Read from December 31st 2014 - January 8th 2015.
Published October 7th 2014 by Darkling Books
Format Paperback - 215 pages
| Review | The story focusses on an 18 year old Alexandra Gold.She is half human (from her mother) and half demon (from her father) who belongs to the House of Keroz. Now, do not think of demons in this book like the vision you have of demons in your head usually, as you would have it very wrong. She can travel through portals to another universe where her father lives. Time couldn't be more different there. 2 hours on Earth equates to 2 days in the Sedu universe. Half-demon Lady Firebird of the House of Keroz has to keep up her life on Earth as a normal 18 yr old and help her father and friends stop Dirk Raum from travelling to Earth and kidnapping other young Sedu girls like herself (there seems to be a fair few) to make his army to conquer both universes. She fought and triumphed over him before when he was murdering humans whose fresh souls he fed the House of Raum. This won her the respect of some but the enmity of others. she longs to step forward as Lady Firebird, and let people know that she will protect them—but she worries that once people see her flaming hair, eyes, and long fangs, she will terrify those she wants to help. She is ready to meet the challenge; but is the world ready to meet Lady Firebird? I really took delight in reading this book.Although a set of chronicles and this one book two, I read it stand alone and was able to without feeling I was missing some vital information for the story. As the story progressed I did find it had become quite dark and remembering it is advertised as a YA plus adult read book, it did have me wondering if the topic was maybe too dark as there is reference to rape throughout most of the story. However, I was quite engrossed in this read and as I have said, enjoyed it. I did struggle to put the book down to the point of actually walking to the bathroom still reading it when I had to go. It is a great fantasy read full of strong emotion.Nice to see a strong young female lead.This seems to be getting fashionable with a lot of the latest books I have read. The book is very well written.The print is very small and tightly packed together and I questioned whether my eyes would start scanning pages and missing lines at the beginning but it didn't take anything away from the story and worked very well. This is obviously an American written book and my only quibble is that when a Sedumen girl from the UK comes into the story and goes back to London, she meets up with her mum and says "hello mom". That was clearly an oversight or not researched properly as we do not call our mother mom in the UK but again, that didn't detract from the story.I just happened to take note of it. I would definitely read it again and would recommend it to others but be aware of the dark content inside. 4 out of 5 stars given for this one. |
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