Ignite Series: The Phoenix Flame #1 Published by Enclave Publishing on August 20, 2024
Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Animals / Mythical Creatures, Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / General, Young Adult Fiction / Religious / Christian / Fantasy
Pages: 352
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Goodreads
Can Mara survive in a world where the fire in her veins is worth killing for?
In a frozen wasteland suffocating beneath a dying sun, Mara is a young phoenix raised by her father to explode at his command. He's the only one who can help her control her fire, and Mara desperately follows his orders to protect their phoenix family from relentless human hunters.
Her sheltered existence is shattered when her family mysteriously vanishes, thrusting Mara into a perilous quest to find them. Along the way, she unravels a devastating truth: her people may not be the innocent victims she's been taught to believe.
When she comes face-to-face with the kindhearted Eli, she begins to wonder if the humans aren't the monsters she's always feared. What if the greatest danger doesn't lie in the icy world outside--but in the truth of who Mara really is?
Fire and ice collide in this thrilling tale of a phoenix girl born with the power of a dying sun.
Review:
Ignite is the first in a new series by the talented author Kara Swanson. I fell in love with this author’s descriptive writing in her first two books, dust, and Shadow, and now we enter a world of Phoenixes. I did not read any book where the whole story is about phoenixes, and now we have an amazing one. Mara is an interesting character. When we first meet her, she is so scared of her powers and frightened of the frozen world she is striving to keep her flock safe in. Knowing very little about where she comes from or about the power that her father is trying to hone, she is forced to learn so much when her flock is stolen while she goes in a desperate attempt to get them plants to keep them healthy. I was engrossed in this story from the first page to the end. It only took me a couple of days to read it as I needed to know how Mara was going to save her flock. The ending leaves you hungry for the next installment.
About Kara Swanson
As the daughter of missionaries, Kara Swanson spent her childhood running barefoot through the lush jungles of Papua New Guinea. Able to relate with characters dropped into a unique world, she quickly fell in love with the fantasy genre.
The award-winning author of The Girl Who Could See, Dust and Shadow (Heirs of Neverland Duology) Kara guides aspiring authors in telling powerful stories as an author coach and faculty member of the Young Writers Workshop and Author Program alongside Brett Harris.
Kara is passionate about crafting stories of light shattering darkness, connecting with readers–and taming her own pet Neverbeast. Kara chats about coffee, fairy tales, and bookish things online.
