MAGIC AWAKENS.
DARKNESS SWELLS.
AND A HERO RISES.
It’s been a year since Tamsyn transformed from the enemy in Fell’s bed to the wife he sacrificed himself to save. From an ordinary girl to Penterra’s best hope to keep magic from disappearing forever.
With Fell torn from her side in the dangerous swirling mists of the Crags, Tamsyn is alone among the dragon pride. An outsider learning to survive in her new home, she trains until her muscles burn and her blood spills. And slowly, a warrior emerges.
But is Fell truly beyond Tamsyn’s reach? Their bond pulls at her, as does the fierce drive to protect both humans and dragonkind from a relentless enemy determined to destroy her – and all magic.
Magic stirs in the darkness, strengthening all who believe in it. But will it be enough to save the pride, the kingdom, and a love fated to endure for centuries?
In this explosive sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling A Fire in the Sky, the fate of magic rests on one warrior’s shoulders – but it could cost her everything …
🔥Fated mates
🔥Magic, dragons, and witches
🔥Spice
DARKNESS SWELLS.
AND A HERO RISES.
It’s been a year since Tamsyn transformed from the enemy in Fell’s bed to the wife he sacrificed himself to save. From an ordinary girl to Penterra’s best hope to keep magic from disappearing forever.
With Fell torn from her side in the dangerous swirling mists of the Crags, Tamsyn is alone among the dragon pride. An outsider learning to survive in her new home, she trains until her muscles burn and her blood spills. And slowly, a warrior emerges.
But is Fell truly beyond Tamsyn’s reach? Their bond pulls at her, as does the fierce drive to protect both humans and dragonkind from a relentless enemy determined to destroy her – and all magic.
Magic stirs in the darkness, strengthening all who believe in it. But will it be enough to save the pride, the kingdom, and a love fated to endure for centuries?
In this explosive sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling A Fire in the Sky, the fate of magic rests on one warrior’s shoulders – but it could cost her everything …
🔥Fated mates
🔥Magic, dragons, and witches
🔥Spice
Title: A Scar In the Bone (A Fire in The Sky #2)
Author: Sophie Jordan
Publisher:
Expected Publication Date: October 14, 2025
Review:
Thank you to Avon Harper Voyager, HarperAudio Adult, and NetGalley for providing me with this title to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I was excited for the second installment of this book. I enjoyed A Fire In the Sky (and have enjoyed many of Sophie Jordan's other books). I was anticipating this would go to great places. Unfortunately, this book suffered from what I like to call second book syndrome. This at times happens in a series of books where the second book needs to lead you to a certain place but takes a painstakingly slow time to get there. This book suffered from that and more.
Let me comment on the narrators. I did enjoy them. I do not think I've listened to anything narrated by Karen Cass orFiona Hardingham before and I'm not sure which of them did what parts since the one narrator was just a chapter at the end. But their voices were nice and easy to understand. I do believe I've heard Joe Jameson before and was happy with how he portrayed the male character.
I'll also mention how beautiful the cover of this book is. I would definitely be accused of judging a book by it's cover with this one.
This book starts out a year after the previous book, which ended on a bit of a cliffhanger. So I was expecting it to start with a boom and go from there. But it did not. Tamsyn is living with the Pride and Fell is gone. Like what happened in that year? We're just supposed to accept all that time has passed and not even get flashbacks to show us what happened? It made no sense. I honestly thought I had forgotten the ending of the first book so I went back to read the last few chapters again and realized I didn't forget anything. We were just plopped into the story at a totally different time. The first 25% of the book is Tamsyn still adjusting and being outcast by members of the Pride. Then she leaves and goes off on what I'm assuming is supposed to be an adventure to get her to where she needs to go but just turns out to be a trek that was slow paced and really didn't add anything to the story for me. I was completely bored and struggled to push through. I was glad to have the audio for the last 25% as it was easier to listen to the book rather than read it on my Kindle.
Not to mention the romance. There's a scene that happens and it makes zero sense. There's not chemistry between Tamsyn and Vetr and we're just supposed to accept there is. That she is suddenly attracted to her husband's twin brother and that's not weird? I really disliked that this was even part of the story. And the whole breeding thing, that's all the female dragons are good for? Nope. I thought this book would take Fell and Tamsyn's love story further and show it expand and grow. But since he's absent for most of the book (I totally predicted he was not actually dead because that really would have ruined the entire story) it's hard to route for them.
There were so many times I wanted to DNF this book. But I really thought if I pushed through it would start become better. That I would fall back in love with the characters I loved in the first book. But it didn't happen. This book felt like a completely different story from the first book with the huge time jump, missing the main character who made book 1 something exciting, and the long trek disguised as a quest to find something important.
Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be continuing on with this series. I just cannot see myself enjoying anything further in this world.
Author:
Sophie Jordan took her adolescent daydreaming one step further and penned her first historical romance in the back of her high school Spanish class. This passion led her to pursue a degree in English and History.
A brief stint in law school taught her that case law was not nearly as interesting as literature - teaching English seemed the natural recourse. After several years teaching high school students to love Antigone, Sophie resigned with the birth of her first child and decided it was time to pursue the long-held dream of writing.
In less than three years, her first book, Once Upon A Wedding Night, a 2006 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Nominee for Best First Historical, hit book shelves. Her second novel, Too Wicked To Tame, released in March 2007 with a bang, landing on the USA Today Bestseller's List.
A brief stint in law school taught her that case law was not nearly as interesting as literature - teaching English seemed the natural recourse. After several years teaching high school students to love Antigone, Sophie resigned with the birth of her first child and decided it was time to pursue the long-held dream of writing.
In less than three years, her first book, Once Upon A Wedding Night, a 2006 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Nominee for Best First Historical, hit book shelves. Her second novel, Too Wicked To Tame, released in March 2007 with a bang, landing on the USA Today Bestseller's List.
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