Review: 3.5 stars - quick prequel - offers an origins story for Brady's new Deadglass series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2012
Hearts of Fire is set in the Seattle when it was first being settled and has a romance between, Alice, a Kivati woman - her shifter race is double-souled, gaining an animal totem soul in puberty - and, Brand, a dragon shifting Drekar from Scandinavia - his is a race of soul eaters. The Drekar's are looking for a new start in a land that offers lots of open space for their beasts to fly free and the Kivati are native the land and have in the past wiped out all of the indigenous Drekar and consider Brand and his ilk to be abominations.Both Alice and Brand feel that fate is drawing them together, and Brand thinks that he can finally find acceptanace - instead of torches and pitchforks - in the company of other shifters but when the Kivati discover that Brand is one the hated enemies, will there be war between their people.  As to the short itself, it was pretty good - the pull of fate offers the quick connection but there isn't enough here to get really invested in the pair. The Deadglass that the series is named after does make an appearance, but it's power to see ghosts is only briefly touched on, although we do learn what the invention cost Brand.This is a little prequel short to Brady's new Deadglass series, but I have to say that from reading the short I really don't have an idea of where the series is going to go. It looks like the series moves to Seattle in the future but more than that...