Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

95 reviews

kmayn227's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Murder, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Medical content, Chronic illness, Blood, and Medical trauma

corrieroe's review against another edition

mysterious fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Violence, Torture, Death of parent, Death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: War, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Confinement

emilycfox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Not quite as good as Fourth Wing (honestly, that might be impossible so I knew it probably wouldn’t / couldn’t be), but Iron Flame still had a death grip on me until I finished it. I read FW and IF back-to-back, and I felt like I was living on adrenaline and almost disassociated from my life because ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS READ AND ALL I WAS THINKING ABOUT WAS THIS SERIES. I read literally all night until 7am or later multiple times. I was so sad when I finished IF because now I have to wait until the next book is released. But at the same time, the flood of relief I felt when I finished was PALPABLE (like after you turn in the last thing during exam WEEK after running on fumes for days) lol. I was like thank god I’m no longer held captive by these books and can relax now and get back to my normal life haha
A few things that brought it down from 5 stars for me: Violet and Xaden’s relationship dynamic gets pretty repetitive and frustrating, but I’m hoping that it was intentional and we’ll see growth from them moving forward. I also didn’t like how many times the story jumped forward to the next day or several days / weeks later because I felt like I was missing things (like, did they talk about xyz but we didn’t see it or have they not even discussed it?). I just want to know what happens every minute of every day!! Even the “boring” day-to-day stuff because that’s when we get to see Violet’s friends and learn more about the world :( but I also get that it’s already a long book. Similar to FW, the writing is simply fine — not so bad it ruins the story but also not fantastic (I swear to god everything is measured in heartbeats as if this world does not have any other unit to measure time)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Body horror, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, War, Murder, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Animal death, and Xenophobia

christinereads1823's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

Great sequel. Yarros's world building is intricate and magnetic, woven so tightly with the development of plot and character arcs that the book is practically impossible to put down.  
The twist ending seems utterly cruel, and I'm oddly excited to see what the third book does with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, and War

bcope84's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, War, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Stalking, Torture, Abandonment, Bullying, and Chronic illness

weecore's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Grief, Colonisation, and Cultural appropriation

ekgranstro's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Definitely a fun and engaging read, but prepare for a deluge of cringe moments. Also smut.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Kidnapping, and Torture

Moderate: Chronic illness and Grief

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Ableism, Grief, Gore, Colonisation, Animal cruelty, Torture, Abandonment, Chronic illness, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful 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

Iron Flame is the second book in the Empyrean series. The first book, Fourth Wing follows Violet who has trained all her life to be a scribe. But when her mother demands she joins the war college to be a dragon rider, she finds herself thrown into a challenging situation. With her chronic illness and lack of strength, she finds herself having to fight to prove herself and live to become a dragon rider.
The way the ending of this book had me wanting to scream in the car when I listened to it. I know there was a lot of mixed reviews of this book but I absolutely loved it so much. I really loved seeing how Violet's realtionship with her fellow cadets and her relationship with Xaden developed. After the events of the last book I was so interested to see how this was going to develop. I thought that Rebecca Yarros did push a lot into this book but I found that it was pretty easy to follow. It makes me interested to see what the other books will have in store.
I found this to be a satisfying sequel to a book that I really loved. I am so interested to see what is going to happen in the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, and Chronic illness

krismis90's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Violence, Chronic illness, and Death