Fire

This is one of my all-time favorite books and it gets better with every reread. I can't help but love what and who Fire loves, and she loves so much and so many. I think that's sort of the overall theme of this book, love in all it's forms and all the ways it changes us. Fire grows up lonely and afraid of herself, and despite all the tragedy in this book, I can't help but find hope in the journey she goes on, one that ultimately ends in an expansive family that adores her and the knowledge that she is capable of more love than cruelty. Every part of this book destroyed me, but the relationship between the royal siblings the most. Nash and Brigan especially. When Nash tells Fire that he loves his brother more than he realized before she came along... Yeah, I cried like a baby. Generally, this is a story that is as much about family as it is about monsters.