by Sophie Jordan
Book: A Fire in the Sky
Publisher: Avon Books
Pub Date: September 24, 2024
Genre: Adult, Romance, Fantasy
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher
Book Links: Goodreads Amazon
New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns to the high-stakes, sweeping world of dragons, romance, and drama first evoked in her bestselling young adult Firelight series, in a brand-new epic adult romantasy series.
Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying.
But human lust for power is immortal.
Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous…especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it's her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard...though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship.
When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.
The wedding night begins with unexpected passion—and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride...but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors—secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone.
Magic is not dead...it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it.
My Review: YES! Sophie brought us dragons again. I absolutely LOVED her Firelight series and was beyond excited to see her bring dragons back.
I have been reading everything by Sophie for many many years now and she always deliver, especially when it comes to romance.
Now to the book...
Tamsyn has grown up with royalty and did everything with the princesses as they grew up together. However, any issues they have will result in being whipped... which falls to Tamsyn and only her. A sad start, but Tamsyn is a fighter.
She will have to be after she ease drops on a conversation which then turns into her being offered up as a bride...
Tamsyn good friend Stig, is aware of this and has such hatred over this. He treasures Tamsyn and their friendship. Their friendship began on the day he showed her the wall of those who were a whipping boy/girl before her and have gone on to have lives on their own. But now? That dream may no longer be a reality.
Not much that can be done now, they are meant to head off in the morning and start the journey home. Tamsyn is about to find out just how tough she really is. When one of the men can't stand her and make an attempt to hurt Tamsyn is when her true nature broke free.
A dragon, a man burned and the beast thinking the worst about his wife. In a way you kinda almost feel for the guy, he has been kind to Tamsyn despite everything. So maybe he isn't all that bad...
Coming down from her dragon scare, Tamsyn and Thora have a quick chat. Then she makes her way through the woods and meets up with her husband. Oh and the kingdom may be in a full blown panic as well.
As the book neared the end, I couldn't put it down. I had to finish it. I absolutely adored this book and being brought back into Sophie's version of dragons. Its every bit of romance, magic and dragons that could wish for.
