Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

When I returned from my holiday in Norway, I finally took the time to finish the last few chapters of the second Fourth Wing book. I partly listened to it on audiobook and partly read it on my Kobo reader. I started it way before my holiday but didn’t really want to pick it up to read the rest of it.

We continue where the first book ends. In the first book, we follow Violet in her first year, and this book starts with her second year. At first, it was really intriguing to me to have a main character with an illness that makes her physically weaker, but as the series goes on, we get more of the same information, and there isn’t really a story element to it.

“Good idea. I could use a snack.” Andarna’s tone is indecently excited. “We do not eat our allies,” Tairn lectures. “You never let me have any fun.”

Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

After liking the ending of the first book, I would have thought I would like this book. The first book felt very slow, and I put it down to the world-building, but this book felt even more dull. I liked only a few chapters of this book, and more than ones, I thought of not even finishing it at all.

Sadly, the characters and the plot are very flat. There isn’t any character development, and the plot is plodding. A few characters die, but because there wasn’t really any character development, I didn’t care they died. They didn’t change much of the story.

“I chose you not as my next, but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”

Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

I am unsure if I will ever read the next book in the series. Maybe if the reviews are really good, but other than that, there isn’t much that can convince me to pick it up.

This one will only get a 2-star review from me.