Lana Popović’s Fierce Like a Firestorm is the thrilling conclusion to the Wicked Like a Wildfire duology, a YA folklore fantasy featuring twin sisters with magical powers bound by a deadly family curse. Perfect for fans of Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo, this sequel follows Malina’s quest to save her sister Iris from a mysterious realm ruled by Death while uncovering dark family secrets.
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Bookish Essentials
Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy / Folklore / Magical Realism
Series: Book 2 of Wicked Like A Wildfire (2 Books)
Reading Age: 14+
Published: 2018
Pages: 320
Reading Order: 1) Wicked Like a Wildfire, 2) Fierce Like a Firestorm
From the Jacket of Fierce Like A Firestorm
In the bewitching conclusion to Lana Popovic’s sumptuous and romantic teen fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo, Malina must rescue her twin sister from a magical power more dangerous than Death.
Twin sisters Iris and Malina thought they knew how to reverse the ancient curse that haunts their line, the spell that destines them to use their gleams—unique forms of beauty-manipulating magic—to entice and enchant none other than Death himself. But both sisters thought wrong.
Instead of ending the wicked bargain with the power of her infinite bloom, Iris is taken to an uncanny realm between this world and the next. Only, unlike all of Death’s companions before, Iris’s body goes on the one-way journey along with her soul, arriving in a kingdom never meant to sustain a living girl.
Left behind, Lina searches for a way to save Iris. But as Lina unearths the dark secrets that bind her family and Iris tries to outwit Death on his own terrain, a power resurfaces that even Mara, the original witch mother, fears.
Now both sisters must learn to fully embrace their gleams—or else they’ll truly lose each other forever.
Why Fierce Like A Firestorm is on My TBR
I absolutely loved the story at the heart of Lana Popović’s Wicked Like a Wildfire duology—a lyrical, folklore-rich YA fantasy about twin sisters bound by a magical legacy and a dangerous curse. In Wicked Like a Wildfire, twin sisters Iris and Malina possess unique magical abilities called “gleams” that allow them to manipulate beauty. Their lives are upended when their mother is attacked, leading them to uncover a family curse that binds their fates to a force larger than life. In the sequel, Fierce Like a Firestorm, Malina must use her gleam to rescue Iris from a magical realm created by Death, while both sisters confront the dark secrets of their family’s past.
Originally, I had planned to wait to read Fierce Like a Firestorm because I struggled a bit with the pacing in book one (which I talk more about in my review of Wicked Like a Wildfire). But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I couldn’t wait. I needed to know how this story ends. That’s why this sequel made its way onto my TBR—it promises closure to a world and story I’m still thinking about.
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