A review by mari_books
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

2.75

The first part of this book was fine and engaging, but the second part actually lost me so bad - the battle scenes were extremely poorly written and the character development suffered from a lot of cliches. The world building is also sloppy, she makes a lot of assumptions about what readers will remember and it’s tiring to not understand several paragraphs. The ending I loathed and thought could have been way different. I will be curious if the author can turn it around in the next book because compared to the first book this one was honestly not worth my time…