My thoughts on Firevein: The Awakening (Firevein Saga Book 1) by Hanna Park

 

Firevein: The Awakening 
(Firevein Saga Book 1)
By Hanna Park

Publication Date: 14th April 2026

Publisher: Baisong Press 

Print Length: 246 Pages

Genre: Fantasy Romance 

I went to Røros for a wedding—not to fall for a man

who looked at me like he had already mourned me once.

From the first moment Rurik touched me, something beneath my skin burned. Every kiss felt inevitable. Every glance pressed at the edge of memory. He says I’ve lived before, that I’ve died before, that he has loved me through it all. I don’t remember him—but the mountain does.

The tunnels beneath Røros hum when I pass. Runes flare in the stone. The deeper I fall into his arms, the more something inside me begins to awaken—hot, wild, and impossible to ignore. I was never meant to survive what should have killed me. Now something ancient is stirring, and I can’t shake the feeling that it’s because I did.

I have buried Cristabel in every lifetime—though she has worn different names.

Across centuries, I have found her and lost her to the curse my bloodline was sworn to guard. She was never meant to live this time—but she did. Now the fire in her veins is awakening too soon. The balance beneath the mountain is shifting, and the oath I have carried for generations is beginning to fracture.

I waited lifetimes to hold her again. This time, I will not let her go—even if saving her means unleashing what should have remained buried.

A steamy Nordic fantasy romance of reincarnation, fate, and fire.

Triggers: Female cancer survivor. Steamy open-door scenes. 

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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Cover Art: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Snow, Christmas lights, a wedding in Norway… honestly, what could be better? That’s exactly the sort of cosy atmosphere Firevein: The Awakening starts with, before things gradually become far stranger and far more emotional than I expected.

Cristabel Johnson arrives for her friend’s wedding and almost immediately meets Rurik, who looks at her as though he already knows her somehow. From there, things escalate fairly quickly.

I ended up becoming surprisingly attached to Cristabel as the story went on. She talks constantly, jokes about everything, and comes across as someone trying very hard to stay cheerful. Then you slowly realise how much hurt she’s carrying underneath all of that. The parts about her cancer and being abandoned during it genuinely upset me because the book handles it quite quietly, which somehow makes it hit harder.

The romance is immediate and very physical, so this is definitely not a slow-burn sort of romantasy . But the connection between them feels emotional as well as physical, like there’s something much older tying them together.

I also really enjoyed the mythical side of the story. The gradual realisation that not everyone in this world is actually human gave the book a really immersive atmosphere. By the end, the snowy town felt just as important as the characters themselves.

Very romantic, very spicy — and much more emotional than I expected it to be.

I began my writing career in the pre-dawn of a winter morning while my husband snored like a train. We could call my husband the catalyst. If it weren’t for him, I would never have gone to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, feed the cat, and sit on the loveseat in front of the fire. It was there, in those moments of wondrous quiet, that I did something I had never thought possible. I opened my laptop, and while the coffee went cold, I wrote a story. My husband had no idea that these sojourns to the loveseat in front of the fire would become a daily occurrence, that writing would become an obsession, but the cat knew. She knows everything.

I write stories that make you laugh, make you cry, and make you love. Thank you, friends, for reading!

In the beginning, there was an empty page.

I am a writer who lives in Muskoka, Canada, with a husband who snores, a hungry cat, and an almost perfect canine––he’s an adorable little shit.

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