Non-Review: Fire With Fire

Fire With Fire
By Destiny Soria

Published By: Hodder and Stoughton
Publication Date: June 8, 2021
Date Abandoned: August 3, 2021
Genre: YA – Fantasy
Source: Bought
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432

From Goodreads:
Two sisters. Divided they burn.

Two sisters raised to be fierce dragon slayers end up on opposing sides of an impending war when one forms an unlikely, magical bond with a dragon, in this exciting, fresh contemporary young adult fantasy.

Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn’t be more different. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Yet they both agree on one thing: it’s kill or be killed where dragons are concerned.

Until Dani comes face-to-face with one and forges a rare and magical bond with him. As she gets to know Nox, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong. With Dani lost to the dragons, Eden turns to the mysterious and alluring sorcerers to help save her sister. Now on opposite sides of the conflict, the sisters will do whatever it takes to save the other. But the two are playing with magic that is more dangerous than they know, and there is another, more powerful enemy waiting for them both in the shadows.

Fire With Fire is a book I hadn’t really heard about until I received it in my Fairyloot subscription. When looking it up, I was super excited about this book. I am absolutely obsessed with dragons, and absolutely love books about dragons so this one sounded absolutely perfect for me. I really wish I had loved this one as much as I hoped, but unfortunately this one wasn’t for me.

I got through about 100 pages of Fire With Fire before realising it really wasn’t for me. I went into this book fully expecting a high fantasy. I was really for an epic fantastical new world that I could get lost in but that is definitely not what I got. This one is set in our normal world where dragons exist and are secretly hiding. I am a huge lover of epic fantasy books so I was a little disappointed to see this one was more of a urban fantasy.

Fire With Fire is by no means a bad book. Not at all. I just found it a little bit boring. I am very much a plot driven reader and I love fast-paced action-packed books. This is definitely more character-driven and it focuses a lot more on the relationship between the sisters and their growth than it does the storyline with the dragons. I have no doubts that many people will absolutely love this book, but unfortunately it wasn’t for me. I need more plot-driven action to keep me interested.

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