lizalizard shared a tip "This wasn't great. It felt as if nothing really happened and like Cashore was just copying Graceling. I kept think about how much more interesting it would have been with literally any other character as the lead. Fire was never really doing anything but napping in the stables and thinking... She did have a really cute relationship with her horse but her defining characteristic was always being on her period. She wasn't actually but they only seemed to do anything when she was. The whole book read like a bad novela where everyone is sleeping with everyone and the "biggest" reveals are who fathered who. The book constantly talked about contraceptive but no one ever used it. And while I love the idea of casual sex and friends (no one really liked or got to know each other in this book) with benefits I couldn't stand that most of the relationships in this were between older men and minors. Kinda just wished I skipped the book :/"