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Flying With Fire
By Emma Mills
Published: July 17th 2014
Blurb-
Nobody who enters Ravenwood will ever be the same again.
Fifteen year old Brooke has been in care all her life. Now she finally has an adoptive family who don't want to send her back to The Home; but their solution for her problems is much more dangerous.
A secret boarding school for possessed children. A boarding school where any unnatural behaviour will be stamped out. A boarding school with no escape; where witchcraft is punished and vampires are murdered in the sunlight.
Brooke is the only one with the power to escape the security wards, yet she must find a way to help them all before it is too late.
Excerpt-
'Hi, I'm Ember…well, the teachers keep trying to call me Amber, because they don't like what my name refers to…but, well it's Ember.'
'As in 'embers of a fire'?' Brooke asked, her eyes widening slightly.
'It means 'spark'; I looked it up,' Ember said shrugging, 'but your name, Brooke, surely that comes from water? So why is Erica calling you a fire-starter?'
Ember looked at Brooke curiously, her face open and friendly and yet Brooke felt frozen. Somehow she'd expected to be able to slip into this new school like any other, without her past creeping up and ruining everything. Yet now Erica had changed all that and everyone would want to know. Were these truly all kids with problems? Were Ember & the boy she was with…Blade, fire-starters… arsonists? The fire in her bedroom had been an inexplicable accident, the only one. Well…the only accident where she'd actually set fire to something. She didn't know what to say, or where to start. She bit her lip as memories started rushing in, clamouring for attention.
She'd tried to tell Steve and Mary of the vivid dreams with the stolen baby, the black-clad gang and the light-throwing warriors. She'd explained over and over about how the raging fire had burned in the forest and chased her as she stumbled and tripped her way to safety, scorching her arms with their flame-like tattoos. She'd seen their contempt brewing, so their consequent dismissal was expected, maybe even warranted.
Just like the other families before them, they'd begun by saying she had a wonderful imagination, but then as their patience waned it became 'night terrors'. This led to her meeting Mr Rosencrantz, a therapist, who said she had trouble differentiating between dreams and reality, so much so that when she woke screaming she believed she was still a part of the nightmare. Except she knew that when she woke in her bed she was indeed awake; it was the bit before that confused her. The tattoo-like scorch marks on her arm and the bedroom fire took everything to another level, and now she was declared a liar, a rebellious, tattooed, pink-haired teenage arsonist looking for attention.
What she hadn't seen coming was that they'd keep her, and send her here. They still wanted to get rid of her, of that she was sure, but they didn't want to be seen to give up. Or maybe they did know the implications of sending her back to The Home. Maybe they suspected the beatings, the abuse; and maybe they thought they were doing their best for her.
My Review-
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Brooke has been past from foster home to foster home all of her life. And eventually something terrible happens that is beyond her control. She has no more of an idea of what is going on than her foster family but after each incident she is sent back to "The Home" an orphanage. But now at the age of fifteen Brook has hit it lucky she now has a family that cares about her and wants her as their own daughter, so they adopt her.
But when strange things start happening and begin to happen more and more her adopted parents doesn't want to send her back to "The Home" they want to keep her and help her. So instead of sending her back they hear of a private school called Revenwood where they can help children like Brooke.
So off to Ravenwood she goes where she meets some good people and some bad people as well. Brooke finds a few new friends and she also finds enemies too. She finds out that there are people there like her. They help her figure out whom and what she is. They also try to help her learn to use and control her powers.
Ravenwood is not such a good place to be which Brooke finds out pretty quickly after arriving at the school. She finds out that she is one of the most powerful witches there and she maybe the only one that can help her friends and herself to escape the evil head mistress. But saving everyone may cost her more than she is willing to give. Will or can Brooke save herself and her friends?
Emma Mills is one of the best authors that I have run across in a very long time and one of the first authors to ask me to review her books. Flying With Fire is a spinoff of sorts from her bestselling series Witchblood. I have read all of the Witchblood novellas and loved each and every one of them. Emma is an amazing and talented author that you don't want to miss out on. If you have not read any of her books yet then I highly, highly recommend that you do. Flying With Fire is just as good if not better than the Witchblood series. Emma's writing just gets better and better. I can't wait to read more of her work and hopefully it will be in the near future too.
About The Author-
Emma Mills is a stay-at-home mum, who after a recent move 200 miles south now lives in the beautiful county of Somerset, in the UK. She shares her home with her husband, two children, a dog, 3 cats, a house rabbit and a tankful of fish. Emma went to university to study English in the city of Manchester and for the first decade of her adult life lived in a small town on the edge of the Peak District. It was here, looking after her babies and compulsively reading YA fiction that the ideas for her debut novel, WitchBlood began to take root. Emma is now working on a new and exciting YA project. A three book series unlike her last, where all the characters are human, there are no vampires, no spell casting and no demons rising. A series that will rip your emotions to shreds and leave you breathless...
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