Yessss girl role on January 2018 for book 2 
 As someone who read The Wrath and the Dawn trilogy I was hyped to read Flame in the Mist. 
 The first chapter I wasn't disappointed. The book appeared to introduce the culture specific words in the text a lot better than TW&TD did in the first book where I got incredibly irritated flitting to the dictionary at the back every 2 words. The book introduced spiritual magic and a really interesting world. However I did become disappointed because for the first half of the book I HATED the main character Mariko. 
 Mariko is very much a "I'm very smart" character but never ever shows with an substantial actions. It got old really fast. She also comes across spoilt and privledged, which is appropriately addressed by the Black Clan later on in the book which opens her eyes thank goodness. 
 However as the book progresses she proves she is worth her "I'm very smart-ing" and is helpful to the people she is with. Yet she is not my favourite character by any means. Rather I found the Black Clan a lot more interesting. 
 The Black Clan are harbouring some mental magic skills yo. Yet it isn't explored a whole lot in this book! I'm holding out that the book will follow a similar set-up to TW&TD where magic was touched upon but discussed more in book 2. Fingers crossed. I also found the characters in the Black Clan from the chef to wolfie wolf wolf really interesting, they made me want to keep reading when I wanted to tell Mariko off. 
 I was also interested in The Dragon - Mariko's brother. I particularly liked his conflict of his role versus his personality when it is just him making decisions. I also liked the hinted at romance troubles. 
 This book is also much like TW&TD full of politics, actually it's even fuller of them. 
 I love a bit of political intrigue and the politics in this story didn't disappoint at all. At times it was a bit too vague particularly in regards to the mistress of the Emperor, but she is a bit of an enigma for now, so vague is going to happen I suppose! 
 Overall I loved this book by the end. I learnt to love Mariko too! I'm super excited for book 2 in January 2018 because there were some twists at the end that I need info on!! Ahdieh did amazing at world building as usual and I felt like I was there, even when there were hungry trees (ew)