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Iron & Embers

Helen Scheuerer

4.17 AVERAGE

rosiehyde's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mandapanda20m's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I love Wren’s character even more than I did in the last series. And I loved the soft moments we got to see of Torj. The academic setting in this book was everything I wanted. It was lush and colorful, I loved all the garden and forest scenes. I also loved learning about all of the different plants and their uses and getting to see Cal and Kipp show up as prominent characters in this book as well. It was fun getting to see different sides to them. That ending made me so mad though!!

1girl2manybooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

miadb's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense

yerin's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

Dnf at 18%

kara_delozier's review

2.0

Didn’t hit for me…it didn’t keep my attention. The trials were mundane and the gauntlet ended up being such a small portion in the end. None of the relationships were developed outside of the main romance, which was predictable. It would’ve been nice to have more character development from her teammates instead of keeping Cal and Kipp around. Dessa was pretty inconsequential.

stephreadsnow's review against another edition

3.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

When Autumn revealed this would be one of Fairyloot’s Romantasy picks, the first thing I did was look up if I had to read the Blood and Steel series because I didn’t have 4 extra books in me when my tbr is already so neglected. multiple wonderful people on the internet who read the arc said it wasn’t necessary but obviously would help. And they were right.

If I had read that 4 book series I’m sure I would have liked this. But, alas, it was just fine. I didn’t read through the war and trauma of Wren losing her best friends and sister, I didn’t get Torj and Wren’s backstory of meeting and slow burn part of this romance from the first series. I just got the …yearning? And spicy part. I wouldn’t even call it yearning, they were just horny for each other the whole book, but I guess in a more loving way? These characters already felt developed and I just got the end of their love story.

The ending should have knocked this down to two stars. I won’t be continuing the series.