Armentrout’s (who also writes YA and adult romance novels) in that the romance details are a little more “spicy” than the typical YA novel.

Her style reminds me a lot of Jennifer L. Jordan’s writing: when you read her young adult novels it’s obvious that she writes adult romance novels. So while the plot is nothing overtly original, when you strip it down to the basic premise the world it takes place in was interesting for me and that is what held my attention. Jordan does this part of the book very well. I don’t particularly like werewolf books so it was a nice change to read about dragons–and Ms. It isn’t everyday that a novel targeted for girls features dragons and as much as I dislike Jacinda, I liked that she was the paranormal creature for once and not her love interest. If you ignore the love-struck whinny heroine, the premise of the book is really neat. Part of the reason is the overall concept of the book. I just did not like her and that really throws me off a series–especially when it’s that character telling the story from a first person POV so you have to spend time in their head.īut because I was younger when I read Firelight, I actually didn’t mind it. Perhaps the most redeeming quality to her is that she cares for her family–occasionally. She’s vain, selfish, hypocritical and simply annoying. Jacinda is a very hard character to like. If I were to read Firelight now, I probably would enact my 50-page rule and drop this series all because of Jacinda. This means I was still a teenager and my threshold level for idiotic heroines was a lot higher than it is now. I started this series right when Firelight came out. And to an extent it was–but it is important to start this review from the start.

I actually contemplated not reading the last book (Hidden) when I had it in my hands (for the 5th time it seemed) but when I saw the size of it, I knew I could read it in 2 hours and 2 hours to finish a series I invested double the time into was “worth” it. It took me a really long time to finish the series. Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal There is a spin-off novella that takes place after Hiddencalled Breathless

# of Books: 3 (Firelight, Vanish, Hidden)

Firelight by sophie jordan