{"id":806,"date":"2021-07-04T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2021-07-11T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T12:17:39","slug":"fire-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Fire with Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Destiny Soria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this book we follow Eden and Dani, two sisters who are also training to become dragon slayers. In this modern world, dragons are reduced to myths and legends, but they do still exist in very low numbers. They are very dangerous and the slayers\u2019s job is to basically make sure they go extinct. But when Dani, who\u2019s the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 slayer yet a lot less invested in the cause than her sister, ends up with some unheard-of soul-bond to a dragon called Nyx, things change drastically. Not only does she learn that the truths she\u2019s been told about dragons may be complete lies, but she\u2019s also forced to choose between the dragon and her own family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going into this book, I had such high hopes. The premise sounded amazing. Dragons in the real world? Sibling rivalry, dragon friends, sorcerers and magic? It seemed to tick all the boxes for an amazing read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was, however, very disappointed, and to be honest seriously bored reading this book. Nothing happened. It was just sitting down talking between friends and family and bantering and scenes possibly meant to build characters and relationships, but it felt one-dimensional, repetitive and incredibly slow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was so much focus on the slow and honestly unnecessary everyday chitchat between characters that the main plot and the things that were actually interesting got buried so deep that it was impossible for me to get invested in the story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I can\u2019t say more than this. I\u2019m super disappointed and I found the characters bland and boring. The only highlight of this book was the dragon Nox, he was funny and interesting and the best character in the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three stars for premise, dragons and the writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Destiny Soria In this book we follow Eden and Dani, two sisters who are also training to become dragon slayers. In this modern world, dragons are reduced to myths and legends, but they do still exist in very low numbers. They are very dangerous and the slayers\u2019s job is to basically make sure they go extinct. But when Dani, who\u2019s the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 slayer yet a lot less invested in the cause than her sister, ends up with some unheard-of soul-bond to a dragon called Nyx, things change drastically. Not only does she learn that the truths she\u2019s been told about dragons may be complete lies, but she\u2019s also forced to choose between the dragon and her own family.  Going into this book, I had such high hopes. The premise sounded amazing. Dragons in the real world? Sibling rivalry, dragon friends, sorcerers and magic? It seemed to tick all the boxes for an amazing read. I was, however, very disappointed, and to be honest seriously bored reading this book. Nothing happened. It was just sitting down talking between friends and family and bantering and scenes possibly meant to build characters and relationships, but it felt one-dimensional, repetitive and incredibly slow. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"Yes","cwp_rev_product_name":"Fire with Fire","_wppr_review_template":"default","cwp_rev_product_image":"","cwp_image_link":"image","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_pros":["Interesting premise","Okay worldbuilding","Lovely dragon"],"wppr_cons":["Extremely slow","One-dimensional characters","Plot buried in nonsense"],"wppr_rating":"36.00","wppr_options":{"1":{"name":"Overall","value":"30"},"2":{"name":"Plot","value":"35"},"3":{"name":"Writing","value":"50"},"4":{"name":"Characters","value":"35"},"5":{"name":"Ending","value":"30"}},"wppr_review_type":"Product","wppr_review_custom_fields":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikawinterlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}