I was a little worried about Fire. A second book is often not great. Also, when talking to people who had read Fire, they seemed ambivalent. Or at least less gushy than they had when they talked about Graceling.
Sure enough, I had a hard time getting into Fire. It started slowly. In those first 100 pages or so, I was just waiting for them to connect the dots between the graceling who started the story and the people in Fire’s world. Once I let go of that, and once Fire made her way to King City, I settled into the story and ended up liking it BETTER than Graceling. I think I like monsters better than the gracelings. Or maybe I just liked Fire more than I liked Katsa.
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