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Iron Flame

Rebecca Yarros

4.21 AVERAGE

fast-paced

4.5. wth just happened
dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book was a bit all over the place, I'm not quite sure what the whole first section where Violet is back at the academy was supposed to achieve, and then so much happened in the second half that it was difficult to keep up. Also why are they all so bad at talking to one another?! 
adventurous 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: No
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
adventurous lighthearted slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I thought the series would get better after the first book, but it never did. This book had me confused as to why this series is popular at all.
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
adventurous fast-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

I skimmed a big chunk of this one and the next one as well. I feel like the first book as definitely more exciting. Still not terrible though. 

2.75 bc 3 stars feels too generous. the last 100 pages were incredible, but unfortunately the first 540 were… not.