#ARCstravaganza is a weekly meme hosted by the wonderful Flavia over @Flavia the Bibliophile where book bloggers/bookstagrammers have a chance to show off their ARCs/eARCs/Galleys!
Hello Readers! This is my 6th week participating in #ARCstravaganza Monday & this week I’ve chosen Before She Ignites by Jodi Meadows. I have only read one other book by this author & that was the collabo My Lady Jane which was one of my top faves for 2016. While I wait on the Lady Janies to give us another fab collaboration, I thought it would be nice to check out some of their individual works. Originally I planned to go through Jodi Meadows older books (I have a few on my TBR i’m really interested in like The Orphan Queen & Incarnate) but really who can pass up dragons?!?! not this little bookworm lol. This doesn’t mean I’ll be forgetting about her older titles, it just means the order of operations has changed haha! BESIDES the DRAGONS though there are two factors that pulled me in. Our main protagonist is a person of color which unfortunately in YA Fantasy is still not a common thing. This is NOT a #ownvoices written book but I’m a big supporter of diverse characters & hope we get good representation in Before She Ignites. Secondly, our MC struggles with crippling anxiety which is also uncommon in YA Fantasy yet also very relatable. I’m someone who experiences social anxiety & find that a character who is expected to be a heroine yet doesn’t see herself as one…is def a story I’d like to read & review on Lair Of Books.
Before She Ignites by Jodi Meadows
Before
Mira Minkoba is the Hopebearer. Since the day she was born, she’s been told she’s special. Important. Perfect. She’s known across the Fallen Isles not just for her beauty, but for the Mira Treaty named after her, a peace agreement which united the seven islands against their enemies on the mainland.
But Mira has never felt as perfect as everyone says. She counts compulsively. She struggles with crippling anxiety. And she’s far too interested in dragons for a girl of her station.
After
Then Mira discovers an explosive secret that challenges everything she and the Treaty stand for. Betrayed by the very people she spent her life serving, Mira is sentenced to the Pit–the deadliest prison in the Fallen Isles. There, a cruel guard would do anything to discover the secret she would die to protect.
No longer beholden to those who betrayed her, Mira must learn to survive on her own and unearth the dark truths about the Fallen Isles–and herself–before her very world begins to collapse.
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This book is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! I can’t wait to hear what you think, Lilly!
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Oh that makes my heart happy 🤗 I have such high hopes! Thanks Krysti 💜
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Let’s chat when you start reading, Lilly! ❤
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Ohh that book sounds so interesting – I’m also happy to see a POC dealing with anxiety as a main character in a fantasy book, this happens too rarely! Thank you so much for sharing this, I hope you’ll enjoy the book 🙂
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Thank you Marie, I hope we get more books like these straight across genres since as you said it is rare 😉
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This sounds like an interesting book, like you I can’t really resist dragons so I may have to add this one to my to-read list as well. 😀 I haven’t read any of Jodi Meadow’s other books, I don’t have them on my to-read list either, so I’ll be interested in seeing what you think of this one Lilly, I really hope you enjoy it. 🙂
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Thank you Beth! I highly recommend My Lady Jane which she wrote with 2 other well known authors. I am really looking forward to this one and then will start making my way through her older books 🙂
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Oh I have actually read My Lady Jane. I feel like because it was three authors who wrote it together I always forget they have individual books out there as well you know? 🙂
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Me too! haha! it’s only now that they each have projects going that I’m beginning to separate one from the other lol 🙂
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I guess that just means I need to get around to their individual books even sooner! 😀
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This is a book that I can’t wait to read either, mainly because of how much I adored My Lady Jane. I hope you enjoy it!
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Every time I read this synopsis I get chills. I love how this is a fantasy novel which starts with the Happily Ever After, throws in some mental health concerns, and then EVERYTHING FALLS APART. I want please and thank you.
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