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| Firelight #1 |
Pages: 323
Rating: 1.5/5
A hidden truth. Mortal enemies. Doomed love.
With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki--the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms. But when Jacinda's rebelliousness forces her family to flee into the human world, she struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. The one thing that revives it is the gorgeous, elusive Will, whose family hunts her kind. Jacinda can't resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she's risking not only her life but the draki's most closely guarded secret.
Mythical powers and breathtaking romance ignite in this story of a girl who defies all expectations and whose love crosses an ancient divide.
Looking at the premise this book it comes across as being a potentially good read. I mean it contains dragons and who doesn't love dragons! But more than that the draki (dragonesque people) take centre stange, a mythology that I haven't yet read in a book. So it should've a breath of fresh air among the vampires, angels and mermainds. Unfortunately, rather than play to this point I felt that the mythology was a bit of tack-on. Don't get me wrong the mythology is actually very well thought out and detailed, you could really believe that there are communities of draki hidden among us but what got to me was it wasn't the focus of the book. For the most part it was a bad rewrite of a Romeo & Juliet story.
The main girl, Jacinda, is a draki but not just any draki she is the first fire-breather in hundreds of years and is slated to marry the pride (draki community) prince, Cassian, and make lots of fire breathing babies. One day she decides to go flying during the day, a big no-no in the pride as you know humans might see her. And of course she is seen but by the worst type of human in a draki's eye, hunters, people who find, trap and kill her kind for money. But just when she thinks she's a goner, the hunter who finds her decides to let her live and leads the others away. Can you see where this is going? Now in big toruble with the pride her mother decides to pack her and her sister up and leave the pride for good, taking her to a small dessert town near Las Vegas in the hope that the dry, hot conditions will kill her draki. Enrolled in the high school in the town who does she come across, the hunter that saved her, Will. Boy meets girl insta-love occurs, boredom kicks in and bye bye much of the draki storyline.
Jacinda is one of the most annoying female characters I have ever read. Seriously, she is a selfish whiny biatch. All she ever thinks about is herself and how much she hates her mum and sisterr for dragging her there and trying to kill her draki. How dare they?! But lets not forget that she doesn't tell them the town in swaming with a family of hunters, that she's in love with one, and oh Cassian has found their hiding spot and wants her to return to the pride with him. You know, no biggie at all, it's not like there's any chance of you being killed....oh wait. Other than being completely whiny and selfish, she also can't make up her damn mind. I love Will and I want to be with him but I can't because he's a hunter but oh well I'm going to make out with him anyway and secretly meet up with him. I hate the pride, my lack of freedom there and I want to get away from it but I want to be there again becuase that's where I belong. I hate my mum and sister for bringing me here but I can't hate them because they like it and finally fit in. Seriously girl, make up you god damn mind becuase at this point I want to slap you over the head and tell you to get your shit together.
Will is boring and quite frankly a bit stalkerish. I cared nothing for him and didn't think he had any chemistry with Jacinda what-so-ever. Really there's not much else to say. Oh he's kinda dumb becuase he's meant to have a spidey-sense for draki but can't tell Jacinda is one when she's sitting right next to him...must be the "chemistry" between them or it could be bad chicken, my bet is on the chicken though and that's the reason he's instanly fallen in love with her without knowing a damn thing about her. Ditto to you to Jacinda.
Really, the only saving grace was Cassian. He was kinda cool and much more interesting than Will.
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