The world that Janice Hardy has created jumps off the page and envelops you.įirst off, the entire trilogy’s premise is amazing – certain people can heal with a touch? Great, right? Take that wonderful-sounding idea and make it dark and twisted. But this is upper-middle-grade with very high stakes, and there are no elves to speak of. I rarely read middle grade novels, and I generally don’t read high fantasies. That’s where THE SHIFTER begins, and BLUE FIRE continues her story. And like Katniss, she gets pulled into the middle of it all. But before there’s like decades upon decades of awful Hunger Games under an evil ruler, there’s this one girl who might be able to prevent all that, even though she doesn’t realize it. Let me set it up this way – pretend you’re reading a prequel to THE HUNGER GAMES (OMG Suzanne Collins write it RIGHT NOW!) and District 13 has just been blown to smithereens, and the rebellion’s pretty much done, the bad guys have won. (BTW, it’s time to read THE SHIFTER.) Anyway, you’ll still be able to understand this review. So if you didn’t read the first book, THE SHIFTER, that’s probably close to gibberish.
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