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Iron Flame - Flammengeküsst by Rebecca Yarros
2.0
This book really disappointed me. I loved Fourth Wing and I was expecting so much from this book but I didn't like the sequel.
There was no character development. The characters had no own personality and I couldn't feel what Violet was feeling (which made me just listen to the audiobook and I was always like: "Ok, someone died but I didn't even know this person's name and Violet is crying rn because this person died."). Xaden was just this "bad boy loveintrest" and everytime he does something Violet is just like: "I don't like what he does but he just looks so hot and that's why I'm in love with him, doesn't matter that I don't know him". And this fucks me up! I also hated this question things they had. I think this book would've been better when Xaden wouldn't have appeared in it. And this ex-trope? Really??
I think Dain had a good character development but he is the only one.
A character I really like is Rhiannon but we don't know anything about her and I want to know more about her as an own character and not just as "Violet's best friend".
This is not enemies to lovers! For me, enemies to lovers has to be slow burn. But it's not enemies to lovers when the "enemies" are ok with each other after 100 pages in the first book of a series with five books. And I know that this is in the first book but she could've saved it with Iron Flame (spoiler: she didn't). She's also using sex scenes to tell the reader that their relationship is working good and I hate it. That's not how sex in books should be used! They could be good if they'd help to understand the characters (e.g. in The Atlas Six). In this book, they feel like she's trying to make it popular on BookTok and to tell the readers that Violet and Xaden are "fine".
I think the story in this book was very boring and I knew the plot the whole time. This was the most basic Romantasy plot you can imagine and I've read this so many times before. I think everyone who read this understands what I mean.
I don't really like Rebecca Yarros's writing style. There are 10‚000 things going on at the same time and she isn't able to lead the reader through the story (which makes everything very confusing and more complicated than it actually is).
I think this could've been a good Romantasy series. This book had good world building and I looked how the story started (even though the plot in Fourth Wing wasn't surprising), but everything she could've done after the first book was destroyed in this one.
There was no character development. The characters had no own personality and I couldn't feel what Violet was feeling (which made me just listen to the audiobook and I was always like: "Ok, someone died but I didn't even know this person's name and Violet is crying rn because this person died."). Xaden was just this "bad boy loveintrest" and everytime he does something Violet is just like: "I don't like what he does but he just looks so hot and that's why I'm in love with him, doesn't matter that I don't know him". And this fucks me up! I also hated this question things they had. I think this book would've been better when Xaden wouldn't have appeared in it. And this ex-trope? Really??
I think Dain had a good character development but he is the only one.
A character I really like is Rhiannon but we don't know anything about her and I want to know more about her as an own character and not just as "Violet's best friend".
This is not enemies to lovers! For me, enemies to lovers has to be slow burn. But it's not enemies to lovers when the "enemies" are ok with each other after 100 pages in the first book of a series with five books. And I know that this is in the first book but she could've saved it with Iron Flame (spoiler: she didn't). She's also using sex scenes to tell the reader that their relationship is working good and I hate it. That's not how sex in books should be used! They could be good if they'd help to understand the characters (e.g. in The Atlas Six). In this book, they feel like she's trying to make it popular on BookTok and to tell the readers that Violet and Xaden are "fine".
I think the story in this book was very boring and I knew the plot the whole time. This was the most basic Romantasy plot you can imagine and I've read this so many times before. I think everyone who read this understands what I mean.
I don't really like Rebecca Yarros's writing style. There are 10‚000 things going on at the same time and she isn't able to lead the reader through the story (which makes everything very confusing and more complicated than it actually is).
I think this could've been a good Romantasy series. This book had good world building and I looked how the story started (even though the plot in Fourth Wing wasn't surprising), but everything she could've done after the first book was destroyed in this one.