So Let Them Burn

, #1

english language

Published Jan. 16, 2024 by Little, Brown Young Readers.

ISBN:
978-0-316-53484-0
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5 stars (1 review)

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland.

Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She’s a legend to her people and a nuisance to her neighbors.

When she’s forced to attend an international peace summit, Faron expects that she will perform tricks like a trained pet and then go home. She doesn’t expect her older sister, Elara, forming an unprecedented bond with an enemy dragon—or the gods claiming the only way to break that bond is to kill her sister.

As Faron’s desperation to find another solution takes her down a dark path, and Elara discovers the shocking secrets at …

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reviewed So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole (Divine Traitors, #1)

Review of 'So Let Them Burn' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I care about basically all of these characters, and want to find out what happens next. A first novel in a series doesn't need to do much more than that to be good, but Cole does quite a bit more with what is ostensibly a YA fantasty/romance. Unpacking generational trauma, colonisation (and decolonisation), and the ethics of crime and punishment is quite a bit to fit in around an otherwise already busy plot.

Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Young Adult
  • LGBT