3.5 star, YA

Review: Flamefall by Rosaria Munda

Series: The Aurelian Cycle #3

Revolutionary flames ignite around Annie, Lee, and a brand new POV character in the second book of the Fireborne trilogy.

After fleeing the revolution and settling into the craggy cliffs of New Pythos, the Dragonlords are eager to punish their usurpers–and reclaim their city. Their first order of business was destroying the Callipolan food supply. Now they’re coming for the Dragonriders.

Annie is Callipolis’s new Firstrider, and while her goal has always been to protect the people, being the government’s enforcer has turned her into public enemy number one.

Lee struggles to find his place after killing kin to prove himself to a leader who betrayed him. He can support Annie and the other Guardians . . . or join the radicals who look to topple the new regime.

Griff, a lowborn dragonrider who serves New Pythos, knows he has no future. And now that Julia, the Firstrider who had protected him, is dead, he is called on to sacrifice everything for the lords that oppress his people–or to forge a new path with the Callipolan Firstrider seeking his help.

With famine tearing Callipolis apart and the Pythians determined to take back what they lost, it will be up to Annie, Lee, and Griff to decide what to fight for–and who to love.



With war on the horizon from an enemy previously thought vanquished, this society Annie and Lee live in continue to make us question what is the right decision to make in hard circumstances in Flamefall. For a story about dragons, this series and book stands out for its exploration of government and politics with the added bonus of dragons thrown into the mix.

Annie is now head of the fleet of dragons, a feat that once would not have been possible as she was born into a serf family. With such great responsibilities, she is already put to the test with the looming threat from escaped dragonlords who were now refocusing their attention on the kingdom that once was theirs.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes about Reading

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.


Hello friends! Itโ€™s been one hectic week, and this list for todayโ€™s TTT is one that took a while to gather together. This week I have compiled quotes on the love of reading and storytelling. After all, if you enjoy reading, Iโ€™m sure itโ€™s for a variety of reasons as these quotes suggest. Life can be lived through the words we read, and they most definitely shape our worldview. While my own words may not be as eloquent, I hope these quotes and/or books showcase the beauty and love I personally have for reading in my own life.

I hope you enjoy! Let me know in the comments below if any of these quotes resonate with you.

1. Familiar stories told in a whole new way

โ€œI am going to tell you a story you already know. But listen carefully, because within it is one you have never heard before.โ€

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

2. The beauty and importance of libraries

โ€œLibraries are lungs…books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.โ€

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

3. We are what we love

โ€œWe are the books we read and the things we love.โ€

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

4. A whole new world unfurling within a bookโ€™s pages

โ€œThis is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand.โ€

The Reader by Traci Chee

5. The long-lasting impact of books

โ€œThe books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.โ€

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

6. There are always more to explore

โ€œLife is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.โ€

Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

7. When my heart soars and breaks

โ€œWhen I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.โ€

Pivot Point by Kasie West

8. We leave parts of ourselves in stories

โ€œIsnโ€™t it odd how much fatter a book gets when youโ€™ve read it several times?…As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.โ€

Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

9. Love of reading propels us to great lengths

โ€œA half-read book is a half-finished love affair.โ€

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

10. Many lives lived

โ€œA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.โ€

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

If itโ€™s one thing I appreciate in life, it is this ability to share life through the power of words and the emotions invoked. Do you have any quotes about our shared love of reading that resonates with you? Please share below!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles that are Complete Sentences

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.


Morning friends! Itโ€™s been a beautiful weekend and start of the week here for me. I hope you have been enjoying yourselves as much as you can with whatever opportunities you have. I am excited to be resting a little soon as I am changing jobs end of this month so it is leaking into my overall feelings about everything at the moment. A wonderful reprieve from the last month for me.

Anyway, todayโ€™s TTT was a fun one. How many books have you come across that are a complete sentence within themselves? I personally love one-word titles but thereโ€™s just something about short sentences/questions that make for interesting titles too.

Let me know if you ever noticed some of these were full sentences! Or if you have any books you know that fit into this theme ๐Ÿ™‚

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