Book profile
Firebird
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2025-04-10
- Rating
- ★ 3.7 · 35 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
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A Roman dragon-shifter general and a captive Dacian witch navigate a conqueror-and-captured dynamic that slowly evolves through enemies-to-lovers tension into a fated bond transcending imperial law. Their slow-burn attraction develops as they conspire against a mad emperor amid dragon deathriders, with prophecy hinging on the heroine. The relationship is darkened by slavery, battlefield violence, and the ever-present threat of heartbreak or death.
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- Dragon Romance: “he instinctively shifts into his fierce dragon form to save her” source
- Enemies to Lovers: “full of enemies-to-lovers steam” source
- Prophecy: “A witch prophesied to save them all” source
- Slow Burn: “Their slow burn is the kind that sets your soul on simmer and then suddenly boils over” source
- Strong Heroine: “Fierce and powerful, twenty-one-year old Malina has survived the loss of her family and is determined to fight” source
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Content note violence
Edition publication 2025-04-08
Reading order Book 1
Series The Fire That Binds
Trope captive romance
Macmillan · ISBN 9781250339959 · US
The rules of their world dictate that he is the conqueror and she is the captured.Read the original source
