Promised in Fire
Jasmine Walt
Overall: 4/5
Plots and Themes: 4/5
Characters: 3/5
Writing Style: 4/5
Attention Grabbing: 4/5
Promised in Fire is a new series by Jasmine Walt about dragons and fae and everything you ever want in a fantasy romance. Adara was raised as a water fae in an earth fae kingdom and she has been bullied her whole life for it. She's never fit in and never known the father who had granted her those powers. She's never even had much capability with water to even call herself much of a water fae. She wants to be a soldier, but in the trials she accidentally unleashes fire powers she had no idea that she possessed and puts herself and her mother in danger.
Enter Einar, the last of the dragons who had been wiped out of the dimension by a violent war twenty years earlier. He's the last barrier between the rest of his kind in the other dimension and the violence of the fae. When he meets Adara, he is determined to hate her simply for being fae. He has slumbered for two decades and her presence forced him to accept the progression of time and the changes in the world. He agrees to help her master the fire powers if she can find someone to help him go back to sleep. It's a tenuous agreement, complicated by the fact that they are fated to be together and she has no idea.
I liked it for a starting point, though there were definitely problems at the end that made me cringe. I also don't know how I feel about the age difference between them, is it made okay by the fact that he slept for twenty years? I don't know it's kind of a gray sketchy area. But all in all, it was pretty entertaining and I'd definitely stick around for the second book.
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