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I was so excited about this book because I love Cruel Beauty and Crimson Bound, but yeesh....Where do I even begin? The main characters are underdeveloped and impossible to connect with. There is too much...everything. Too much theology. Too many "clans" and cultural details to keep up with. I feel like I was stuck in a room with a hundred years' worth of National Geographic magazines. Then, add in zombies AND necromancers AND mysterious fog AND magic AND a dystopian world AND the Romeo/Juliet story. The most interesting characters are Vai and the Reapers, who we don't really get much of. Why not just make the Reapers the only bad guys? They're scary enough without throwing zombies and magicians into the mix.

The worst part of this was that it was difficult to care about any of the 4 main characters. To sum it up, Romeo and Paris are whiny and afraid, and Runajo and Juliet are bitter and angry. The only reason I finished the book was that I kept thinking it had to get better. I allowed myself this hope right up to the last page...and then it didn't get better. I don't mind a cliffhanger, but in this case, I don't think I care enough about any of these people to read the sequel.


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Bright Smoke Cold Fire Rosamund Hodge Books Reviews

I’m not a fan of zombies. This is the first book that I’ve read that has zombie-like features in it and is as surprised by how good it was. Rosamund Hodge wrote Cruel Beauty which is by far my favorite fairytale retelling, mainly because not everything is perfect and it’s so much deeper than our childhood stories. I wasn’t a fan of Crimson Bound so I didn’t want to read Bright Smoke, Cold Fire.

It was slow at first, but by around halfway through I was flipping the pages and unable to put it down. However, it then became slow again. I know that there’s a sequel but I’m not sure if the ending left me wanting to read the second. The book was good, but not excellent.

The romance was not what I expected. It’s the classic Romeo and Juliet love in that I couldn’t really see that much depth in their love. They weren’t together for the whole story so that made it difficult as well. However the amazing friendships/frenemies of Juliet and Runajo as well as Romeo and Paris did not leave me wanting. The quick wit and sarcasm along with the two quests kept me reading on. I definitely enjoyed reading about the girls though, over the guys.
“She slides her fingers into his dark hair and kisses him, kisses her dearest sin, again and again. Her heart pounds with the desire to kill him, to wreck and ruin and revenge, but she only clutches him closer, kisses him more fiercely, and his arms wrap around her as he kisses her back.

She will not be the one who kills him.

She will give everything else to her family, to her duty, to the adjuration written on her skin.

But she will not give them this.”

There has also been something moving to me about the tale of Romeo and Juliet. I get that it can be a controversial story, but I still always felt so drawn to the drama, the passion, the poetry of the story. Well Rosamund Hodge took this classic love and twisted it in a fantastic way. In this version Juliet is a roll to be played by a female who can serve as the warrior and savior of her clan. The story is filled with characters who all are learning that their world may be a lie. The book contains magic, mystery, necromancy, and revenants. And its all done in a fun and beautiful way.

The book ended with a lot up in the air, but she sort of wrapped it up with a poetical seen so I can overlook it. Also knowing that I have the sequel on preorder helps. All that being said this book is really very well done and I give it 4.5 stars.
**Review courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy**

Romeo and Juliet has never been my favorite. It's like teenage angst at its best, something which I'm not generally a fan of. BRIGHT SMOKE, COLD FIRE at least didn't have nearly as much angst as Romeo and Juliet, but it also wasn't an amazing story either. Hodge seemed to bite off a little more than she could chew, and the result was a scatterbrained story with zombies, magic, and tons of weird stuff going on.

I'm not 100% sure how to explain anything that happens in BRIGHT SMOKE, COLD FIRE without ruining it for a reader who might enjoy it. But I will say that it's just too much - there's too much of everything. The zombie storyline would have been fine by itself, but then Hodge threw in ghosts, and magic, and a bit of a dystopian society, and it all started to become too much. Romeo and Juliet and Zombies, as I've heard this book referred to in other reviews, doesn't really explain what goes on, because for the most part, the story takes place after Romeo and Juliet are separated, and the zombies unfortunately don't play that large a role. (This is saying something, because I'm not usually a fan of creatures that are like zombies.)

Some of the characters drove me nuts. Like Romeo, who was alternatively heartsick and practical - dude, make up your mind. I rather loved Mahyanai's one mindedness toward her plan - getting into the library beneath her convent, but that started to get old, and she wasn't part of the original Romeo and Juliet story to begin with, so I spent a lot of time trying to puzzle out who she would have been. At the end of the day, there weren't tons of likable characters. Even the secondary characters spent a lot of time just being pure evil or out to get one of the heroes or heroines. (I did like Vai a LOT though - if you read it, you'll see what I mean.)

Overall, BRIGHT SMOKE, COLD FIRE, was a disappointment to this huge Rosamund Hodge fan. Having loved her two previous books, I had much higher expectations for BRIGHT SMOKE, COLD FIRE, and this just didn't do it for me. I might stick around for book two, to see what happens, but it won't make my "most anticipated" list.
I was so excited about this book because I love Cruel Beauty and Crimson Bound, but yeesh....Where do I even begin? The main characters are underdeveloped and impossible to connect with. There is too much...everything. Too much theology. Too many "clans" and cultural details to keep up with. I feel like I was stuck in a room with a hundred years' worth of National Geographic magazines. Then, add in zombies AND necromancers AND mysterious fog AND magic AND a dystopian world AND the Romeo/Juliet story. The most interesting characters are Vai and the Reapers, who we don't really get much of. Why not just make the Reapers the only bad guys? They're scary enough without throwing zombies and magicians into the mix.

The worst part of this was that it was difficult to care about any of the 4 main characters. To sum it up, Romeo and Paris are whiny and afraid, and Runajo and Juliet are bitter and angry. The only reason I finished the book was that I kept thinking it had to get better. I allowed myself this hope right up to the last page...and then it didn't get better. I don't mind a cliffhanger, but in this case, I don't think I care enough about any of these people to read the sequel.