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A review by frenchfrybri
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
3.0
this is getting a 3 star rating just like book 1 because it also just NEEDED AN EDITOR!!! so bad!! but had SO much potential! it was not as gripping as fourth wing, it didn’t have me quite as obsessed but what the book was trying to do i thought was way more interesting than fourth wing:
**minor spoiler ahead esp if you haven’t read fourth wing yet**
miss yarros got SO CLOSE. sosososo close!!!!!! and then missed the whole dang point– the refugees fleeing, border restrictions, letting innocent children and families die just because they’re from another country, ordinary civilians unfairly facing the consequences of their country’s poor leadership and being mercilessly slaughtered by people who are only interested in amassing more power and are overtaken by their own greed—it could’ve culminated in SUCH an amazing commentary on the global refugee crisis and the southern border of the US. but it didn’t!! because the solution to all that was “we need more military but specifically the NICE military
**minor spoiler ahead esp if you haven’t read fourth wing yet**
miss yarros got SO CLOSE. sosososo close!!!!!! and then missed the whole dang point– the refugees fleeing, border restrictions, letting innocent children and families die just because they’re from another country, ordinary civilians unfairly facing the consequences of their country’s poor leadership and being mercilessly slaughtered by people who are only interested in amassing more power and are overtaken by their own greed—it could’ve culminated in SUCH an amazing commentary on the global refugee crisis and the southern border of the US. but it didn’t!! because the solution to all that was “we need more military but specifically the NICE military