Fiz|فيز (Substack link in bio)'s Reviews > We Hunt the Flame

I really wanted to love this book, but I really couldn't get into it. I loved the setting, the world building, loved the representation, but that was about it. I don't know why I am so picky when it comes to fantasy novels, because had I read this a year or two ago I think I would have loved this book but sadly I was glad to be done with it. It is pretty similar-in terms of tropes- with other children's fantasy/ young adult fantasy sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It was a predictable plot like with The Woven Kingdom it was a predictable plot with similar tropes but it works so does the Ember series however with this I felt bored reading it (I feel so bad for saying because I so wanted to love it). Definitely Arabian Nights vibe and I think because this is for the audience of children maybe that is a factor as to why I didn't overly enjoy it. Sadly didn't enjoy this book. The best thing I would say is probably the author's note and the starting when Zafira is in the forest type thing and the imagery of nature.

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'Pride was a dangerous thing'
'His mother used to say that a person without hope was a body without a soul.'