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Iron Flame - Flammengeküsst by Rebecca Yarros

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lorraine19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I put this on par with the first book. Definitely more heavy on the trigger warnings. There are some absolutely brutal scenes that make deaths from the first book seem tame. Don't take that warning in the beginning of the book lightly. That being said, this book plays on all the emotions and is just wonderfully written.

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spaghettii's review against another edition

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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

4.5

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orakuruno's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

the drama is so real i love it

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frantically's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

violet: xaden i can't do this if you keep keeping secrets from me
xaden: *proceeds to keep even more secrets from her*
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I know, I know, many of you hated the romance drama here but before I am a Romantasy or Fantasy girlie, I am a Romance girlie and lemme tell you, I LIVED for this

Xaden and Violet still love eachother so much and I know in my heart that they'll make it but I could still understand all their fights and disagreements and I could also understand Violet's perspective (even if many here seem to not 🙃). And their making up scenes were the best hihi

What I absolutely hated was the OW drama 🙅🏻‍♀ sooo unnecessary

I would've loved some more action from the start! Violet finds out there's a revolution, oh my god 😍 and then she...goes back to school? And then they all join the revolution! Fun! 🥳 And then...they have more school? Yeah, that's a thing readers have often complained about when books are set in a school but maybe there was a reason the school part wasn't always present 😭 It got boring so quickly. I still found it quite comforting (yeah I know, kinda weird) for some reason, just like book 1, but it was also boring (those things CAN coexist).

But once we get into the action and all the gryphon riders get important, too, I was so ready for it! Violet leaving Basgiath also sees her entering a whole new dimension of this war and the way it's going to impact the whole continent.

I still don't really understand the whole Darkwielder/Venin thing and its details but going by that ending we'll soon find out more 👀

The ending part before the ending (y'know) got a bit too messy for me and didn't have the emotional punch for me that it obviously had for Violet. Just couldn't feel that connection!

A connection I *could* feel was Mira & Violet <3 absolute highlight 🥹 (Brennan's a bit annoying though ngl)

No matter my few criticisms, I spent every minute I had listening to this book and I'm soo excited for the next one 🙏🏻

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athenian_frog's review against another edition

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I’m glad I tried, but it feels very long. Also the multiple interruptions to drool over Xaden were getting grating. I think the author could have benefitted from just describing Xaden’s attractive points in a good way instead of just having Violet straight up tell us “HES SO HOT GUYS I’m down bad 🥵🥵🥵”

The main two can’t communicate for shit. Sure she got together with the “leader of a revolution” or whatever but you’re in a serious relationship. Be for real. Violet is understandably feeling very insecure bc everything she knows is turning out to be fake (her image of the world, her brother’s death), she’s annoying but I kinda see why LOL.

The other thing is that the side characters still feel p flat. Most of what they say and do exists to prop Violet up in the eyes of the reader, very transparently. They don’t seem to have much going on in their lives even tho they’re in the same school. I think the only character I really got attached to was Jesinia.

There’s also a lot fo focus on anyone except the protagonists literal formerly dead brother from book one 💀💀💀 he’s been as relevant and explored as a potted plant,,, it’s annoying the hell outta me that we haven’t fleshed him out AT ALL 9 hours into the book. He’s been built up a good amount in book 1.

Anyways I might come back to this but I think I’ll be fine just reading a synopsis.

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elntastic's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

What a trip this book was…first and foremost: I didn’t love it as much as the first one but it’s still an amazing book nonetheless. Most annoying was def the interactions and the drama between Violet and Xaden…most if the time I didn’t even understand why she was mad or what her point was and it seemed as though she didn’t either. The whole „ask me“-thing annoyed me as hell! Like just tell her ?! Why make a „game“ out of it? I often also felt that the author made the reader miss out on a lot of their interactions and I felt like I missed out on much of the two of them together. This book was much more focused on Violet and her development as a character and a rider as well as her relationship with her friends, which I did like but I just wish there was also more Xaden in it. The fact that we only got one decent sex scene kinda disappointed me tbh but that’s just personal preference hahah. One thing I especially liked was Andarnas development and sassiness! I felt like she wasn’t as important in the first book but in this book she def was! And I love her so much! In conclusion I suppose we can all agree that the ending was heartbreaking and it def made me tear up but I don’t think all hope is lost. I‘m sure Violet will find some way as she always does.

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