Heart on Fire: Enter a spellbinding world of romantic fantasy (The Kingmaker Chronicles Book 3)

My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟Type: Trilogy – Book 3Genre: Fantasy, Magical world, Action & Adventure, FictionPrimary Characters: Catalia, GriffinSecondary Characters: Kato, Carver, FlynnA satisfying conclusion to this spell bound, action filled series. This book was slightly disappointing in the end. I was hoping for more action in final war and wonderful epilogue, but it flopped for me in both. Action till the mid part was awesome, I personally feel, book slumped lot more post that.Book continues with Cat and Griffin’s Journey in reuniting Thalyria. Conquering Fisa is no easy task. With Cat’s mother Andromeda’s ambition, cruelty and power its no easy walk. Cat has to overcome her fears and face her mother. To do that she travels through the Fisa to unlock all her powers. We meet several other mythical creatures in this gripping conclusion. Interactions with Medusa, Harpy, Mares of Thrace, centaur, unicorn, sphinx and chimera are wonderful. Cat’s power and Griffin’s resilience, they are everything that is needed to right the wrongs.Battle scenes with her mother was awesome. It did feel like single women show at some point, which isn’t a bad thing, yet sort of disappointing. There are several instances which I didn’t like in this book, that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the series, I did, its just too much to accept even in fictional story. All gods coming to earth and helping one woman against all odds is slightly tough to digest. Being an Indian and listening to all such similar stories with our own mythical creatures and gods helping in several ways and forms to full fill their destiny made it easy for me to like this.However, final war scene was very disappointing. Cat’s Monologue along with some parts of book consumed in second half made me roll my eyes. I ignored the above enjoyed the rest of the book.Pace of book is fast, intriguing, thrilling with lot of action in 1st part. Second part dragged a bit. Writing style and narration is awesome. Bellanca, Lycheron, Ianthe, Jocasta, Aetos, Salena are wonderful addition to secondary characters.I would recommend this wonderful series. This series is filled with action and adventure. Its spellbound action, rich world building, supernatural and mythological creatures it makes a great series and a good final book.

I love this series so much!! It had everything: enemies to lovers, found family, smut, swoon worthy romances, kick ass female lead and awesome secondary characters. This conclusion to the series did not disappoint, and I can't wait to read more about the side characters!

Mit Band 3 kommt die Kingmaker Trilogy zu einem Ende. Und es war einfach nur herrlich!Cat und Griffin sind zu einem meiner Lieblingspärchen geworden. Die Chemie stimmt, jeder hat seine Fehler und Schwächen, aber gemeinsam macht es die beiden noch stärker. Das Vertrauen, das Griffin in Cat setzt ist einfach wunderbar und auch ich hab mit Cat gelitten und manchmal gezweifelt und wurde dann doch so sehr von Griffin überrascht. Es gab auch den ein oder anderen Moment, wo ich nicht mehr wusste, wohin mit meinen Gefühlen. Für mich hat Amanda das wunderbar geschrieben und ich war auch in Band 3 noch so von der Geschichte gefesselt.Aber auch die Geschichte selbst nimmt jetzt erst so richtig an Fahrt an. Man ist mittendrinnen statt nur dabei und hofft, bangt, liebt und kämpft mit all den liebgewonnenen Charakteren. Besonders in meinem Herzen geblieben ist Kato – ich brauche unbedingt mehr.Das Englisch war wie immer einfach, flüssig und leicht zu lesen.Jetzt, da ich weiß, dass es bald einen neuen Teil geben wir, zwar mit Flynn und Jocasta, aber egal, freu ich mich noch mehr, wenn ich endlich wieder bald in die Welt der Götter eintauchen kann.Für alle Götter, Fantasy, Romantiker unter euch: schnappt es euch und lässt euch verzaubern.

Well written and exceeded my expectations.

Catalia Fisa has much to accomplish in this adrenaline-charged, emotionally rich and sometimes heartrending, roller coaster conclusion to The Kingmaker Chronicles, HEART ON FIRE. Cat faces fierce battles, not all of which are physical, a challenging quest, and finds herself thrown into one particularly dark and difficult ordeal. Together, Cat and Griffin are forging a new world between the three previously separate and often warring provinces of Tarva, Sinta, and Fisa. Cat’s greatest struggles result not only from her seriously evil and vicious mother’s actions, but her own fears and lack of confidence. Cat desperately needs to figure how to use her frustratingly erratic God-given powers which will enable her to be triumphant. Her path to victory comes with many hard choices. In Cat’s realm, doing what is right and honorable is rarely easy and often dangerous. She has the perfect man at her side in Griffin whose love and confidence helps Cat become everything she is meant to be. With his unconditional love and unwavering support, Griffin shows Cat no matter where the journey takes her, he will be there. Her own worries and self-doubt are perhaps the truest enemy if not the most tangible one. Cat sees herself as too damaged to be the queen she is destined to be. Griffin's love and support empowers Cat to overcome self-loathing and crippling uncertainty giving her the strength to take wing and fly.By embracing her true purpose instead of fleeing it, Cat becomes the embodiment of “Elpis” which means hope; her destiny is to unite Thalyria. She wants the people to see life can be good when lived with joy and peace rather than brutality, neglect, and the abuse they have known. Cat must convince herself though as well that the Gods are on her side. However, the Gods are often far from benevolent; Cat finds their interactions less than helpful and frequently maddening. The capricious meddling Gods have quite a few surprises, not all of them pleasant, in their plans for her and Griffin. Cat’s family, those who are blood and ones claimed as such, also figure greatly into this epic tale. The harder Cat fights, the more her mother, Andromeda, unleashes her immense abilities as Cat’s most powerful and painful enemy. Soon to become a mother herself, Cat has even more reason to fight with every fiber of her being to establish a new world order.Cat embodies my favorite kind of fantasy heroine. I love the combination of her courage, strength, stubbornness, and self-sacrificing loyalty thrown together with a little bit of crazy, but laced with humor to lighten a very heavy load. Cat never gives up or loses hope though she may falter in the darkest places. I thoroughly enjoyed this exceedingly well done book. Truthfully, there are some very painful places further demonstrating Amanda Bouchet’s skills as a writer who can elicit all variety of emotions from readers taking them on a journey to places of deep joy interwoven with heartbreaking agony, and other equally intense feelings along the way. The world and characters Amanda Bouchet has created hit all the right marks of action, adventure, and romance. It is such a pleasure to read a very satisfying and well-wrought end to this most enjoyable trilogy. I am left thinking about the characters long after the story has ended and longing for more. I can think of no higher compliment.

Woah! I’m in love with this series. With a lot of series the next books are never as good as the first but Amanda Bouchet pulled out all the stops and from the first chapter of the first book to end of the last book I was gripped! I could barely pull my eyes away? I would love to see some add ons about Ianthe and her centaur, Jo and Flynn and I just need to know what happens to Kato!! Please please please make some more, I can’t get enough and I think I may combust if I don’t find out what happens to kaia and her gentle giant( you all know who I mean, but I don’t wanna spoil anything)