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Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
I adored the first book in this series, Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves. The sequel, Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame, is well-written but didn’t appeal to me personally as much.
In Cold the Night, the novel focused mainly on the heroine Sena and her new wolf-friend Iska competing in a cross-country dogsled race on a frozen planet. I’m a huge fan of wolves, adventure stories, and frozen landscapes, so it felt like the book was written just for me.
Swift the Storm takes us to a jungle planet, and gives us a new narrator, Remy. Remy appeared in the first novel, and she takes Sena and Iska with her to this new planet Maraas to try to find a friend she lost two years ago.
I found this one harder to get into. I’m not normally a huge fan of crime syndicate stories and stories of double crossing and corporate politics, so the emphasis on alliances and betrayals was less interesting for me than the survival focus of the first book. There’s also a lot of time spent on Remy thinking back to her previous failed missing and the lost of her friend, Alora.
I wound up deciding not to finish this one at the halfway point, unfortunately. It’s not a bad book, and I think it will find an audience among people who love a good YA spy/sci-fi story. But I found after a few weeks of letting it sit, I just wasn’t looking forward to continuing.
Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for my review copy of this book.
In Cold the Night, the novel focused mainly on the heroine Sena and her new wolf-friend Iska competing in a cross-country dogsled race on a frozen planet. I’m a huge fan of wolves, adventure stories, and frozen landscapes, so it felt like the book was written just for me.
Swift the Storm takes us to a jungle planet, and gives us a new narrator, Remy. Remy appeared in the first novel, and she takes Sena and Iska with her to this new planet Maraas to try to find a friend she lost two years ago.
I found this one harder to get into. I’m not normally a huge fan of crime syndicate stories and stories of double crossing and corporate politics, so the emphasis on alliances and betrayals was less interesting for me than the survival focus of the first book. There’s also a lot of time spent on Remy thinking back to her previous failed missing and the lost of her friend, Alora.
I wound up deciding not to finish this one at the halfway point, unfortunately. It’s not a bad book, and I think it will find an audience among people who love a good YA spy/sci-fi story. But I found after a few weeks of letting it sit, I just wasn’t looking forward to continuing.
Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for my review copy of this book.