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Iron Flame: DISCOVER THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT! (The Empyrean Book 2) Kindle Edition

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The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing!



Don't miss out on the series that the world can't stop talking about:

'An absolute romantasy sensation . . . Yarros is the true inheritor of Harry Potter and inspires Hunger Games levels of devotion' - Guardian

'Fear not, levels of fighting, rebelliousness and all-round sexiness are still sky-high' - Daily Mail

'Iron Flame is on course to set the world alight' - Glamour

'Yarros had me hooked from the first chapter' - Mail on Sunday
__________________________________________

She survived her first year at Basgiath War College . . . but the danger is only beginning.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves.

Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her wits, and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.

But a determination to survive won't be enough this year.

Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

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Reviews for Fourth Wing



'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' THE SUN

'We weren't expecting to become obsessed with Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing, but we very much are - and we're not alone . . .' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

'I couldn't put it down!' MILLIE BOBBY BROWN

'This book contains an addictive, drug like essence that will make you relinquish all responsibility until the very last word. Do not say I didn't warn you' GLAMOUR

'Throw in an enemies-to-lovers plotline, some life-threatening trials and the threat of war in the outside world, and you've got yourself a deliciously gripping dish, which I downed in one sitting' STYLIST

'2024 is the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese calendar. Dive into a fantasy narrative featuring these mythical, winged creatures.' POP SUGAR


OTHER BOOKS IN THE EMPYREAN SERIES
- FOURTH WING
- IRON FLAME


*Rebecca Yarros's Iron Flame was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller in hardback in the second week of November 2023

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The bestselling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing
She survived her first year at Basgiath War College for Dragon Riders...
Fourth Wing, Iron Flame and Onyx Storm
But the real danger is just beginning.
Fourth Wing paperback Iron Flame hardback Onyx Storm hardback - Cover to be revealed
Fourth Wing Iron Flame Onyx Storm
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'Iron Flame is on course to set the world alight' ― Glamour

Violet (aka Violence) Sorrengail is still flying high on her mighty - and mightily sarcastic - dragon... levels of fighting, rebelliousness and all-round sexiness are still sky-high ― Daily Mail

An absolute romantasy sensation. Iron Flame, the second book in the Empyrean Series set in the centuries-oldBasgiath War College, landed in November, and a lot of people are very excited about it. Yarros is the true inheritor of Harry Potter and inspires Hunger Games levels of devotion, with extra dragons and sex. This is the only book in the last few years that has genuinely justified bookshop midnight openings, so you should probably get up to date now ― Guardian

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THE THRILLING SEQUEL TO THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NUMBER ONE GLOBAL PHENOMENON, FOURTH WING!

The deadly second year at Basgiath awaits. Don't miss out on the series that the world can't stop talking about:

'This book contains an addictive, drug like essence that will make you relinquish all responsibility until the very last word. Do not say I didn't warn you' - Glamour

'I didn't sleep, I didn't eat, and when I finished, I had the overwhelming urge to just start it all over again' - Reader Review

'You know when you finish a book, and it leaves an ache in your chest because it was so good, and now it's over? That's exactly how I feel after finishing Fourth Wing' - Reader Review

__________________________________________

She survived her first year at Basgiath War College . . . but the danger is only beginning.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves.

Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her wits, and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.

But a determination to survive won't be enough this year.

Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Piatkus (7 Nov. 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Rebecca is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, Sunday Times, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over fifteen novels, including FOURTH WING, and is always ready to bring on the emotions. She's also the recipient of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence in New Adult for Eyes Turned Skyward from her Flight and Glory series.

She loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for twenty-one years. She’s the mother of six children and lives in Colorado with her family, their stubborn English bulldog, feisty chinchillas, and Maine Coon cat who rules them all. Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October.

Visit her website at www.RebeccaYarros.com for more!

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Sherrie wright
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2024
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Let me just say, if you have any plans or life, this book is not for you. I stayed up almost night and day 5 days straight because fourth wing and iron flame had me gagging for more!! I've read many books in my life and thought my favourite book of all time would never change, until now! There are no filler chapters or bits where you get board. You simply lose track of time and reality and enter into their world. This is the best series I have ever read and the only review I have ever left... Wow. Rebecca Yarros, your mind is amazing. Book 3 needs to hurry up!! I'm as desperate as Violet is for Xaden!!!
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Amanda Coles
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible high fantasy romance with major daddy vibes!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2024
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Iron Flame is a high fantasy, two-part sequel to the amazing Fourth Wing picking up where we left off in a secret location, hiding in plain sight due to the marked ones relic’s from the dragons and hiding them from Melggren’s sight. The rebellion thought to be crushed except it’s developed so much more behind the scenes, with the help from the very undead Colonel who had my crying with laughter at a certain reunion unable to imagine it any other way.

Pay very close attention to the chater logs because this information seems random and like it doesn’t matter until further through the book it does! I loved all the chapter logs that were recovered correspondence between Vi and Xaden, OMG Xaden Riorson writing Violet letters literally made me swoon! Although their relationship seems to have done a 180 as Xaden accepts his feelings for Violet, she is extremely wary and fixated on his lies. The deepest and strongest relationships are built on a foundation of unbreakable trust but there’s so much preventing that, Xaden’s just a naturally secretive guy, the lives of all the marked children and everyone in Aretia, and lets not forgetting backstabbing snoopy Dain Aetos!

Vi’s relationships with other characters take a massive hit, unable to be honest with her friends she draws away to protect them, hurt and betrayed by her best friend since childhood and then not having the strongest of bonds with the marked ones she struggles with having no one to confide in. Thankfully, Tairn has learned his lesson and is a constant support by her side, and so is Andarna .... eventually .... once she’s emerged from the Dreamless Sleep.

A new enemy presents itself as Vi and Xaden make a major enemy of Colonel Aetos, Dain’s father when he is sacked from his position and replaced by the devil himself, Major Varrish, I’m still not 100% sure what his signet is but he has got it in for our girl and the marked ones who after calling leaderships bluff must fight of assassination attempts. Varrish is evil, pure and simple and I do think there are more questions needing answering about him and his one eyed dragon Solas. Tarin as always being the incredible, powerful protector at Vi’s side schooled him in the best way possible and I loved that entire scene!

More secrets are revealed, information is gathered, the dead are becoming the undead and what was once believed, the very foundations, history and beliefs of Vi’s world leave her shaken to her core, scrambling to find her centre and confidence and return to the formidable, woman she was. Danger lurks around every corner making this a thrilling read that I fully enjoyed and excited for book 3! After I have re-read this book with a fine tooth comb for all the juicy details that may be important further down the line.
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Rachel
4.0 out of 5 stars It was ok - just a bit underwhelming
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2023
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If you don’t want to read my whole review (aka ramblings) then my summary is this: I enjoyed Iron Flame and I will absolutely be reading the next installment, but this is far from a perfect book and it’s really suffered from the rush to publish. My review features a lot of criticism (Pacing, Plot, Character development..) but despite its many flaws I did have fun reading Irong Flame!

Pacing
Iron Flame’s pacing felt really unpredictably to me and I’ve seen some reviewers call it ‘frantic’ which absolutely hits the nail on the head. The pacing was thrown off by 2 big issues; 1. This felt like 2 books smushed together rather than cohesive tail (this is is a criticism I come back to repeatedly in this review) and 2. Iron Flame was trying so hard to be ‘action packed’, it bombarded us with pretty pointless and boring mini adventures. There was so much thrown into this book from pointless side quests, to a million new characters, to huge chunks of info dumping - there was just too much in the mix for there to be any structured pacing going on here.

Plot
There are some big plot holes forming here and that’s such a shame. Half of the plot here wasn’t important, or interesting, or relevant and was thrown in for some additional action or drama. The actual plot (once you dig through the nonsense) was fine but really this is 2 books smushed together and I think they could have been so much stronger alone.

Characters
This brings me onto characters, who have consistently been a stand out in this series so far. I love the characters we’ve met so far but because there was so much action (most of it pointless might I add) there was so little room left for character development which was a real shame. I feel like Violet’s development in Fourth Wing was one of the major draws to the book and so for there to be so little character development here was such a shame. I really, really loved Violet in Fourth Wing. She was flawed and she knew it but she overcame so much by being clever and determined. Yet this installment saw her being whiny and insecure and just plain irrational at times. Particularly in the second half I feel like i really lost Violet

Aaric - umm why was this skipped over so much? I want him to have SO MUCH MORE air time! The connection between Tairn and Andarna was still really sweet but I struggled with all the changes Andarana seemed to go through. While I absolutely understand she’s growing up I feel like we just got a caricature of a teengager rather than Andarna as a teenager. I loved the family dynamics we got to see developed here. I adored seeing Mira’s and Brennan���s reunion! It was such a classic Mira reaction to punch him in the face too - it was the perfect blend of an emotional scene with a touch of humour. General Sorrengtail had an interesting arc here though and I loved what Yarros did here. And I think that was ultimately my issue here. I found everyone else more interesting then Violent and Xaden this time around

(SPOILER) those scenes with Liam when Violet is being tortured? Just such an emotional and clever idea that worked so incredibly well!

Those are my biggest complaints really but I do have some other thoughts too!

Romance
I was so excited to see what would happen with Violet and Xaden and I was seriously underwhelmed here.Their lack of communication was annoying and honestly I think this could have been handled so much better by Yarros. It just felt like such a trope when so much conflict could have been avoided if they had just communicated.They were both being stupid the whole ‘you didn’t tell me’, ‘you didn’t ask’ back and forth was nonsense. And I really don’t feel like it fitted either of their personalities - they’re meant to be smarter than that. I know that plot wise they weren’t able to spend as much time together but I really felt like their romance struggled for this distance and it all just felt so stagnant and boring. There was none of that burning heat from Fourth Wing here. (I did like the letter concept but we should have gotten more of that!)

I also hated the whole ‘other woman’ trope that got thrown in here. Yarros is better than that and I don’t feel like it added anything beneficial or interesting to the story. Honestly it was frustrating and it felt like it was added for the sake of adding some additional drama which, I mean, isn’t needed? They’re involved in a revolution in the middle of the war with a whole heaping ton of family drama - there’s enough conflict going on.

World Building
I enjoyed that there was some additional and much needed world building here but I feel like a lot of what we learnt here just raises so many more questions for me and some of it I’m really struggling to fit in with Fourth Wing. I get the impression that a lot of the wider details of the world weren’t known by Yarros until now and so she’s slotted in these additional elements. Fourth Wing interwove world development really well but here there was just too much info dumping.

Length
I don’t mind a long read. I actually quite like a longer book as it gives you something to really get your teeth into BUT I did find my attention waning quite a bit during Iron Flame which makes me wonder whether this should have been divided up. Iron Flame is split into 2 books as you read and I really do wonder whether it would have been best ending it there

Suspense
I’m not sure if it’s the frantic pacing, the none stop action, the split plot, or the lack of character development or what but I just didn’t feel any suspense here (apart from towards the very end). I think part of the magic of Fourth Wing was the brutal and deadly school setting, combined with the competition element which added such a familiar and engaging structure. Without those 2 things Irong Flame didn’t pack as big of a punch for me. I felt pretty confident I knew who was going to die and how things were going to pan out so apart from that very final twist I really wasn’t surprised by anything here - which is such a contrast to Fourth Wing that had some great twists!

Overall
Iron Flame was a fun read. I enjoyed it and I will definitely be reading the next installment (In fact I’ll probably preorder it as soon as it becomes available!) With all that being said though, this isn’t a book I’m going to be raving about and recommending to everyone I meet. I wish the book had been separated as I think if the first half had been more developed I would have probably given this another 5 stars. Likewise I think the second half could have been more developed if it had been a separate book too. There was too much filler action scenes which meant the plot and pacing was all over the place.

I’m hoping that Iron Flame was rushed out because of all the hype from Fourth Wing but that the next installment will be more polished (fingers crossed!)

Author
I know there’s a lot of controversy going on at the moment around Rebecca Yarros and it didn’t feel right to just ignore that in this review. However, I made the decision a long time ago to separate the art and this artist so this review has purely focused on the art (which isn’t to say I haven’t commented on Yarros’ opinions elsewhere but I just don’t feel like this is the place for it)
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Britta L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely incredible
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2024
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One of the top 5 books I’ve ever read and I’ve read a LOT. It’s so well written that it feels now impossible to believe that this world doesn’t exist somewhere. When I grow up I want to be a rider and I’m now obsessed with dragons.
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Warringtonzoo
5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly gripping
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2024
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Read both books one after the other, couldn’t put them down. Love the characters, the landscape they live in and a story line that captures your imagination from the very start…. Can’t wait for number 3… talk about a cliff hanger finish in book two!
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Cliente Kindle
5.0 out of 5 stars Só leiam. Meu Deus. Que livro.
Reviewed in Brazil on 5 June 2024
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Eu tô destruída. Ansiosa. Chorei. Ri. E agora preciso aguardar ansiosamente, no mínimo, 6 meses até a continuação da história.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
Reviewed in Mexico on 24 May 2024
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Me encanta. En algunas partes es incluso más emocionante que la primera parte. Y la edición es muy bonita.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Story - Amazon Damaged My Book.
Reviewed in Canada on 22 April 2024
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It's minor damage, but I ordered a new, unused copy. From the damage on the spine, book jacket, etc., it looked more like it's been used before. There was no protective packaging, either. Not impressed as my copy of Fourth Wing came in pristine condition, with protective packaging. Not sure where to turn that issue in, if that's a here issue or to take it up with Amazon another route.

As far as sequels go, I really enjoyed this one. It's still very much Fourth Wing and the Fourth Wing World, but it's it own beast entirely. I think the first one is still a bit better, but as far as the book itself goes - was very enjoyable. I still laughed, cried, went through the paces. I can't wait for Black Onyx to come out. A bit terrified, as how the story leaves off.

I also wouldn't consider this book, or the whole series, as "spicy." I kind of have to laugh, because it's really tame. The scenes are good, don't get me wrong. I feel like there could be more without taking away from the story. Perhaps some descriptive language. But the way people rave about it makes it seem like they're doing the horizontal tango every chapter. They do not. Maybe that says something about me and the filthy things I've read prior, but uh...I wouldn't even consider this super smutty.

Honestly, I really like the balance of story, romance, action and adventure. That's some elements of a perfect book for me.

I really like and recommend this series.
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Melissa Deible
5.0 out of 5 stars Iron Wing: A Riveting Flight Through Fantasy
Reviewed in the United States on 17 February 2024
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Rebecca Yarros masterfully crafts a narrative that is as enthralling as it is vivid. With an exceptional talent for describing characters and scenes, the author brings the fantastical world within the pages to life with striking detail and accuracy. Each description is meticulously crafted, painting a picture so clear it feels as though you're standing right in the midst of the action, witnessing the events unfold before your very eyes.

The plot of "Iron Wing" is a labyrinth of twists and turns. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, eagerly turning pages as you are drawn deeper into the intricately woven narrative. The story’s ability to engage and surprise is its strongest suit, making it impossible to put the book down. Just when you think you have figured it out, the story veers into uncharted territory, demonstrating the author's skill in storytelling.

Adding to the allure of "Iron Wing" are the spicy scenes interspersed throughout the book. These moments are penned with a finesse that makes them utterly captivating, ensuring that they are sure to make the reader melt. The chemistry between characters is palpable, written in a way that is both tasteful and electrifying. These scenes add a layer of intensity to the narrative, making the emotional highs and lows of the characters even more profound.

In conclusion, "Iron Wing" is a masterpiece of fantasy literature that offers everything a reader could wish for: a vividly realized world, a gripping plot full of surprises, and moments of intense emotion that are beautifully depicted. The author's ability to describe the characters and scenes with such detail and accuracy, coupled with a storyline that captivates from the first page to the last, and the perfectly placed spicy scenes, makes this book an unforgettable read. Whether you're a fan of fantasy or just looking for your next great read, "Iron Wing" is sure to satisfy.
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Shakti
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome 😎
Reviewed in India on 21 May 2024
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I haven't read the book yet but the quality of the hardcover book is just awesome 😎 oh and the sprayed edges are just mind-blowing. And the book itself is very good, at least that's what I have heard. And I will be back with my review soon...
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