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We follow Daniela Vargas, who is graduating from the Medio School for Girls at the start of the novel. While this did feel familiar in many ways and wasn’t outstandingly original, I also think it stood apart from these other works and had something new to say. It is comparable to works like The Handmaids Tale or Girls of Paper and Fire – but is also distinct from these, primarily in how it more strongly deals with politics, protest and the impacts of poverty and race. We Set the Dark on Fire is a wlw, latinx inspired YA fantasy that incorporates modern-day political concerns, especially those emerging in the Trump era, and explores poverty, sexuality, misogyny and race and how these identities intersect. This book was chosen by my twitter followers as my book to read in Novemberand I actually ended up enjoying it A LOT more than I thought I would

I’m not signing up to set things on fire.” Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or to give up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of a free Medio-and a chance at a forbidden love? But nothing prepares her for all the difficult choices she must make, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. Now that her marriage to an important politico’s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret-that her pedigree is a lie.

Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Read if you liked: The Handmaids Tale, Girls of Paper and FireĪt the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society.

content warnings: government-sanctioned violence (murder of protestors), allusions to rape and sexual violence, misogyny, bombings.