Tell the Wind and Fire
Sarah Rees Brennan
368 pages
Published by Clarion Books
** Stars
Tell the Wind & Fire is about a young girl called Lucie who lives in a New York very different from the New York we know: the city is torn between two very different kinds of magic, and Lucie’s own family was torn apart years ago by that conflict. Lucie wears magic rings and carries a burden of guilt she can’t share with anyone.
The light in her life is her sweetheart boyfriend Ethan, but it turns out Ethan has a secret too: a soulless doppelganger created by dark magic, who has to conceal the face identical to Ethan’s with a hood fastened by a collar nobody but a Light magician with magical rings can take off… and who introduces himself to both of them by, for reasons nobody can understand, saving Ethan’s life…
The light in her life is her sweetheart boyfriend Ethan, but it turns out Ethan has a secret too: a soulless doppelganger created by dark magic, who has to conceal the face identical to Ethan’s with a hood fastened by a collar nobody but a Light magician with magical rings can take off… and who introduces himself to both of them by, for reasons nobody can understand, saving Ethan’s life…
It's hard to perfect the Urban Fantasy genre. The characters, story and plot need to be well thought out and developed in order for me to be fully engrossed and captivated. Tell the Wind and Fire was an...interesting story. It's supposed to be a take on A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens but to me it felt more like a mash up of The Hunger Games and Divergent. I had a challenging time relating to our heroine Lucie in any capacity. And at some points I even thought she was a tad whiny and emo with all her self loathing.
