Andy’s time is running out. The evil djinn king has put a target on his back for trapping him in a lamp. Like Andy needs extra problems when he’s still magically bound to an injured djinn, and must find a way to break their connection before the next full moon. If he fails, the veil protecting Earth from bloodthirsty monsters will crumble, and he will be trapped in the djinn world forever. No biggie at all.
Fireking is book 2 in the Fireborn Series, a middle grade paranormal fantasy series. Think The Librarians meets Indiana Jones.
LJ Clarkson has done many things in her time. Making mud pies as an Environmental Engineer. Bossing people around as a project manager. Reducing flood risk to residents affected by floods. But her all time favorite job is telling stories and making others laugh.
She counts the following as very special talents: singing out of tune, laughing at her own jokes, reciting useless, but very fascinating facts, and a magical habit of magnetizing food to her clothes. If she were a Mastermind, she’d uninvent early mornings, grammar, broccoli, cleaning and her dog’s fussy eating habits.
Fire King picks up where the last book left off. Andy has entered the dinjin world and he must find a way to release Jinjiri within a week or else he will become trapped in her world forever. Things, however, go awry when he is caught by the Fire King’s men, forced to release the Fire king from the lamp and imprisoned.
Fire King is quick paced with action at every turn. However, I still did not like the main character and his self-talk and constant judgement of others drove me nuts. I also found the premise of the plot to bear too many similarities to The last air bender. That is, each of the dinjin tribes controlled one of the elements, Jinjiri’s tribe was that of water, they were in conflict with the nation of fire, whilst Andy is the avatar that can control all of the elements. Thankfully the story itself is different. I think children would enjoy it