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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

Rebecca Yarros

Start date: December 17, 2023

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Jan 13, 2024 Anne OK rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2024-reads, 2024-5-star-reads

For someone who has never really been a fan of the fantasyworld, I was completely blown away by the first two books in Rebecca Yarros's epic Empyrean Series from the slow and steady build-up to holycraptastic wild rides astraddle the dragons in the sky!

I was completely captured and held prisoner by this author's creative world-building skills, the master plotting that moves swftly with twists, red-herrings and an all-around diversified cast of well-developed characters who simply mesmerize with ...more

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Jul 10, 2024 Shan ~A~ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, family, crime, animals, back-to-school, books-featuring-books, siblings, fantasy, paranormal, in-series-or-trilogy

Violet Sorrengail & Xaden Riorson

There are so many things going on in this book that it's hard to put into words without giving anything away. What I will see is that Violet continues to grow. It was definitely to her benefit that she had been trained to a scribe before becoming a rider. It is also to her benefit that she is an adept student, and she is a survivor. She is going to fight hard for what she believes in and for the people she cares about.

She and Xaden have an unbreakable bond that ...more

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Nov 14, 2023 Nicci rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, fantasy, dragons

I love Violet Sorrengail’s determination.

Iron Flame moves the war out of Basgiath War College to its surrounding border towns and military outposts. The book immediately picks up from where Fourth Wing book ends. We enter the seat of rebellion and gain a deeper understanding of the Gryphons, their fliers, and of Xaden Riorson.

Violet is no longer gullible, believing the lies told by the college, military leaders, and her mother. She earns these truths by not dying in Resson (Fourth Wing,) by los ...more

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