Honestly, she is typically in the arms of a man who is carrying her. She gets stronger throughout the book, but she still needs a lot of rest and is often put in the middle of men fighting over her.

Merci is weak, from having just gotten over a typically life threatening illness. Really, it was fascinating seeing how everything played out. There is a plot, but the main focus is what the characters are doing, how they are doing it, and how they are reacting to each other, all the while uncovering everyone's motives. The culture within Caprica is very flawed Caprica is suffering under an epidemic of sickness, the male nobles' constant breeding, and an uncaring governing official.įires of Caprica is character driven. Thankfully, there were no explicit sensual scenes. Eventhough the book has a main character who is a teen, I think this book is on the older side of YA, maybe even venturing into NA, due to some topics touched upon. One of those intense scenes involve our protagonist, Merci, being beat.

There are some intense scenes and mature topics. Someone who stays hidden in the dark shadows and only shows himself when he is trying to destroy the evidence that the fever can be defeated. Someone who doesn’t want me to find a cure. There is a force in the dark that neither the Jackal nor the Duke can protect me from. With his help, I grow strong enough to walk the canals at night, bringing hope to those who have no access to medicine. A thief stealing from the nobles like some hero from a tale of old. No matter what he says or how he requests that I return to the palace life where I had grown up as an orphan.īut I have caught the attention of another. I am no longer the beautiful girl that haunted the dreams of the Grand Duke, Vane. Left with scars and an unusual change to my eyes, I hide myself in the hospital ward, tending to patients that I know will die where I had lived. I was a physician’s assistant, then I became his experiment.īy the tigers that roam her canals at night searching for food and from a fever that leaves no survivors.

Fires of Caprica by Mandy O'Dell