Kristin Cashore's Fire: So Very Pretty

A while back, I took it into my head that I wanted to try my hand at making podfic.  Then I realized I didn’t have the technical savvy to undertake such an endeavor, but not before I bought a couple of books on tape for research purposes.  I like it.  I can cross-stitch and listen to them at the same time.  Though, this does make it harder to find quippy quotes to use for cut text.  And I can’t write while listening to them like I can while watching reruns of NCIS and Criminal Minds.  Shame.

Ever since Fire was born, she has had a beauty so mesmerizing, people can’t help but fall under her spell, because she isn’t like other people.  She’s a monster, with the fiery orange hair for which she was named, and her perfect face and body.  Fire hates what she is.  But as civil war rises in the Dells, the royal family needs the help of her amazing beauty to help weed out the traitors in their midst, and while she’s there, she must deal with the hatred of the people who remember the cruelty of other monsters, and who fear her ensnaring their weak minded king.

( What if while he gaped at her and imagined whatever his small mind cared to imagine, she convinced him to draw his knife and take out his own eye? )

Now, I have a sunny roof to lie down on and a copy of Cashore’s first book, Graceling to dive into.  Wish me luck.

Kristin Cashore can be found online at her blog, This is My Secret.