A trilogy is a trilogy, right? Wrong. Book one comes first, then book two and sha-bam! Book three rounds it out to a trilogy finish, right? Nope. I read Graceling, the first in this trilogy and then dove into Fire. My dive felt like a head-first run into a brick wall. Fire is not a sequel or second book of anything - Fire is a completely new novel - with the exception of one character who falls into this world and then falls out. Not a second book at all, Fire, is a parallel book and it took me longer than I'd like to admit to forgive it for not having Po or Katsa from Graceling. If I can set aside my incorrect assumptions and expectations, Fire is...
This book holds the distinction of being a very controversial book at the Elmvale Branch. Within a month or less of being on our shelves, an adult reader had taken it home to read. She brought it back and cautioned us that two pages had been ripped out. Why? Because it crossed a line you don't normally cross in Young Adult books. But more about that later...I've got to get you to read to the end of my review somehow, right? I found the first half of this book to be...
