SuitabookFire witch
Matt Ralphs
- Reading
- As this is a sequel, first check whether your reader knows Fire Girl or would welcome beginning with earlier context. While reading, track Hazel's choices, the changing trust around Murrell and how the book treats the cost of recovering her mother.
- Themes
- Determination and sacrifice: Hazel pursues her mother after Hecate sacrifices herself to prevent a demonic invasion, despite the stated risk and cost. The premise clearly foregrounds devotion and sacrifice, but it does not show whether Hazel's pursuit is ultimately affirmed, criticised or reconsidered.
- Trust under disguise: Hazel disguises herself as a boy to enter the Order of Witch Hunters and reach Murrell, whose responsibility for Hecate's loss makes him difficult to trust. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes a mother's self-sacrifice, a demonic invasion, imprisonment and dangerous infiltration. If these themes may be intense for your reader, consider reading alongside them and pausing to discuss the fictional peril.