I gave this book a 4 star also. Yes, the stuff with Dain was so funny. I’m honestly surprised by how many people were confused by the beginning of the book. I personally did not have that problem. I have a theory about the beginning. SPOILERS I think that Imogen may have erased Violet’s memory at the beginning after the prologue. That’s probably why we jump to two weeks later in chapter 1. What happened in those two weeks? I bet in book 4 we will get more Imogen chapters. I just hope Rebecca doesn’t fumble the series.
You hit the nail on the head! 💯 agree with you. I rated the first two books five-star and this one a four-star. I loved it, but I didn't love it, if that makes any sense, lol. I think the main reason was I felt, as you mentioned, it was way too much romance vs. fantasy with a side of romance and then that ending! Ugh, that ending! 😫 anywho, I loved your review and your channel. It's my favorite to watch!! ❤
I thought I heard that this was supposed to be a trilogy but changed to 5 books and I am not sure if that was the publisher asking her to do that to make more money off the series or Rebecca decided she needed more time to tell the full story and wanted to avoid big chonky books like Sarah J Maas, Jennifer Armentrout, and Cassandra Clair. I just hate to have to wait until what...2027 for this series to be complete? Also, she released a book inbetween this series which was annoying if she wrote it when she should be been working on this series or if that other book was already written and was put on pause to get the fantasy book out. Which now that I think about it may have been the case? Honestly, I need to read this book again because I rushed to read it so I didn't end up seeing a spoiler online. Luckily I was able to dodge any before I read it but I didn't get to appreciate the story like I normally would reading a book. So I might skim through it and stop at certain chapters to get more info that I might have missed in the first round. My Goodreads rating of the first book was 5 stars and 4 stars for Iron Flame and this one. I rated them 4.75, 4.5 and 4.5 on StoryGraph. What was the signifigance of adding Broccoli to the story? That was out of left field and didn't add anything to the storyline that I noticed. Am I wrong? Did I miss something? Someone please let me know if I am.
So my friend and I think Broccoli was added as a thing to bring Mira and the griffin rider together. We think they're going to be a romantic thing in the next book and take care of Broccoli together. But it definitely was a bit odd lol
**SPOILERS** I just finished this one yesterday - the fact that it took almost 2 weeks tells me how much I struggled. I was actually one of the people who loved Iron Flame as well. The only reason I finished and rated it so high was because of how much I already loved the world/characters and the first two books. Do you have any theories about Violet’s observation that Brennan and Dain didn’t have a mark after Sloane used her signet so he could heal Mira? (“There’s no mark at the back of his neck like he carries on his palm. There hadn’t been one on Dain’s wrist”) I agree about Bodhi - I think the whole point of marrying Violet was so she would be able to lead without Xaden. Xaden making the comment that his new brother had seen how he had been struggling this whole time really limits who it could be. I’m worried about involving the gods as well. I’m a little nervous it’ll go off the rails like CC3. I'm assuming her Grandmother will play a part in some of the answers. I felt Xaden being venin lessened the interaction with his mother. I would’ve liked to see how the scene played out if he wasn’t fighting the venin influence.
SPOILERS So my friend and I were talking about those marks and we are kind of thinking that Naolin is now a venin, we just aren't sure what rank. We also think that most of the venin with signets may have originally been dragon riders and they kept their manifested signets when they turned venin. So we're kind of toying with the idea of Naolin as a venin and that's why Tairn doesn't want to talk about him at all and it would explain the handprints on Brennan (referencing the handprints on Violet's headboard when Xaden channeled). I honestly just wish we had sorted out Xaden's venin-ness in this book because I just don't want to deal with it being even worse in the next one. My friend and I were curious if she's going to do a split POV in the next book with Xaden/Violet doing there own things. I definitely agree the grandmother is going to come into play in the next book.
I thought I forgot everything when reading the first 100 pages cause it didn’t made any sense. I loved the first 2 books and I hated this one. I didn’t like the storyline, the romance stuff, it could have done without the smut. Only thing I liked were the islands, the expansion of the world. I read the Dutch translation and I think it lacked editing and the translation wasn’t very good. I regret not picking the English books.
So that was the only purpose, but they also melted something else off the wardstone while searching for the correct rune to melt for the riders getting powers back. So the first rune they melted off, didn't let the riders wield and Violet made an offhand comment about hoping it wasn't anything serious that they needed. So that's why it seems like it might be something weird in later books.
I gave this book a 4 star also. Yes, the stuff with Dain was so funny. I’m honestly surprised by how many people were confused by the beginning of the book. I personally did not have that problem. I have a theory about the beginning.
SPOILERS
I think that Imogen may have erased Violet’s memory at the beginning after the prologue. That’s probably why we jump to two weeks later in chapter 1. What happened in those two weeks? I bet in book 4 we will get more Imogen chapters. I just hope Rebecca doesn’t fumble the series.
You hit the nail on the head! 💯 agree with you. I rated the first two books five-star and this one a four-star. I loved it, but I didn't love it, if that makes any sense, lol. I think the main reason was I felt, as you mentioned, it was way too much romance vs. fantasy with a side of romance and then that ending! Ugh, that ending! 😫 anywho, I loved your review and your channel. It's my favorite to watch!! ❤
I thought I heard that this was supposed to be a trilogy but changed to 5 books and I am not sure if that was the publisher asking her to do that to make more money off the series or Rebecca decided she needed more time to tell the full story and wanted to avoid big chonky books like Sarah J Maas, Jennifer Armentrout, and Cassandra Clair. I just hate to have to wait until what...2027 for this series to be complete? Also, she released a book inbetween this series which was annoying if she wrote it when she should be been working on this series or if that other book was already written and was put on pause to get the fantasy book out. Which now that I think about it may have been the case? Honestly, I need to read this book again because I rushed to read it so I didn't end up seeing a spoiler online. Luckily I was able to dodge any before I read it but I didn't get to appreciate the story like I normally would reading a book. So I might skim through it and stop at certain chapters to get more info that I might have missed in the first round. My Goodreads rating of the first book was 5 stars and 4 stars for Iron Flame and this one. I rated them 4.75, 4.5 and 4.5 on StoryGraph. What was the signifigance of adding Broccoli to the story? That was out of left field and didn't add anything to the storyline that I noticed. Am I wrong? Did I miss something? Someone please let me know if I am.
So my friend and I think Broccoli was added as a thing to bring Mira and the griffin rider together. We think they're going to be a romantic thing in the next book and take care of Broccoli together. But it definitely was a bit odd lol
**SPOILERS**
I just finished this one yesterday - the fact that it took almost 2 weeks tells me how much I struggled. I was actually one of the people who loved Iron Flame as well.
The only reason I finished and rated it so high was because of how much I already loved the world/characters and the first two books.
Do you have any theories about Violet’s observation that Brennan and Dain didn’t have a mark after Sloane used her signet so he could heal Mira? (“There’s no mark at the back of his neck like he carries on his palm. There hadn’t been one on Dain’s wrist”)
I agree about Bodhi - I think the whole point of marrying Violet was so she would be able to lead without Xaden. Xaden making the comment that his new brother had seen how he had been struggling this whole time really limits who it could be.
I’m worried about involving the gods as well. I’m a little nervous it’ll go off the rails like CC3. I'm assuming her Grandmother will play a part in some of the answers.
I felt Xaden being venin lessened the interaction with his mother. I would’ve liked to see how the scene played out if he wasn’t fighting the venin influence.
SPOILERS
So my friend and I were talking about those marks and we are kind of thinking that Naolin is now a venin, we just aren't sure what rank. We also think that most of the venin with signets may have originally been dragon riders and they kept their manifested signets when they turned venin. So we're kind of toying with the idea of Naolin as a venin and that's why Tairn doesn't want to talk about him at all and it would explain the handprints on Brennan (referencing the handprints on Violet's headboard when Xaden channeled).
I honestly just wish we had sorted out Xaden's venin-ness in this book because I just don't want to deal with it being even worse in the next one.
My friend and I were curious if she's going to do a split POV in the next book with Xaden/Violet doing there own things.
I definitely agree the grandmother is going to come into play in the next book.
I thought I forgot everything when reading the first 100 pages cause it didn’t made any sense. I loved the first 2 books and I hated this one. I didn’t like the storyline, the romance stuff, it could have done without the smut. Only thing I liked were the islands, the expansion of the world. I read the Dutch translation and I think it lacked editing and the translation wasn’t very good. I regret not picking the English books.
SPOILER AHEAD. Didn't they "melt the wardstone" so riders could wield magic? I thought that was the only purpose
So that was the only purpose, but they also melted something else off the wardstone while searching for the correct rune to melt for the riders getting powers back.
So the first rune they melted off, didn't let the riders wield and Violet made an offhand comment about hoping it wasn't anything serious that they needed. So that's why it seems like it might be something weird in later books.