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The Fire in My Blood
A few millennia into the future, on a different planet, in aging biodomes, the human race grapples with a new threat, or maybe a new gift - humans with fire in their blood. Nigrae Lunam, ex-soldier and current co-leader for the Caeruleum gang, finds himself ensnared in a fire fight when he rescues a pair of children, Sam and Abby from the Aurantiaco gang, and a man with cognac-colored eyes, Sanctus, from the Rubrum gang. This would be any average day, save for the fact Sanctus is a rare Providentia, a person who can boost a fire-user’s powers ten fold. A priceless, coveted treasure in the city of Urbs Aquarum. As Lunam shows the man and children what it means to be safe, he develops a fondness for Sanctus that he swears he will never reveal. When Sam and Abby are threatened and Sanctus is kidnapped, Lunam must face the responsibility of taking over another gang’s territory, his true feelings for Sanctus, and the chance it all blows apart in a fiery inferno.
349 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2020
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July 3, 2020
The Fire In My Blood fills a gap I didn't know I had in my reading, and I'm still not 100% on how to describe it. There's a strong romantic throughline in there, but I'm not sure I can call it a romance because it's also a dystopian urban fantasy, there's occasionally an action sequence that feels as if it could have come out of some of the best anime, and a lot of time is also spent on the importance of familial (and adopted familial) love as well as romantic. It does many things, but all well - none of these elements feels like an afterthought, and it's all woven together into a cohesive whole.
There's a very cool magic system somewhere between soft and hard: it's got a couple of inviolable rules, but beyond that the power just sort of depends on the individual. All powers are fire-based (which I happened to think was pretty awesome, and also in keeping with the setting, a future in which a petroleum company has had a pretty big impact on the world) and manifest in some really cool ways, after which the user is compelled to carry out a 'Repercussion', a sort of payment for using all that energy.
It can take a little while to feel up to speed with who everyone is; there are a lot of names, several of them sounding quite similar or belonging to characters you might not initially have distinct from one another in your mind, but by the end I felt I got to know everyone who was of emotional importance, so that all worked out for me.
There's also a lot of really good LGBTQ+ representation, but it doesn't feel shoehorned in. Characters are who they are, and the story makes sense with that and follows those lines but doesn't ever feel as if it's being hamfisted - not that it's possible to be too willing to have good representation, but hopefully you know what I mean when I say there are examples of it done badly, just sort of forced in where it doesn't fit as a kind of token. Not the case here.
I don't know whether Orahamm might tell more stories in this world; it feels as if there's potential for more to unfold within this setting, but the story of these characters seems pretty well wrapped-up for now. Still, I'd definitely read more by them. If I had one note for the future, it would probably be to extol the virtues of a good editor; there are a few typos scattered throughout, but never to the extent that I couldn't continue to enjoy it. (I've seen much worse, and The Fire In My Blood is a good enough tale that I'd have been willing to suffer through more typos than it actually has to keep going with the story.)
In short, if you've got a hankering for action, badasses having sweet family lives, romance, dystopia, the occasional gory battle, this book can scratch all of those itches.
There's a very cool magic system somewhere between soft and hard: it's got a couple of inviolable rules, but beyond that the power just sort of depends on the individual. All powers are fire-based (which I happened to think was pretty awesome, and also in keeping with the setting, a future in which a petroleum company has had a pretty big impact on the world) and manifest in some really cool ways, after which the user is compelled to carry out a 'Repercussion', a sort of payment for using all that energy.
It can take a little while to feel up to speed with who everyone is; there are a lot of names, several of them sounding quite similar or belonging to characters you might not initially have distinct from one another in your mind, but by the end I felt I got to know everyone who was of emotional importance, so that all worked out for me.
There's also a lot of really good LGBTQ+ representation, but it doesn't feel shoehorned in. Characters are who they are, and the story makes sense with that and follows those lines but doesn't ever feel as if it's being hamfisted - not that it's possible to be too willing to have good representation, but hopefully you know what I mean when I say there are examples of it done badly, just sort of forced in where it doesn't fit as a kind of token. Not the case here.
I don't know whether Orahamm might tell more stories in this world; it feels as if there's potential for more to unfold within this setting, but the story of these characters seems pretty well wrapped-up for now. Still, I'd definitely read more by them. If I had one note for the future, it would probably be to extol the virtues of a good editor; there are a few typos scattered throughout, but never to the extent that I couldn't continue to enjoy it. (I've seen much worse, and The Fire In My Blood is a good enough tale that I'd have been willing to suffer through more typos than it actually has to keep going with the story.)
In short, if you've got a hankering for action, badasses having sweet family lives, romance, dystopia, the occasional gory battle, this book can scratch all of those itches.
August 14, 2020
A different kind of romance.
Chapel Orahamm gives us a very different kind of romance. It's nothing like you expect. In a post apocalyptic world this romance is filled with unique situations that bring you closer to every character. You will open your heart to all of them.
Chapel Orahamm gives us a very different kind of romance. It's nothing like you expect. In a post apocalyptic world this romance is filled with unique situations that bring you closer to every character. You will open your heart to all of them.
December 10, 2020
Fun and unusual
This is a new author for me . The character development was so complete I felt like I was a part of their world. The Latin was hard to keep up with but all in all a fun read.
This is a new author for me . The character development was so complete I felt like I was a part of their world. The Latin was hard to keep up with but all in all a fun read.
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