lekohles 's review for:

Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine
5.0

This book STRESSED ME OUT. In a way this series reminds me of Harry Potter, it starts out with these young adults trying to succeed at challenges and just make it in the world and some dark stuff seems to be happening around the edges. And then somehow it turns into full on conflict and war. Book three was a tough read for me so I was worried book 4 would also prove to be a bit of slog sometimes but I was wrong. I couldn't put the book down. I needed to know what would happen next. I have really come to love a bunch of these characters, especially Wolfe and Santi and Glain. Maybe that's another way this feels like Harry Potter - you feel like you know these people and it doesn't feel like fiction. I know a miniseries could never do it justice, but oh I would watch the hell out of it.