Before She Ignites
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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
**Before**
Mira Minkoba is the Hopebearer. Since the day she was born, she’s been told she’s special. Important. Perfect. She’s known across the Fallen Isles not just for her beauty, but for the Mira Treaty named after her, a peace agreement which united the seven islands against their enemies on the mainland.
But Mira has never felt as perfect as everyone says. She counts compulsively. She struggles with crippling anxiety. And she’s far too interested in dragons for a girl of her station.
**After**
Then Mira discovers an explosive secret that challenges everything she and the Treaty stand for. Betrayed by the very people she spent her life serving, Mira is sentenced to the Pit–the deadliest prison in the Fallen Isles. There, a cruel guard would do anything to discover the secret she would die to protect.
No longer beholden to those who betrayed her, Mira must learn to survive on her own and unearth the dark truths about the Fallen Isles–and herself–before her very world begins to collapse.
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I want to start this review off with just a simple checklist of what you can expect:
1. dragons, dragons, and more dragons – check!
2. political intrigue – double check!
3. mystery – check!
4. amazing diverse characters – check!
5. great friendships, both old and new – check!
6. unexpected twists and turns – check!
This book was so unexpectedly amazing. I went into it excited to finally read a Jodi Meadows book and intrigued by the idea of dragon trafficking. But this book is so much more than that. The world that Mira has come to know is actually entirely different, but she comes to know this as you do, which is a refreshing plot point. I love finding out about secrets and alliances as characters do rather than through off-hand comments to keep you as the reader in the loop.
Before She Ignites completely blew me away in terms of the level of detail that went into creating both the world and the political scene around it. I absolutely loved watching as Mira tried to navigate her changing world view with the political scene as it unravelled. It was fascinating to see how other characters dealt with similar situations and how Mira as our main character navigated the tricky situations she was placed in, politically, emotionally, and even physically.
I know Jodi Meadows is notorious for cliff-hangers and horrible endings making you regret reading book one before book two (or even three is available), luckily I did not find the ending to this book to be too bad. I obviously cannot wait for the next book as this one has become a new favorite, but it was not a cruel horrible ending.
I cannot wait to see where Mira journey takes her next, plus we obviously need more dragons!
Thanks to the publisher for an early copy
