The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Yes, this was a very enjoyable read.

Hunger Games Trilogy, Discovery of Witches both series were well written. Authors who could paint pictures with words.

Elisa was my favorite because despite personal doubts she triumphed.

The moment that particularly moved me was when Elisa saw herself for the first time in a mirror after her time in the desert.

I chose this book because of the narrator and fell in love with the author.

Strength, spirit, determination.

Where the main character discovered she was worth more than just shoving pastries in her mouth.

There were so many, it is hard to narrow it down.

The title: The girl of fire and thorns.

Jennifer Ikedia has out done her self again with her reading! She is amazing, she completely transports you in to the story.

I hated this book. It was very boring.

The main girl never did anything, she would just go around being mad and fat.

I don't have one.

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My understanding is that this book was written as a teen series. I am not a teen and I enjoyed this book very much. There are unexpected twists and turns and it is never boring. I am reading the second book now and waiting for the third that is to be release in the Fall of 2013.

The reader was so believable as all the different characters and also very consistent with each one.

I have already listened to The Girl of Fire and Thorns numerous times! I just can't get enough. And each time I listen to it I find something new I missed before and I'm equally enthralled listening into hours of the night. Sound crazy? No, just a crazy good book. There is so much movement within the story that it feels like you're listening to a whole series at once, but yet it still goes by so fast!

There is no other book of the kind. It's part book of Revelations- yet with Spanish culture and religious influence- with a dash of futuristic "after this world" magic- and a little Lord of the Rings.

My favorite character in this book in the series is the main character- Elisa. I really couldn't stand her much at first but the writing was so good that I was captured into her world. Slowly Elisa changed, and so did my view and opinion of her. She became someone that would likely be my friend if she were real and someone that I would admire and respect. A great example of a humble servant ruler, not afraid to get her hands dirty, and certainly not a girly girl.

Yes. I would have had an editor do a better job. It was far too long.

They were all fine. But it was odd that she would slip characters before that character was done speaking. For example, Conde Trevino would be talking, and wham, there's the Elisa voice. However, it was still Conde Trevino's words. It was very confusing. There was a director involved, they should have caught this.

Just not exciting enough for me. It could have been though. Too long. Needed more action.

I was referred to this book by a friend and put it off for a while. I was surprised that it held my attention and couldnt wait to start the next book.

Although the story had potential, it was subpar. The descriptives of geography and environment were wonderful, as was the detail of the meals prepared. But the narrative just plodded along until some well written exciting events occured. My biggest criticism is that the book had a tremendous religious/Christian bent. This should have been part of the description because i would not have purchased it if I had known. If I had heard the phrase "I touched my fingertips to the Godstone..." one more time, I was going to scream. The author did tease nicely developing the "love interests" but in the end seriously disappointed the reader.
I liked the implication of magic or sorcery, and the history of the region.

No. I couldn't get past the obsession with praying constantly, but this was likely the author's intention: pray and pray more and your prayers will generally go unanswered while you suffer incredible pain and loss. Then maybe if you make it through all that, there will be an answer that you never would have considered.

ok, but diappointing. Jennifer Ikeda was phenomenal in Discovery of Witches series. She is bland and does not use her extraordinary verbal talent, accents, tone, character, etc. Very disappointed with this one.

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