Pub. Date: January 5th 2010
Publisher: Signet
Pages: 246
Readership: Young adult
Genres: Urban Fantasy
Rating: ★★★★.5
Lily’s parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn’t bad enough, she’s hearing and seeing bizarre things on St. Sophie’s creepy campus. Her roommate, Scout, keeps her sane, but keeps disappearing at night. When one day Lily finds Scout running from real-life monsters, she learns the hard way that Scout is involved in a splinter group of rebel teens.
They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and dark magic users. It’s too bad Lily doesn’t have powers of her own to help. At least, none that she’s discovered yet…
I hadn’t even heard of this book until I accidentally got the third in the series (Charmfall) at the library. Immediately I tracked down the first two and got reading.
I thought I would like it just fine but I honestly wasn’t expecting to love it as much as I did. I figured it was just another YA Paranormal school book because there are a lot out there. Boy was I wrong.
Firespell is a well crafted, spellbinding world that had me longing to hop on a plane or a train or a bus to Chicago, stat. Parts of the book are a love story to the city.Firespell is a page turner. When I say it’s face-paced, I mean it’s fast-freaking-paced. There is not one dull moment from the Brat Pack pranking Lily to Lily and co. getting chased by Reapers to the very end. It’s a tornado of action, to put it mildly. It’s a sharp, nail biting thrill ride until the very last page.
Add to the action the characters and you have a wicked novel. I fell in love with some of them, fell in hate with others and only the strongest of books can accomplish that. I will be starting Hexbound not soon enough.
"I thought I would like it just fine but I honestly wasn’t expecting to love it as much as I did. I figured it was just another YA Paranormal school book because there are a lot out there"
ReplyDeleteExactly my feelings about it! I was surprised too! It was unique in its own way :) Need to get the next one as well. Great review ^^
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Why, thank you for making up my mind for me on Firespell. I have gone back and forth about this book every single time that I have seen it at my library. I pick it up, read the blurb(again!) and sigh, and then put it back because I have just assumed that it was the same old, same old. Obviously, I have been sadly mistaken. I do believe I will be going by the library tomorrow to pick up this series. So, thank you and hopefully I have another great read in my near future!
ReplyDeleteI loved this book! One of my favorite.
ReplyDeleteI read the book 2 !
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I have this book , too and I love it ! Thank you for the review !
ReplyDeleteThis book was and is one of my favorite books. . I have already read it . I hpe Lily and Jason will stay together. And by the way your review is amazing.
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