I don’t know what it was but the story didn’t grip me in this one. Hakon felt like a 2 dimensional Orek to me and it was hard to appreciate his romance.
Still enjoyable but definitely not my favorite.

S.E. Wendel has done it again. A wonderful harmony of romance and fantasy, Ironling is an amazing addition to the world of Eirea. I did enjoy the first book, but what ultimately brought me to Ironling was the fact that I could not stop thinking about this world. And when I finally picked it up and realized that it was a romance between two disabled characters I was immediately hooked.

The love between Hakon and Aislinn is so compelling and even though I’m not one to reread books, I know I’ll be going back over passages in this story. I’m also impressed by how different storylines run alongside each other, how instead of each story starting where the previous one ends that everyone’s lives are happening at the same time. It was really well done and it’s fun to catch sides and scenes where you know what’s going on outside the main character’s purview. Anyways it was a great time and I can’t wait to read the next one.