Girls of Paper and Fire

by Natasha Ngan

Book Overview

Uncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian-inspired fantasy world in the breakout YA novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "elegant and adrenaline-soaked."

In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316561355
• ISBN13: 9780316561358
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Jimmy Patterson
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12

Customer Reviews

A Beautifully Crafted World

A great start to the epic trilogy. Lei is a strong female lead and the world is beautiful yet horrifying - a finely crafted world with gorgeous asian inspiry that is sure to keep you hooked. I felt a little disconnected from the main relationship, as one pines super obviously and the other's affection felt dull then sudden – but other than that, it's a great read.

Annoyed

It’s been almost two months and I still haven’t gotten it. I finally got it and started reading it. And now I see there are pages ripped out of it.

Item description Hardcover INCORRECT

The item description for the copy of "girls of paper and fire" that I purchased said hardcover, but I received a paper back copy. It was incorrectly marked.

Such a great story!

This was my first time reading a book with an LGBTQ+ character in it and I fell in love. This story line is so amazing along with each and every character. They really do bring the story to life. I also really love that fact that the setting is based in a fantasy-like Asia (at least I think it's based off Asia). Gay characters, demons and magic, and Asia?! I couldn't have asked for more!

Beautiful and Terrifying All At Once

A story about a beautiful palace and the lovely courtesans who live there, a palace filled with good food, beautiful dresses, and stretches of lovely, colorful gardenscapes overflowing with sweet smelling flowers. Heaven on earth, right? But there's a great darkness living in the center of the palace. The King. The king who graciously allows the Paper Girls to live there and serve him. Sometimes a beautiful palace is really a prison in disguise. Sometimes the sweetness of rich, decadent foods, is really a sickening distraction. If you want to know the terror in reading lush descriptions of a prison disguised as paradise, get this book.