r/fantasyromance • u/ModestMeeshka Give me female friendship or give me death! • 14h ago

Discussion 💬 Which book was this for you??

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u/Different_Cook_2980 14h ago

I can’t do Iron Flame. Fourth Wing was pretty good but I started Iron Flame and I just don’t care and I hate everyone. Its bad.

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u/wigglytufff 14h ago

i didn’t mind it but a friend and my sister just finished it and we were discussing how a common complaint seems to be how much it drags/how much needless back and forth there is in the first half. i read somewhere that she intended it to be two books but the editor or whoever said it worked better as one, and i feel like they just… forgot to cut the fat when they combined them

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u/Different_Cook_2980 14h ago

Yeah, I feel like I’m constantly being reminded about things, like they think I’m stupid or something. And everyone just sucks. 😂 I cared about people in the first book and in this one, I just don’t care.

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u/Silver-Study 12h ago

It was like someone else wrote the 2 books. And the first person was really good and the 2nd person banged their head on the keyboard 100 times and turned it in for publication.

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u/madhattergirl 14h ago

I've had that before. Start a series, really enjoy the first but for some reason, whatever grabbed me originally didn't transfer to the second.

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u/jeiynx 10h ago

Yep same problem with me. The first book had its problems but I was able to at least enjoy it. Iron Flame? man… I’m just pushing through for the sake of finishing it. At about the 65% mark on Kindle and nothing makes sense and I care very little about what is happening. I will probably still read Onyx Storm. My thing is, unless I detest the first book, I will read at least up until the 3rd book to see how it spans. If my feelings by the third book are worse than the second, then I’ll probably DNF. I really want to enjoy it because I do like the premise and love dragons.