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emtaylor2's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
5.0
emmymartinez's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Ironically me not liking Fourth Wing helped keep my expectations in check for this book and it was exactly what I thought it would be: an entertaining read that begins to fall apart if you poke at the seams too much. It kept me hooked, but often hovered in hate read territory. The dragons are still my favorite characters, and the cliff hanger was enough to make me want to keep reading the series.
nalia_danger's review against another edition
Just couldn't get into it. Loved the first book. Might try again someday.
hannahk114's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-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
4.0
i liked iron flame SO MUCH BETTER than the first book. the most annoying parts (aka violet being the smallest and more fragile and teeniest and shortest and weakest and did i mention smallest) of the first book chilled out a lot in this book, and she really leaned into the idea of violet being sick/ill, which i enjoyed the sexual scenes still felt a little out of place for me, but i can deal with that . Rebecca is soooo great at writing combat scenes and the final scenes of the book actually made me sob so hard, i could feel the desperation that violet was feeling . Overall I liked this so much more than the first, and cant wait for the third!
ravenlynn15's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
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? It's complicated
5.0
morganmalech's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
redbaroness's review against another edition
4.0
THIS WAS AN EMOTIONAL ROLELRCOASTER
no really, this was torture, pute torture, and we were all here for it.
There are a few points I can make without spoiling it so here we go;
•weird wording, or laying the scenes, making half the action-packed ones chaotic and incomprehensible, and making me believe the proofreading team didn't do a good job here, because of a sentence I read over thirty times and it still has me confused.
"He wraps my ribs over my armor" ouch, must be a hurtful procedure. If she meant in gauze or whatever, it was not implied in the sentence and that is the confusing part.
•next up is the again overwhelming number of characters introduced at a rapid pace, not giving enough notes about their appearance or just plainly who they are. Makes it even harder to understand the flight/fight scenes that are already hard to wrap my head around. I get there are a lot of characters, but I feel like either give them something to remember them by, or don't name them at all.
•Don't worry, I have good points to make, otherwise this wouldn't get 4 stars.
I like how it finally focused a bit more on her squad and her friends, leaving the romance with Xaden in the back for the first half of the book. Don't get me wrong, I love Xaden, but a girl needs her buddies. Tairn and Andrarna's chemistry got even better here as well, and I loved every part of it. Mainly because whatever crap Violet thinks about, Tairn counters, and then Andarna counters whatever Tairn said. We love grumpy dragons.
And now, ONTO THE SPOILERS:
•I didn't really like the fact that Violet stopped totally caring about people dying around her. I mean, she didn't, but when two characters close to her died, a part of her squad, if I'm not mistaken, she doesn't remember or think about the fact once afterwards. As if the characters never existed in the first place.
•I think we all called Xaden's second signet
•I was pretty sure someone would be turning venin as soon as Jack Barlowe revealed himself as such, so that was not as surprising, what was surprising is that I expected it to be Violet, and thought the Sage wouldn't go down that "easily", or maybe he didn't.
•Liam appearing in the cell and afterwards in the cave left me broken in pieces, thanks for that. And I am lowkey hoping Violet can see ghosts with the way it was always implied how real he felt.
•and now my favourite conversation quote:
"If you were Melgren, what would you be doing right now?"
"Shitting myself."
"Other than that?"
Honestly, I know I sound like I hate every book I read, but I feel like I might just be too critical. I loved this, it made me cry like three times, made me wish for my own family of friends, kept me on edge the whole time I was reading it, writing down around 8 theories of which three proved true and four got left unanswered. I am going to die waiting for the next one.
AND I REMEMBERED MY BIGGEST ISSUE: PUT THE PLACES YOU MENTION ON THE MAP BECAUSE IT JUST MAKES US MISERABLE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THE LOCATIONS, THANK YOU
no really, this was torture, pute torture, and we were all here for it.
There are a few points I can make without spoiling it so here we go;
•weird wording, or laying the scenes, making half the action-packed ones chaotic and incomprehensible, and making me believe the proofreading team didn't do a good job here, because of a sentence I read over thirty times and it still has me confused.
"He wraps my ribs over my armor" ouch, must be a hurtful procedure. If she meant in gauze or whatever, it was not implied in the sentence and that is the confusing part.
•next up is the again overwhelming number of characters introduced at a rapid pace, not giving enough notes about their appearance or just plainly who they are. Makes it even harder to understand the flight/fight scenes that are already hard to wrap my head around. I get there are a lot of characters, but I feel like either give them something to remember them by, or don't name them at all.
•Don't worry, I have good points to make, otherwise this wouldn't get 4 stars.
I like how it finally focused a bit more on her squad and her friends, leaving the romance with Xaden in the back for the first half of the book. Don't get me wrong, I love Xaden, but a girl needs her buddies. Tairn and Andrarna's chemistry got even better here as well, and I loved every part of it. Mainly because whatever crap Violet thinks about, Tairn counters, and then Andarna counters whatever Tairn said. We love grumpy dragons.
And now, ONTO THE SPOILERS:
•I didn't really like the fact that Violet stopped totally caring about people dying around her. I mean, she didn't, but when two characters close to her died, a part of her squad, if I'm not mistaken, she doesn't remember or think about the fact once afterwards. As if the characters never existed in the first place.
•I think we all called Xaden's second signet
•I was pretty sure someone would be turning venin as soon as Jack Barlowe revealed himself as such, so that was not as surprising, what was surprising is that I expected it to be Violet, and thought the Sage wouldn't go down that "easily", or maybe he didn't.
•Liam appearing in the cell and afterwards in the cave left me broken in pieces, thanks for that. And I am lowkey hoping Violet can see ghosts with the way it was always implied how real he felt.
•and now my favourite conversation quote:
"If you were Melgren, what would you be doing right now?"
"Shitting myself."
"Other than that?"
Honestly, I know I sound like I hate every book I read, but I feel like I might just be too critical. I loved this, it made me cry like three times, made me wish for my own family of friends, kept me on edge the whole time I was reading it, writing down around 8 theories of which three proved true and four got left unanswered. I am going to die waiting for the next one.
AND I REMEMBERED MY BIGGEST ISSUE: PUT THE PLACES YOU MENTION ON THE MAP BECAUSE IT JUST MAKES US MISERABLE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THE LOCATIONS, THANK YOU