Fireborne: 1 (Aurelian Cycle)

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You aren't left waiting for what's next because Munda is always giving you something new right away.

I highly recommend this book to all ages, but if you are an older reader who still enjoys YA, go pick this up!I loved everything about this book: it’s exciting, it’s philosophical; it’s hopeful; it’s dark; it’s full of dragons and politics; it’s romantic in that grand, heroic tradition, without downplaying the ugly reality of governance and revolution and war. The narrative truly makes you feel deep empathy for both Lee and Annie's life circumstances and gives you true pause when considering what to believe about the world they inhabit.

The shouting is cheerful, the [rebels] eager to set out into the night to leave gifts of bread on the steps of the unsuspecting poor…. This is so brilliant, and I cannot believe I'm not seeing enough people hype this title up because I had so much trouble putting Fireborne down. Annie's sobs are drilling into me, that particular sound that I'm primed, from so many years ago, to respond to.Aside from the reason listed above, I would say half of the reason that I adore this book is the writing itself. There’s this moment in Flamefall, the second book in Rosaria Munda’s Aurelian trilogy, where the protagonist asks one of the leaders of a scrappy band of rebel freedom fighters what they’re fighting for. I wanted to imagine an orphaned aristocrat who has every reason to seek revenge, until he realizes that maybe, his family did wrong, too. Not that anyone has inquired, but if EYE were goingto run a resistance organization, what I’d do is create two separate groups that would appear to be in opposition to each other but secretly they’d be working in concert, and one of the groups would be the nonviolent resistance guys with very clearly articulated policy proposals and a squeaky clean religious leader at its head and the other group would espouse the rhetoric of burning everything down, which they would back up by burning down high-profile targets sometimes, so the ruling class would be very afraid that if they didn’t implement the nonviolent guys’ policy proposals, they’d instead get burned down by the violent guys, so they’d be like, well we won’t talk to you violent jerks, but we’ll talk to these other guys who share some of your less radical goals and seem like they wouldn’t burn down a school, and that’s how I would get my own way in the end, if I were in charge of The Resistance.

The story starts nine years after a bloody uprising against the triarchy, the dragonborn families (i. she wanted to break the stereotype that people had about Serfs (lowborns) and make a name for herself but at the same time she found it difficult to do so because of her bond with lee, who is a highborn. The world isn't black and white, and far too often people (myself included) try to filter the world into that dichotomy. Recommended for both teens and adults who enjoy a mentally stimulating novel and for those who wish to lose themselves in a world full of dragons. Annie's lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee's aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries.As for dragons, you're probably wondering "this book has dragons, there is a dragon on a cover, why are you not mentioning the dragons? In this explosive conclusion to the epic trilogy that began with Fireborne, Annie and Lee are fighting for their lives—and for each other—as invading dragonfire threatens to burn their home to the ground. What would a society look like that granted political power unequally according to intelligence, rather than unequally according to birthright? Someone charismatic can be in charge, and I will be the shadowy advisor who comes up with practical ways to achieve their lofty idealistic goals.

Told from multiple points of view this fantasy is one of young dragonriders dealing with a world with plenty of political intrigue with a small bit of romance added into the mix. In all honesty, the book had few "interesting" moments when you thought something would happen and you turned the page and.At the same time the story works as a close, intimate tale of friends who have been through fire together and what they will do for each other. our mains lee sur power and antigone sur aela both so layered in both their own orphaned backstories yet led to them being in the same orphanage together, the events entangles their bond and loyalty to one another. The dragonlords are overthrown and a new regime takes over who dismantles the feudal system and institutes a new system of government with the goal of making things more fair and equal.