Seize the Fire Book

This is one of the BEST historicals I have EVER read! Bravo!!!!!




The second half of the book:




My fav quote:

"He shrugged. "I suppose I'm a fairly downy bird when it comes to hoaxing dragons. But when one of 'em ties you down and punches you in the stomach, not to mention beating you over the head and drowning you by degrees, it's high time to retire from the field with what grace you can muster." He looked at her, his dark lashes swept low over the silver firelight in his eyes. "I'm sorry you were caught out in the middle, but it's no place for princesses, you know. Dragons have a particular taste for a sweet and helpless royal highness."
　　"I thought that was what the hero was for," she said tartly. "To rescue the princess."
　　"Well, you're not eaten, are you? And we heroes weren't created just for the convenience of some feather-headed princess gone astray. We have lives of our own. Hopes, plans, railway stocks…" He shook his head. "But nobody ever thinks of that. It's just rescue the princess and live happily ever after. I've never heard precisely what we're supposed to do when the princess would prefer to start a revolution than marry the poor sod who risked his neck to rescue her. Or announces"'his smile held a bitter twist'"that she'd rather become a streetwalker."
　　Olympia sat up away from him. "Steal her jewels, perhaps," she said acidly.
　　To her astonishment and rage, he had the gall to catch her back. Olympia struggled, pushing at his hands, but in spite of her fight he held her up close to him, his arm around her chest. "You'll have your damned jewels returned," he said into her hair."


I love this quote <3 And I love him! Best damn anti-hero ever written. He can't even be labeled an anti-hero, he is just a person who does what is necessary to survive. I love every scheming, lying bit of him <3