Phoenix tamed?

Of Flame and Fury by Mikayla Bridge      

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A world of magic where the phoenix are tethered and raced. It’s not a gentle world. Kel Varra is a phoenix trainer whose phoenix Savita she’s had from infancy and trained to race!

When her racing team’s numbers (the Crimson Howlers) are reduced by the death of their rider, it seems to survive Kel will have to join with another team to form a new group. That group? Her “neck or nothing” rival and rider, Warren Couper “Coup” and what’s left of his team, The Star Chasers.

When the newly formed group is offered sponsorship from a huge tech company they accept, although Kel has misgivings. As the saying goes, beware of those bearing gifts.

Different treatment of a trope where powerful corporations corrupt, ecological factors are ignored, and magical creatures subdued.

A Macmillan Children’s Group ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.