Name: Fireheart Tiger
Author: Aliette de Bodard
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Date published: February 2021
Genre: Fiction, adult, fantasy, romance
Pages: 103
Rating: 4/5
Fire burns bright and has a long memory….
Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she’s returned to her mother’s imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria’s royal palace.
Thanh’s new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanh’s home. Eldris won’t take no for an answer, on either front. But the fire that burned down one palace is tempting Thanh with the possibility of making her own dangerous decisions.
Can Thanh find the freedom to shape her country’s fate—and her own?
- From Goodreads.
I enjoyed this novella and found it to be an engaging story well told in a short time.
The characters were all intriguing and realistic, Thanh and Giang being my favourites. I thought the two of them had very compelling personalities and their interactions were thoughtful and emotional.
Although the world of the story had to be kept quite small because of the length of the story, I felt like it was well built and described in an interesting way. The politics felt authentic and the dangers of the world that Thanh was worried about felt real too. All of the story, except for a couple of flashbacks, took place in one palace, and I enjoyed reading the descriptions of that palace and felt it was a fascinating setting for the story to take place in.
Fireheart Tiger was a very sweet and captivating story about a young woman learning to stand her ground and come to terms with her emotions. While there were a couple of places where I felt the story could have used slightly more expansion and moments where characters could have been a little more developed, mostly I really loved it and will definitely reread it and continue to read more of Aliette de Bodard's work.
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