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A review by sashahc
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Today is Taylor Kay Mejía’s YA “We Set The Dark on Fire.”  Dani’s parents forged her identification papers to send her to an exclusive school training wives for Medio’s elite.  After graduating as one of the two wives of the assumed next president, she is immediately and unwillingly conscripted as a spy by a resistance organization that intends to bring down the government however it can.  This threatens to upend the life she’s fought for and that her family is relying on.  It’s got thriller spy vibes, deeply abolitionist and anti-border roots, tarot cards, and enemies-to-lovers queer longing.