a really fantastic read! This series has recently been making the rounds on booktube, and it sounded interesting, so I had to check it out (that it turned out that I owned a hardcover of it was something that I learned after I read it but before I made this review.) And oh, I really enjoyed reading this book! 

This world of dragons and their riders, of this city that overthrew the Dragonlords, was so interesting to read! That Annie lost her family to a dragonlord, and Lee is the son of said dragonlord, yeah things are really complicated, and I couldn't get enough! 

Most of this book is the competitions that their class is undergoing to determine who will be the leader. There were some really fantastic action scenes (dragons and flying are so cool) as well as the politics, because there's the whole revolt thing, and some of the lingering prejudices and injustices. The system that was devised, yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's rigged in some capacity which is pretty infuriating. 

I'm really hoping that he didn't kill his cousin. We didn't get to see the end of the fight, just that he had her helmet, so I'm really hoping that he showed mercy, espcailly since he wasn't meant to survive afterwards, even if he'd won. Fingers crossed! 

This was a fantastic read, and I can't wait to continue on in this world! 

Author: Rosaria Munda
Series: The Aurelian Cycle #1
Read: April 19th, 2023
Source: Bought/Library
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Book and a WTC Book!
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: October 15th 2019

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars