Jasmine Young

"Fourteen-year-old Jaime Pappas is fiercely loyal to his foster family. And he’s fearful for their safety when the Fire King’s royal soldiers arrive in their mountain town to torch them for high treason. Fleeing for his life, he’s devastated when his brother suffers the ultimate fiery punishment. Desperately fighting for survival and terrified he’ll be found, Jaime’s world upends when he discovers he can bend storms and wind to his will. And his shock soon turns to terror after learning he could be the prophesied prince destined to kill an illegitimate king. Is Jaime the son of destiny who will save their realm?"--from amazon.com description.

A Four Kingdoms: Origins Novel

Stormfire

Kimi 

Thank you to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review!
Rated: 2 Stars

The story is about a boy named Jamie who lives a simply farm life.  A turn of events lead him to find out more about himself and finds out he is the crowned prince.  Jamie has to make a decision to conquer a bane storm to save the kingdom and face his cruel father or run back to his simply farm life.  

I had a very hard time with this book.  The writing was disjointed and the setting of the story was hard to follow.  The first half of the story the descriptions seem it was set in ancient Greek and then the next it was set in Japan.   The people were wearing Greek clothing but then writing with Japanese ink wells and brushes.  The dialogue in the first half was between using medieval times (i.e. my lady/my lord) to modern slang (i.e. cool, I don't know man, sorry man, it's just that we're...).  There were times the main character Jamie would sustain an injury or something but it came from out of nowhere, it's like some section of the writing is missing or got removed so there is no connection as to what happened.  

The character development is decent however, there just wasn't enough building of each character that when names were being dropped it was hard to remember the relation of the character and how they all connect together.  

The romance in the story to put mildly is silly.  There was not any real relationship development between the two characters and when the moment the "I love you" came out of their mouth it seems unbelievable and seems highly unlikely since there wasn't anything there to begin with except teenage hormones.  

The plot and the connections as to why things happen is vague.  It leads to the writing and how disjointed everything is.  Overall, the whole story gives off heavy Avatar Airbender vibes and that was nice and the storyline was interesting.

Stormfire A Four Kingdoms: Origins Novel

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