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A review by nightjar656
Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.75
4.75 stars, rounded up.
I really enjoyed this! Ingrid was such an interesting character and reading her internal struggle throughout different points of her life was really cool. I also loved the author's perspective on different types of love- as an aro person, a story like this one where the happy ending involves a break up and a QPR, and where two characters deciding to be friends is an important milestone for them, a book like this means a lot. I loved the side characters too- Ingrid's complicated relationship with her father, her sometimes rocky friendship with Charlotte, everything developing with Alex, and Linden's internal strife all added so many layers to the book and really enhanced the story. One of the coolest things about this book is that it's set in a different world, but it almost felt like magical realism in a historical setting- the magic in this is pretty much exclusively limited to flare and flicker. That's not a criticism though- the way flare was handled in the world and the systems set up worked wonderfully as both a criticism of our world and as a magic system.
TL;DR: I thought this was really good.
I really enjoyed this! Ingrid was such an interesting character and reading her internal struggle throughout different points of her life was really cool. I also loved the author's perspective on different types of love- as an aro person, a story like this one where the happy ending involves a break up and a QPR, and where two characters deciding to be friends is an important milestone for them, a book like this means a lot. I loved the side characters too- Ingrid's complicated relationship with her father, her sometimes rocky friendship with Charlotte, everything developing with Alex, and Linden's internal strife all added so many layers to the book and really enhanced the story. One of the coolest things about this book is that it's set in a different world, but it almost felt like magical realism in a historical setting- the magic in this is pretty much exclusively limited to flare and flicker. That's not a criticism though- the way flare was handled in the world and the systems set up worked wonderfully as both a criticism of our world and as a magic system.
TL;DR: I thought this was really good.