Reviews - Corazón de hierro

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Corazón de hierro

Nina Varela

4.2 AVERAGE

pestowing's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny 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

marissa5793's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mehon123's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

violetivyes's review against another edition

“Wars were won by whichever side caused the most suffering. How was that something to be proud of?”

bexerin's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous slow-paced

halftime_human's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

julies_reading's review against another edition

3.0

Following the events of Crier's War, Crier faces her impending wedding to evil Scyre Kinok while Ayla is headed to Varn to try to find her brother in Queen Junn's court. When Crier discovers a darker secret and runs away, she is forced to flee the country and pose as a human orphan. When Ayla arrives at court, she is immediately taken in as an honored guest instead of needing to spy. Now in reversed roles, the girls must fight for a world in which the two Kinds can live in peace.

If you don't want spoilers for my vlog in which I read this (coming some time in August, once I get my hands on the last book I'm reading for it!), don't read ahead!

Crier's War got me out of a slump last year after I was going through some emotional slump and I will never forget it for that. It was easy to get through and fun, with a great mutual pining relationship to root for and a really interesting world that's a combination of fantasy and sci-fi. This had a lot of the elements that I liked of the first book, but unfortunately wasn't quite as enthralling.

Crier and Ayla are a super cute couple. You gotta love WLW "wait does she like me? do I like her?" angst. The two of them are also distinct from each other in their thought processes and actions, which is often something that debut authors miss entirely. I really like the historical inserts/ letters/ documents that get put in between the chapters, I think they really expand the world and it's one of my favorite things in a fantasy book. I liked the Shadows, where we see the outcome of using Nightshade. However, this was just not as well structured as the first one, particularly for a finale. This series definitely could have been three books if you really needed to separate the two of them AND have a "war." They don't meet up until halfway through the book, which sucks because the strongest part of the series is the relationship. The plot, which was super interesting in the first book, just wasn't as strong in this one. The pacing was a bit weird and it felt like the evil was too easily defeated. That said, I still had a fun time reading this and it was super easy to get through. I can't wait to see what Varela comes up with next, even if this wasn't my favorite yet of hers.