Today is my stop on the blog tour for Fireborn by Aisling Fowler, thank you to Write Reads Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part & thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.
Pages: 432
Synopsis: Set in the snowy northern forests of an imagined prehistoric world, Fireborn is the middle-grade debut of the decade. At turns exciting, funny and heart wrenchingly sad, it marks the introduction of an unstoppable new voice in children’s storytelling.
Twelve has spoken the Pledge and now she is a Huntling. She has given up her name to train in the art of fighting monsters and keeping the peace, and she won’t get to choose a new one until she has earned it.
But when the Lodge’s walls are breached for the first time, and a little girl is taken, Twelve is the only one interested in going after a child . . .
Teaming up with Dog, the Stone Guardian of the Lodge, Twelve ends up on an epic adventure that will change her life, her name – and her entire world.
My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
My Thoughts: this was incredible, it was fast paced yet incredibly easy to follow and really set my imaginative juices flowing! – the world building was incredible and left me with incredibly vivid images!
This gave me serious Harry Potter vibes in the best way possible, there were so many similarities but yet the story was completely different 😂
The children are referred to as numbers until they complete their training and become hunters, the story revolves around 5, 6 and 12. – 12 being the main character and I can’t tell you how thrilled I was to have a female main character who on the surface seems badass and fearless, not afraid to stand up for what she wants or believes in! (We so soon learn that even 12 has insecurities and certain things she relies on to help her through)
Anyway…. Back to 5,6 and 12, they’re on a mission to find 7 who was kidnapped when goblins broke into the school, she was the only one to be taken and no one knows why!
Throw in a stone guardian known as dog and other fantastic creatures alone the way one of them being a giant spider 😳🕷 then what you have is an adventure story that is so easy to get lost in, I finished the book in a couple of hours because I just couldn’t put it down and needed to know what was going to happen next!
The story wasn’t left on a cliffhanger as such, but felt partly ‘unfinished’ which I’m hoping means it has been left open for a sequel? I will be keeping my fingers crossed because I need more, I need to know what happens next 😂🤞🏼
🐧❤️
prdgreads 
Amazing review!
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Thank you! 🥺
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