Fire by Kristin Cashore

I think this may be my new favorite book! It has just the right amount of action and romance. Scratch Bella and her all-dependent personality type.  Check out this book and become a fan of Fire, an independent fighter who doesn't want to become entagled in a romance but can't deny the feelings she has for one particular prince. The romance buds slowly (just the right amount of slow for you to be drawn in) as Fire and the supporting characters are in the middle of war.  You might be thinking, War? I don't think, so.  However, the reader never actually reads a "war" scene.  Cashore gives accounts of the war only through other characters who come to Fire. 

This book is chock full of everything I look for in a book. As I started the epilogue, a sinking feeling in my stomach began to form.  I wanted this book to continue and hoped that other pages would pop up that I hadn't noticed before.   

You can read this book without reading Graceling, but you would go out and buy Graceling right after you finished Fire, anyway.  Go out and get them both!

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