#fireborne

[rosehalls]

fireborne by rosaria munda

they watch us kneel, they see the back of our heads, and they think we've given in. they don't realize you can think from your knees just as well as from your feet.

#fireborne #the aurelian cycle #rosaria munda #books #litedit #novelsnet #bookedit #librarysource #booksociety #storyseekers #userkates #userbelin #usercossette #userrobin #usersmia #usercaitlyn #userbea #*mine: graphics

[lunamond]

In keeping with my recommendation of Cruel Beauty, an actual good YA book, instead of 🔥hotfire garbage🔥, aka Acotar, I thought I'd recommend another favourite of mine.

So, this time, I'm going to give an alternative recommendation to Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. This post is definitely not inspired by the release of Iron Flame.

Instead please try:

Fireborne by Rosaria Munda❤️‍🔥

This recommendation is especially for anyone who fell for the advertising when FW first came out, and it was sold as a YA adjacent military dragon fantasy with a slow burn romance.

So if that sounds interesting to you and you want to read an actually well written story, go check out Fireborne.

Fireborne is a YA fantasy, the 1st book of the Aurelian Cycle (a completed trilogy).

It follows its two main characters in a military academy through their training to become dragon riders.

I personally have pitched this series to irl friends as a genderswapped Anastasia (animated movie) with dragons.

The story takes place right after a big revolution. The people overthrew the dragon riding aristocracy.

Our main characters meet up in an orphanage, where they grow up together and end up joining the military academy to become dragon riders.

A lot of the story revolves around the questions that come up when a newly formed government is put through crisis.

All seen through the eyes of the protagonists, who as teenagers are old enough to know what life was like before the revolution, but young enough to have grown up in the new system.

The story does a great job of dealing with the struggles that come with uprooting old deeply ingrained systems of oppression while trying to build a newer fairer system.

The dragons are an integral part of this theme. Unlike FW, in which magical abilities and creatures are added without regard for how they might impact the world or themes, in Fireborne, the dragons are the embodiment of political and military power.

When the aristocracy ruled their oppressive regime, they were the only ones allowed to own and ride dragons. After their fall, the new regime allowed regular people the opportunity to become riders.

However, the number of dragons is still limited, and the new regime, comprised of former revolutionary leaders, want to keep the new riders under their control.

So, in the end, they still come up with a system that allows for abuse and oppression because access to power remains restricted to a chosen few, the dragon riders and those who control them, the newly established government.

These themes make for really complicated and nuanced conflicts without easy solutions. The sequels make a great job with further expanding on these themes.

The military elements also all make sense in this series, and they employ logical means to train their most valuable military assets, their dragon riders unlike FW.

It also features one of my favourite slow burn romances (at least in YA), the relationship has actually depth and tension, while also providing believable reasons why the characters can't just get together.

I'm actually really salty that Fourth Wing took off practically overnight, while Fireborne has been out for ages and has consistently remained underhyped. But I guess it isn’t spicy... 😒

So, for anyone who picked FW up without realising that it is actually just a very trashy smutty romance mascarading as a high fantasy, I highly recommend reading Fireborne which comes with the added perk of not being written by a known zionist.

#fireborne #flamefall #furysong #the aurelian cycle #rosaria munda #dragon books #book recommendations #fw is basically the new acotar #anti fourth wing #anti Rebecca Yarros #anti iron flame #fw is not just badly written #but also problematic in similar ways #the same weird white milk toast progressivism #with some weird undertones #like I know their is a rebellion in FW #but what are they even rebelling #and what is their millitary fighting #nothing makes sense #i guess this makes this post anti sjm as well #anti sjm #anti acotar

[katiifaye]

“Together?”

“Together.”

Lee and Annie walking into the Fête of the Fourth Order from Flamefall, chapter 7. I know it's in the evening but I love sun rays so 💁‍♀️🌟

the Fireborne fanart continues....

Annie sur Aela x Lee sur Pallor

It's also on insta

#flamefall #furysong #rosaria munda #the aurelian cycle #fireborne #annie sur aela #antigone sur aela #lee sur pallor #digital art

[moshypants]

My Rough interpretation of the three main dragon breeds from the Aurelian Cycle Trilogy. I might mess with the designs more in sketches later as I reread the series. I feel like I especially struggled to nail down a color I was happy with for the Aurelian in the middle. For a first go at their designs without roughing out thumbnail ideas first I'm pretty happy with them. I gave up a little on coloring towards the end 😅. I need help finding a way to increase my love for the coloring process. I like to sketch and line and then I start to lose interest.

#Fireborne #rosaria munda #dragons #digital fanart #fanart #the aurelian cycle #aurelian #stormscourge #skyfish #furysong #Flamefall

[allaboardthexwing]

its just some of my faves from Fireborne, the first book of the Aurelian Cycle

#the aurelian cycle #fireborne #Rosaria munda #Flamefall #Furysong #Aurelian cycle fanart #Annie sur Aela #Lee sur Pallor #Crissa sur Phaedra

[theskysungqueen]

I feel like The Aurelian Cycle's obscurity in comparison to other dragon-related YA books (*cough* a certain romantasy whose sequel just recently came out *cough*) is partly because it's not heavy on the romance at all, the author almost never describes the more romantic scenes in detail, it's more focused on the nature of the relationships and how the charactere reflect on it

I mean, think about the tropes in Fourth Wing. Enemies to lovers where one's parent killed the other's. War college. Dragonrider military. Politics. The regime hiding secrets. All of these are present in The Aurelian Cycle, albeit with much, much better execution.

Fireborne did start slow, but I feel like that benefited the story. We're introduced to the status quo and established the world–this series is heavy on politics and questioning the government, less so on action and death.

The tropes are present, but not how most mainstream YA normally does them. It's not their lives at stake, it's their freedom, their identity, their values. It understands that death does not necessarily raise the stakes; they could lose more than that. Annie and Lee in technicality are enemies turned friends to lovers, but there's layers to their relationship. Even Power, the bully character, has layers. The Guardian school simultaneously gave and stripped them of freedom, instead of being straightfoward good or evil. It's all complicated, but it all works together to serve the theme of trying. "The point is trying."

I'm upset the series has ended, but I look forward to more of Rosaria Munda's work!

#rosaria munda #fireborne #flamefall #furysong #antigone sur aela #lee sur pallor #power sur eater

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#fireborne #rosaria munda #young adult #fantasy #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls #please chime in how this compares to fourth wing (*stirring up drama* jk im genuinely interested)

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #Fireborne #Rosaria Munda #The Aurelian Cycle #poll #result: no #l: English

[griffsursparker]

thinking about how Julia and Griff's dynamic is told almost entirely through absence, which is like. because she's physically not there when we're learning about their relationship. but also says so much about how the two of them interacted. even the few flashbacks we do see still feel like they play on that absence in a way. their entire relationship was always hollow, and Julia was never kind so much as just absent of the cruelty so many of the other dragonborn had. and so then to see their relationship only from the moment she's gone is so brilliant, because that absence (and the absences that come with it, like Agga's medicine) says so much more than showing their dynamic ever could have

#the aurelian cycle #flamefall #fireborne #rosaria munda is just so SMART godddd #mor told me to post aurelian cycle posts and they're so right i should because i love this series #it's so fucking good #and i have so many thoughts

[lyssq]

If I had a penny for every book about a boy of noble birth who watched his whole family be killed in front of him and narrowly avoided death himself, ran away and hid in an orphanage before someone unaware of his true identity recruits him into the regime that murdered his family (said regime presents the idea of everyone being equal while in reality being deeply flawed) and now has to work alongside people who would likely kill him if they knew who he really was, I’d have two pennies, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

#my job here on tumblr is to draw parallels between book series only i have read both of #the will of the many #hierarchy #fireborne #the aurelian cycle #vis telimus #lee sur pallor #of course the difference is that vis/diago’s family was killed by imperialism while lee’s family was killed by the revolution #so vis (in his head at least) gets to be justifiably angry meanwhile lee has turmoil #and their situations are very different but they go through similar angst #which is worse: the most traumatic goddamn day of your life being celebrated annually with a parade #or it being treated like a footnote. a minor victory hardly worth mentioning

[crissaeatscake]

The Aurelian Cycle by Rosaria Munda is so underrated

#the aurelian cycle #fireborne #flamefall #furysong #ya fantasy #books

[bookcide]

GODSFUCKING DAMMIT POWER

Whyyyyyyyyy

Why did he die?!

I don’t care how much of a conceited ass he was sometimes, I still loved him

Perhaps even a little bit more than lee, but can you blame me? He was there for her every step of the way. When lee was busy snogging cressa’s face off, he was there. When lee was busy lying to her, he was there and just he was there.

But ok fine I did forgive lee for being such a big idiot and I love him to death but power did not deserve what happened to him

And I can’t even talk about it with anyone because no one has read this and if I talk about it, it would be a spoiler and I literally can’t cope up with this.

I just know this is going to live in my head rent free for years 😭😭

#antigone #antigone sur aela #power sur eater #lee sur pallor #fireborne #furysong #the aurelian cycle #rosaria munda #this series wrecked me

[katiifaye]

Bring what fury you have and I will answer it with ours.

~ Annie sur Aela

Fireborne by Rosaria Munda

I added a dragon crest with a wreath to the background bc I think it reps the Revolution well. Also I posted the sketches on my reblog acct oops but I guess I'll leave them there

#Annie sur Aela #Fireborne #The Aurelian Cycle #Flamefall #Furysong #Aurelian cycle fanart #Antigone sur Aela #Rosaria Munda #myart

[moshypants]

Duck Sur Certa Work in progress

#my art #fanart #dragons #digital fanart #fan art #fireborne #flamefall #the aurelian cycle #dorian sur certa #duck #skyfish

[critical-quoter]

It's strange how you can fight your way to a door, even through it, without thinking about what lies on the other side.

Fireborne - Rosaria Munda

#book #books #booklr #book lover #book quotes #literature #lit #quote #reading #novel #fireborne #rosaria munda

[theskysungqueen]

"You came back to me." "And you came back to me."

I bring to you some AnnieLee because if I don't see fanart of them then I'LL make fanart of them

I posted this on my instagram (@/risaru.draws) but thought I'd post it here too

#fireborne #flamefall #furysong #the aurelian cycle #rosaria munda #antigone sur aela #lee sur pallor