A review by mohit
Of Honey and Wildfires by Sarah Chorn

4.0

Of Honey and Wildfires by Sarah Chorn is a lyrical and emotional experience of grief, sorrow, and love.

The Prose is descriptive of emotions. The author's imagination of portraying human emotions from nature's beauty deserves credit. This makes it a beautiful reading experience through the book, as sorrow expressed with nature's beauty is something I have never read, and it's well done. There are chapters that develop a character from childhood as flashbacks and chapters which happen in present.
It's a mix of First-person and Third.
These chapters progress alongside with a good pace throughout and travel to the present.

The characters get a good amount of time to develop and grow the relationships between them. There are characters to root for in the book. The reading experience with the characters shows grief at a very high level filled with love.

The world is small and enough for the story. It has geographically separated societies. It has horses and trains too.

The magic system is soft which makes it simple to focus on other aspects of the story. It is the basis of societies of rich and poor in it.

Anyone who wants to read a book full of emotions with nature as a part of it. When you know the end is heartbreaking but you want to carry on and read to know what lies ahead for the characters and their relationship at the end.

The Chapter's time-lining of Past Story with Present is done precisely well and reminded me of the time-lining of the movie Dunkirk.

The second book in this series(Songs of Sefate) – Glass Rhapsody is releasing on 30th June 2021. I have pre-ordered the e-book at $0.99/₹74 and looking forward to reading it.