5⭐️ 1🌶 I finished Bright Burns the Flame by Angelina J. Steffort last evening. This was another ARC. This was written in the third person which sort of threw me. Most of what I read is in 1st person. Even with it being in 3rd person we as readers really only got the FMC, Lory's perspective. The world building was methodical, detailed, epic but not overwhelming. Lory lives in the slums on the street barely surviving. She strategically picks marks from a local brothel to rob. This time she chooses the wrong mark and after giving chase is caught. She's taken to prison, brought before the triad and will be executed the next day. Moments before she is beheaded she is given a choice, death or enrollment into a vicious military academy she only heard about the day before from a fellow prisoner. She chooses Ashthorn Ward. She's taken there by the most gorgeous man she's ever encountered the MMC Khayrivven Falcr...