Great 4-Star Read!

Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I enjoyed reading this one, especially with the different approaches to dragons and using them to fight in the rings like bulls. I also loved how Zarela switches what she does with the dragons at the end.
This starts out packing a punch with Zarela experiencing disaster and tragedy when she’s at the arena with her father watching her mother dance before the dragon fight is to start. This disaster leads to her, as a flamenco dancer trained by her mother, having to figure out things to save her family legacy. When the Dragon Guild tries to take the family inheritance from Zarela, she finds herself with no choice but to train to become a Dragonador. She has to figure out how to get Arturo, the most talented dragon hunter in the land to help her train and learn all about dragons to keep the Dragon Guild from taking everything from her and her family.
Zarela has to help her father with his health and running things and then train to become a Dragonador to keep from losing everything to the Dragon Guild. It’s hard work and Arturo is infuriating and hard for her to train and get along with at first, but then things change and their story becomes a love story. As things go along, there are a few big surprises or twists in the story and we see Zarela grow and change as she comes into her own. Others are trying to sabotage things for her and her family as well that she has to figure out who it is, what they’re doing, and how to stop them. I would give a few content/trigger warnings though of grief, and death, and a bit more explicit on the page intimacy action also.
Thanks so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press/Wednesday Books for letting me read and review this story. All thoughts and opinions are my own.



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