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Too much the Chosen One

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

December 13, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I made what I now think was a mistake in reading We Hunt the Flame immediately after reading a pair of light parodies of the chosen one genre. The mistake was that We Hunt the Flame is very much as serious chosen one fantasy story, and coming after entertaining mockeries of the genre, ended up feeling a little too obvious about things that were probably supposed to be reveals. Zaphira is a girl but also the Hunter whom everyone thinks is a man. Her skill […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, ancient arabia, hafsah faizal, sands of arawiya, we hunt the flame, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:79 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, ancient arabia, hafsah faizal, sands of arawiya, we hunt the flame, YA ·
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