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Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

246 reviews

pastorscratchy1reads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I liked the book overall, but the amount of cursing and explicit scenes is quite frankly ridiculous. I would give this book 5 stars if it weren't for that.

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bookboyfriend4life's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0


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boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Iron Flame is the second book in the Empyrean series. The first book, Fourth Wing follows Violet who has trained all her life to be a scribe. But when her mother demands she joins the war college to be a dragon rider, she finds herself thrown into a challenging situation. With her chronic illness and lack of strength, she finds herself having to fight to prove herself and live to become a dragon rider.
The way the ending of this book had me wanting to scream in the car when I listened to it. I know there was a lot of mixed reviews of this book but I absolutely loved it so much. I really loved seeing how Violet's realtionship with her fellow cadets and her relationship with Xaden developed. After the events of the last book I was so interested to see how this was going to develop. I thought that Rebecca Yarros did push a lot into this book but I found that it was pretty easy to follow. It makes me interested to see what the other books will have in store.
I found this to be a satisfying sequel to a book that I really loved. I am so interested to see what is going to happen in the next book.

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kotashomelibrary's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0


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rosieholmes99's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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coraotf's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0


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mitzee's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I’ve seen quite a few reviews that say this book is not as good as the first but I don’t think I noticed a difference. (I’ll also say I didn’t find the first to be exceptional to begin with.) I did like how things progressed and I felt there were either fewer cringey sex scenes or perhaps I just got used to them so those aspects were major pluses for me.  

Nevertheless I will probably read the next one when it comes out so now I will write a recap for myself:


Violet continues to be an absolute idiot when it comes to relationships and is really lacking self confidence to the degree that I really don’t understand Xaiden’s continued interest. I suppose I will just chalk it up to them being in their early 20s because I guess I didn’t recognize red flag either at that age. 

Andarna finally grows up and is revealed to be a seventh type of mysterious dragon - purple! Whatever that means. Apparently she’s been sitting around for a hundred years just waiting for the right human to come along and be her best friend? I still don’t understand why dragons continue to give ANY shits about humans when they seem to be far superior. Although Taryn said that dragons befriended humans because humans can do magic? Or have thumbs? One of those reasons. But if that’s the case then how did the seven dragons put up the wards? Clearly they can also do magic. 

Violets mom died which, as a reader, I couldn’t care less about but I assume some emotional growth will come from it. And on the same night Xaiden becomes a venin. So it will be interesting to see how long it takes for Violet to kill him, I assume it will be the entirety of book 3. I don’t know how the dragons haven’t already done this. I assume they know something is up with him, especially Sigail. 

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blairlynn's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Wow! What a ride!

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librarianeno's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was a wild ride. It took about halfway for me to be fully invested and then 8 hours to finish the book after that. So a slow build but then a very fast end. It's hard to review this one without giving away the ending. 

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tropico98's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.75


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