We Hunt the Flame
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| Author | Hafsah Faizal |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Publication date | May 2019 |
| Publication place | United States |
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We Hunt the Flame is a 2019 young adult fantasy romance novel written by Hafsah Faizal. It is the first book of the Sands of Arawiya duology, followed by We Free the Stars in January 2021.[1]
Hafsah Faizal wrote four other manuscripts before starting the first draft of We Hunt the Flame.[2] She found her literary agent through the Twitter book pitch contest #DVPit, finishing up the first draft of what would ultimately become We Hunt the Flame just before the contest started.[3] Faizal first got the idea to write the novel at age 17, when she first came into contact with the young adult novel scene, due to being a book blogger.[4] Hafsah Faizal was inspired by The Hunger Games and The Lord of the Rings, asking herself the question "what if the games were set in a fantasy world?" and using that as the basis for her story.[5]
Faizal reports during her writing process, she began to sketch a map and found that the map closely represented Arabia and decided to write the book in a setting that was more familiar to her.[6] Faizal set the story in a world reminiscent of ancient Arabia, avoiding ties to South Asian cultures that she states are often wrongfully entwined with stories about the Middle East.[4]
