A review by mistysbookspace
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

5.0

I was impatiently waiting for this to be released and as soon as we had copies in hand Destiny and I started our buddy read. I've loved buddy reading this series with her.

My copy of this book didn't come in until the day after it released so I was trying really hard to avoid spoilers. I didn't get spoiled for anything thankfully but people were having thoughts about the ending. I didn't get spoiled for exactly what happened but I saw a lot of posts on Instagram where they were saying they weren't ready for that or they weren't ok after that ending. Because of all those posts my anxiety was through the roof. I'm not an anxious person except for when it comes to books. 

I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit though. First off After finishing Fourth Wing I was fully invested. I was loving the world and the characters and relationships and I needed more. This book picks up pretty much right after the ending of book one. I loved how the author didn't do a time jump here because I was really wanting to pick up where they left off because I was hoping to get some answers and that is exactly what we got. 

The pacing of this one was all over the place. It went from being action packed fast paced to slower paced. I know this is frustrating to some people but I was so invested in everything that was happening I didn't really care but I did notice it so I thought I would mention it. There's so much I could talk about but I'm trying to keep my spoilers as vague as possible. I'm still 1000% invested in the romance. And I'm loving the found family of shorts that Violet has and I'm loving seeing those relationships grow.

Something happens to one of the side characters toward the end that I'm really interested to see how Rebecca handles it in the next book. Now for the ending. Some people will consider this to be spoilery which is why I labeled my review as spoilery but its a very vague spoiler. So as I mentioned early on people had my anxiety through the roof with all their reactions to the ending. Once I read the ending I was like oh that's it? It wasn't what I was expecting at all. I'm not happy about what happened but I also think this is something they can come back from and that's all I will say on that. 

Overall another amazing book and I can't wait for the next book to be released. I really hope we don't have to wait to long and hopefully we will get another 2 books just like we did this  year.