Duel of Fire

Don't start reading this late at night thinking you can just read a few chapters and put it down! I stayed up way too late, devouring the story of Dara, a young woman trying to establish herself as a professional duelist. Set in the mountaintop kingdom of Vertigon, the world of the duelists is fasci......more

I would've loved this book but it was too slow for me.......more

This is definitely a slow burn. For some reason I assumed the dueling would be overshadowed by the danger and threats to the peace sooner, but dueling remained the primary plot until the end while the (frankly fascinating) politics and the real danger were mostly subplot, as well as the romance. The......more

I'm honestly very very very pleasantly surprised by how this book turned out. I picked it up because it sounded interesting enough, but I haven't been blown away by any YA books recently and therefore haven't felt compelled to write any reviews for them. But then this book came along First and forem......more

Not bad, not bad. Will read on.......more