Fire

     Fire, the second book in the Graceling series, disappointed me. I was really looking forward to reading about Katsa and Po again, as most series would do, but instead, Kristin Cashore practically created a whole new story. Technically, it still mentions Katsa and Po's world, but only briefly, and the characters, Katsa and Po, are not even in this story! Also, the entire book is sort of like a flashback, which was interesting but did irk me, because I was expecting a book series where events would occur in chronological order. *SPOILER ALERT* In Graceling, Katsa killed King Leck, and in the next book, Fire, Leck is in almost the entire story, but as a child. I thought that this was going to be an interesting way to give the background information, but it wasn't really cool, it was just annoying. Also, I did not like the endings for either book, Graceling or Fire, because of the terrible endings in each. I personally think that Kristin Cashore finds it amusing to make the reader fall in love with the characters, then, at the end, make them suffer through their favorite character's slow, painful death.:(
     Ok, I am glad to get that out of my system...sorry for ranting, guys. Despite my dislike for the order of events and some of the events themselves in Graceling and Fire, I did enjoy each book individually, (obviously besides the endings) but they just did not seem to go well together. Against my better judgment, I am going to start reading the final book in the series, Bitterblue, which will hopefully tie the stories together and help me to make some sense out of the chaotic order of events. Hopefully Kristin Cashore does not stick to her pattern of tragic endings.



Reading Log:

Fire, Kristin Cashore
8/28 - 150 min.
8/29 - 90 min.