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A review by luluwoohoo
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
☀️☀️🌤️
▪️The next installment of this fantasy series, which had so many opportunities to build upon genuinely interesting bones, manages to go backwards in every respect
▪️This novel suffers from a lot of flaws, the biggest one being it's length. The pacing is completely off to the point that even the better structured last third feels bloated and drawn out despite the actual notable plot points being so few. It's repetitive to a fault in several ways, which isn't helped at all by the downgrade in writing quality to a basic YA level which accentuates how juvenile most of this actually is
▪️ Almost every single character in this story was given no character development, and the ones that did were so predictable and trope-y that it was unsatisfactory. For a remarkably simple plot (that could have easily been done by cutting 200+ pages), Yarros fails to engage any of the formwork she built in book one to make the threats emotional and compelling (though I will admit that the final twist is decent in itself)
▪️The relationship between Violet and Xaden was never my favourite but it became downright impossible to root for them with the severe overreliance on miscommunication and lacklustre chemistry compared to the first book
▪️This series had so much potential but Yarros has wasted the opportunity by writing something generic, predictable and disappointing.
☀️☀️🌤️
▪️The next installment of this fantasy series, which had so many opportunities to build upon genuinely interesting bones, manages to go backwards in every respect
▪️This novel suffers from a lot of flaws, the biggest one being it's length. The pacing is completely off to the point that even the better structured last third feels bloated and drawn out despite the actual notable plot points being so few. It's repetitive to a fault in several ways, which isn't helped at all by the downgrade in writing quality to a basic YA level which accentuates how juvenile most of this actually is
▪️ Almost every single character in this story was given no character development, and the ones that did were so predictable and trope-y that it was unsatisfactory. For a remarkably simple plot (that could have easily been done by cutting 200+ pages), Yarros fails to engage any of the formwork she built in book one to make the threats emotional and compelling (though I will admit that the final twist is decent in itself)
▪️The relationship between Violet and Xaden was never my favourite but it became downright impossible to root for them with the severe overreliance on miscommunication and lacklustre chemistry compared to the first book
▪️This series had so much potential but Yarros has wasted the opportunity by writing something generic, predictable and disappointing.
"The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity."