By E.K. Johnston Ignore the cover. Ignore the summary. Go straight for the first page of this book and start reading because this is the single most amazing, beautiful, heartbreaking, hilarious, emotionally compromising, pulchritudinous, SOUL TEARING sequel I have ever laid eyes on in my long history of laying eyes on books. Or better yet, read the first book. Prairie Fire finishes the tale of Siobhan McQuaid and Owen Thorskgard started in The Story of Owen , where Siobhan becomes the bard of Owen, a dragon slayer. The world building in this series is phenomenal. Set in an alternate universe shaped by the existence of non-magical, carbon-consuming dragons, everything is pretty much the same as our world, but tweaked for the allowance of dragons. For example, the United States is half the size as it is in our universe, Canada claimed all the extra land, and the Sahara Desert was created through an environmental disaster caused by a dragon war. ...