First of all, let's take a second to appreciate this cover! This stunning book was unlike anything that I've read before! In this world, Dragons rule all, including humans. In books I've read with Dragons before, usually, the humans are the ones truly in control, it was so interesting and unique to see the roles flipped! Anahrod wants to live with her titan drake in peace but when she is rescued by outsiders, she gets roped into a journey she never expected...

This story is plot-driven, with sub-plot romance to go along! I did find this book a little difficult to get into at first, as the world-building is heavy and very detailed, but enjoyed the characters and the amazing world that the author created!

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A really great dragon story that combines Ocean’s Eleven (lacking the polish and grit of Kaz Brekker’s Crow Club) with a dragon school the doesn’t plunder from every other book series to create it’s plot. It should potential for romantasy with the lead throuple, but didn’t quite deliver on the sexy times. While I appreciate it being a standalone, I would not be sad to return to this world again and again.

Can I sparkle over a story? Cause I'm definitely sparkling over this book. First off all-- the "representation* that's in this story. So casually and brilliantly done, too! I love me some good representation and this book had boatloads of it. The idea of "garden rings" to show your pronouns and preferences is absolute genius.

The magic system is this world is top-notch, too. The bonds with dragons -- it's all so wonderful. Having dragons rule over the humans gives a nice twist to typical dragon stories and to have a whole religion built around dragons and their lore was fantastic.

I love Arahrod as a main character; she was wonderfully complex and fleshed out and you were cheering for her the entire time. I love when I can cheer for the protagonist the entire time. Arahrod's magical ability was wonderfully original and boy would I love to see more of her in a future story.. The secondary characters were fantastic as well. I loved each and every one of them, they were all so well written. Well, not some of them, but they were still written excellently as villains. Ris and Sicaryon were especially fantastic and so was Claw, Kaibren, and Naeron.

The world itself was wonderfully written, from the Deeps to the Skylands. I would like to have had more of the Deeps, but what we got was fantastic, especially Sicaryon's kingdom and the people that it contained. Gywdinion is posed to make a comeback and I would like to see more of his story as well.

All in all, this was a fantastic book and I would highly recommend it to anyone that enjoys great world-building, dragons and magic.

Personally I did struggle to read this book and so I didn’t finish. However, it is very well thought out and I did enjoy the unique world Lyons has created. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is going through their dragon phase.

First this cover is gorgeous and really does the story justice. When books say dragons they sometimes mean a bit of dragons but this story really made them a huge part of the plot.

I have mixed feelings about this because I really enjoyed the story, but - it felt like it dragged a bit in the middle and was unnecessarily long which had me feeling like I was slogging through it at some points.

Overall a great take on the dragon/dragonrider plot and the magical elements were quite unique.

Thank you for the early copy for review.

As a massive fan of Lyons' A Chorus of Dragons series, I was beyond excited to receive an ARC of The Sky on Fire. A stand-alone about dragon-riding inspired by the Pern books? Sign me up! And indeed, The Sky on Fire is a fun ride, a fantasy book with a heist core that follows a loveable collection of characters, dangerous situations, and more spice than I'd expect from a Lyons novel!

It's endearing, fun, and ultimately pretty satisfying - it probably was a little too much set-up, and not enough pay-off. I've seen a few people complain about character arcs that weren't entirely baked, and I can see that. It felt like the first 100 pages were SLOOOOWWWW. Once the gang got all together, the action kicked up and things got to fast-paced, but you had to hang in there. I appreciated the queer rep, and I appreciated the dragons - they're depicted here as complex, vicious, but not evil creatures.

All in all, this one was 3.5 stars out of 5 to me. Didn't blow me away, but I'd recommend it.

I generally liked this, but I found the character ARCs to be incomplete and ultimately unsatisfying. The writing is good, the character foundarions are there, but it's like there's no followthrough, just set-up. I wanted more development between the main trio of the book especially.

I loved this far more than I thought I would from the prologue. I almost put it down because I found the opening derivative, but it quickly grew on me as it changed into a heist novel, and a political intrigue, and a brief detour into a magical school, and well, it barely stops to take a breath. As I was reading I realised that why it felt so familiar at first was because it’s very much in conversation with Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series, which I devoured when I was a teen.

Lyons takes many of the ideas from Pern but plays them out differently, looking at dragons and telepathic bonding from a perspective where dragons have more power than the humans and play a more complex role within their society. They also have more complex personalities and relationships with humans and between dragons than Pern.

I would have liked a bit more character development and introspection; this is an action heavy novel, and character growth often seemed to happen because it needed to in order to support the action, not because the character was actually in a place they were ready to change. That’s a minor point, really, overall I devoured this book, and it was a great read!