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Fireborne: 1 (Aurelian Cycle)

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It reassured me in the sense that there really aren’t easy answers to the question “How can we fix the world?

Not that anyone has inquired, but if EYE were goingto run a resistance organization, what I’d do is create two separate groups that would appear to be in opposition to each other but secretly they’d be working in concert, and one of the groups would be the nonviolent resistance guys with very clearly articulated policy proposals and a squeaky clean religious leader at its head and the other group would espouse the rhetoric of burning everything down, which they would back up by burning down high-profile targets sometimes, so the ruling class would be very afraid that if they didn’t implement the nonviolent guys’ policy proposals, they’d instead get burned down by the violent guys, so they’d be like, well we won’t talk to you violent jerks, but we’ll talk to these other guys who share some of your less radical goals and seem like they wouldn’t burn down a school, and that’s how I would get my own way in the end, if I were in charge of The Resistance. The shouting is cheerful, the [rebels] eager to set out into the night to leave gifts of bread on the steps of the unsuspecting poor…. This story centers around Annie and Lee, two orphaned survivors of a great revolution that brought about the end of the ruling Barron class of dragon riders in favor of a 'communist' system. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven years of training have made them rivals for the top position in the dragonriding fleet. Lee and Annie, tight friends, both misunderstood the other's reaction--and when the reader realizes it, the game alters.By the end of this one the action certainly picked up but I would have loved for that to have happen much sooner. Our heroes not only stand up and fight for what they believe in, but they also make mistakes and bad decisions while doing so. The world isn't black and white, and far too often people (myself included) try to filter the world into that dichotomy. Lee and Annie remain idealists in this book, as they were in the previous one, but they discover very clearly that high ideals are not a trustworthy protection against benefiting from unequal systems.

Annie spends the majority of the book being offended/annoyed/worried or whatever by something Lee did, did not do, how he moved his muscle or whatever. Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone--even the lowborn--a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders.Brief digression: that might be a takeaway all my own from how the perspectives and sides of conflict are in the book, so this might not be something the author intended nor something other readers may feel the same about. The story starts nine years after a bloody uprising against the triarchy, the dragonborn families (i.

Back in the home country, the famine is ongoing, and people with lower medal rankings are receiving smaller rations than people with higher medal rankings (which includes Our Heroes). Recommended for both teens and adults who enjoy a mentally stimulating novel and for those who wish to lose themselves in a world full of dragons. But total annihilation is more difficult than it looks when it's hand to hand slaughter, and a few got away, or were spared--including one of our protagonists, Lee, who was born Leo, his father an important dragon lord.It talks about the cost of leadership, the weight of decision-making, and the responsibility of those in power to those without it. With war on the horizon and his relationship with Annie changing fast, Lee must choose to kill the only family he has left or to betray everything he's come to believe in. fireborne took me by complete surprise in the best way possible, when i went into this story with the only knowledge that it had an academy for dragonriders.

I found myself agreeing with the proposed actions of one character, and then the very next chapter I would change my mind and agree with a different character. our mains lee sur power and antigone sur aela both so layered in both their own orphaned backstories yet led to them being in the same orphanage together, the events entangles their bond and loyalty to one another. Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone-even the lowborn-a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders.maybe it’s just me but i thought it was skillfully thought out on its distinct themes of morals in question, loyalties, atonement, and much more. Lee and Annie are dragonriders-in-training, and after seven years of effort, they’re now competing to be Firstrider, an important position in the dragon army. This is only the first book of three and yet I already know this is going to be a series I will never forget. That's not even considering the explanation to the synopsis: And then what pulled it all together was Plato's Republic, which I studied a bit in college.

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