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The Boudoir #2
An Iron Flame Parody: Purple Flame
The Explosively Unnecessary Sequel to the Bestselling Parody Fifth Wing
Vile Soreinbut survived Mudbath Community War College’s flaming death gauntlets, vicious rivalries, and a painfully attractive brooder with the emotional depth of a wet sponge.
Now she’s back—and so is the chaos.
The wards protecting Boudoir are failing, the ancient enemy known only as “The Varmint” is tunneling into reality with its six nipples of doom, and Xadence Marriott has developed… feelings. Gross.
The Purple Flame is a blisteringly inappropriate, laugh-out-loud fantasy satire that skewers everything you loved (and hated) about Iron Flame. With more betrayals, more ridiculous magical lore, and more pastry-fueled seductions, this is the fantasy sequel absolutely need.
From parody mastermind Reid Mockery, author of Detergent and The Horsemaid, comes a follow-up that dares to
What if trauma bonding, dragon mating, and magical war were… kind of funny?
Perfect for fans of fantasy, enemies-to-lovers slow burns, and heroines who weaponize sarcasm and cellulite.
Vile Soreinbut survived Mudbath Community War College’s flaming death gauntlets, vicious rivalries, and a painfully attractive brooder with the emotional depth of a wet sponge.
Now she’s back—and so is the chaos.
The wards protecting Boudoir are failing, the ancient enemy known only as “The Varmint” is tunneling into reality with its six nipples of doom, and Xadence Marriott has developed… feelings. Gross.
The Purple Flame is a blisteringly inappropriate, laugh-out-loud fantasy satire that skewers everything you loved (and hated) about Iron Flame. With more betrayals, more ridiculous magical lore, and more pastry-fueled seductions, this is the fantasy sequel absolutely need.
From parody mastermind Reid Mockery, author of Detergent and The Horsemaid, comes a follow-up that dares to
What if trauma bonding, dragon mating, and magical war were… kind of funny?
Perfect for fans of fantasy, enemies-to-lovers slow burns, and heroines who weaponize sarcasm and cellulite.
157 pages, Paperback
Published May 21, 2025
About the author
Reid Mockery
20 books92 followersReid Mockery is Amazon's number one selling parody author. Consistently funny, he has successfully mocked Fifty Shades, Divergent and now John Green's The Fault In Our Stars. His work has earned a loyal following and he rewards his readers with fast moving parodies, that are short, cheap and guaranteed to brighten your day. Granted, it takes a special gift to be this stupid, but Reid seems to have it by the boatload.
Reid doesn't exactly look like Austin Powers, but he often channels his inner spirit. This image captures what Reid is feeling, so let's leave it at that.
When Reid Mockery makes parodic fun of a book, it is the greatest compliment that book can ever obtain.
He doesn't drink bottled water often. But, when he does, it's from Walmart.
Reid Mockery is so sexy, women buy and read his books by the thousands, just so they can run their fingers down the screen and feel his thick E ink. His words are like poetry, if poetry were entertaining.
He lives an anonymous life in the state of Tennessee searching for the next genre of books to skewer with his wicked sense of humor. Although he has written other books, he is best known for this best-selling parodies that make fun of the best selling books. This ground-breaking work has catapulted Mockery to the top of the Amazon sales charts to which Reid responds, "Yeah, Baby. Yeah!"
Reid doesn't exactly look like Austin Powers, but he often channels his inner spirit. This image captures what Reid is feeling, so let's leave it at that.
When Reid Mockery makes parodic fun of a book, it is the greatest compliment that book can ever obtain.
He doesn't drink bottled water often. But, when he does, it's from Walmart.
Reid Mockery is so sexy, women buy and read his books by the thousands, just so they can run their fingers down the screen and feel his thick E ink. His words are like poetry, if poetry were entertaining.
He lives an anonymous life in the state of Tennessee searching for the next genre of books to skewer with his wicked sense of humor. Although he has written other books, he is best known for this best-selling parodies that make fun of the best selling books. This ground-breaking work has catapulted Mockery to the top of the Amazon sales charts to which Reid responds, "Yeah, Baby. Yeah!"
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August 3, 2025
REVIEW OF PURPLE FLAME by REID MOCKERY
➡️First things first-- This IS a "parody" of Iron Flame, the second book in Rebecca Yarros Empyrean series. You absolutely MUST read Iron Flame before reading this book.
PARODY: "An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. The author noted that Rebecca Yarros is a great writer, and that finding humor in her work was challenging; and if it was purchased by mistake feel free to return it- no harm - no foul.
THAT SAID, If you go into it with these things in mind.... and have a sense of humor... you'll enjoy this book. If you're a sensitive sort-- don't read it.
🕌SETTINGS: Mudbath Community War College, Scrotum Bluff, Areola, Placentia and Urethra- all in "Boudoir". There is a map on first page.
CHARACTERS:
⚜️Vile Soreinbut - Plus Size second year cadet Ass-Wielder & Xadence's "Favorite Person".
⚜️Xadence Marriott - graduating dragon rider/"varmint "fighter, Vile's "favorite person"
⚜️Lieutenant Colonel Buster Soreinbut- (Viles "tranny" cross-dragon brother)
⚜️Pain Assos - Vile's "delicate" childhood friend, memory reader, son of Colonel Assos
⚜️Jack Barnhole - mostly-dead "creatively resurrected" antagonist (think Frankenstein with various animal parts)
⚜️Second year cadets: Manhattan (squad leader), Sailor, Cayla Swift & twin Brianna
⚜️Body- Xadence's handsome but "not very smart" cousin, Caylas's boyfriend
⚜️Mirror Soreinbut- Vile and Buster's sister
⚜️General Soreinbut- Vile, Mirror and Buster's mother
⚜️General Yarros - Supreme Commander of all Boudoir
⚜️Major Woodrow Varnish - new vice commandant
⚜️Helen- Vile's blind, deaf & mute Library friend who helps them search for a book hidden in a secret library chamber (hoping it will explain how to re-ward the Purple Flame stone; that is thought to only respond to virgin goat blood.)
THE DRAGONS:
🐉Torn- Vile's inredibly huge, incredibly sarcastic dragon.. with toxic flatulence
🐉Sfrail- Xadence's smug, elegant sapphire blue dragon (Torn's lifemate)
🐉Adammit- their "lovechild" in a perpertual molting sleep until climactic cliffhanger
NODS TO CURRENT EVENTS/CHARACTERS:
⚜️Viscount Puffy "Diddy" Combs: Won't barter for luminary to re-ward the stone, because he already has enough baby oil. They visit his seaside castle in hopes of obtaining a luminary that he lies about having. They arrive during a "White-Out".. Body shots off the unicorn!
⚜️Chlamydia - is a Gryphon rider/warrior vying for Xadences attention, and is also "Diddy's daughter.
⚜️Ghislaine - Vile's friend from the dungeon, who teaches her a thing or two! As well as discussing Colonel Epstein - charged with trafficking young virgin "goats" for Varish, Colon and Yarros.
THE CHAPTER HEADINGS ARE ALWAYS SILLY & FUN:
Chapter 4: "The person, be it gentleman or lady who has not had the pleasure of a good book must be intolerably stupid."
Chapter 14: Two things are infinate: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe- Professor Einstein, Mudbath Comm. War College
🤔IMPRESSIONS:
We found out in book one that Fifth Wing was designed for the outcasts-- the traitors who stormed the castle on January 6th. Xadence Marriott is in charge of the Fifth Wing. We learn that is because he was a prince, complete with a throne room- before the coup on January 6th. His family castle is now a training outpost for fighting "rat-faced varmints".
❤️I found this a hilarious , laugh-out-loud adventure that mocks the clichés and tropes in the original book, and has questionable signets, romances & actions. It was a delightful change of pace between the intensive and lengthy books, but still left us with the obligatory cliffhanger!! (no spoiler, you'll have to read it).
📖I'll be waiting for Reid's next book: Onyx Snore, parody of Onyx Storm, due to be released Christmas 2025.
((** Note: Does anyone else catch that Executive Director Yarros is male in the start of the book, but is referred to as female towards the end??**))
➡️First things first-- This IS a "parody" of Iron Flame, the second book in Rebecca Yarros Empyrean series. You absolutely MUST read Iron Flame before reading this book.
PARODY: "An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. The author noted that Rebecca Yarros is a great writer, and that finding humor in her work was challenging; and if it was purchased by mistake feel free to return it- no harm - no foul.
THAT SAID, If you go into it with these things in mind.... and have a sense of humor... you'll enjoy this book. If you're a sensitive sort-- don't read it.
🕌SETTINGS: Mudbath Community War College, Scrotum Bluff, Areola, Placentia and Urethra- all in "Boudoir". There is a map on first page.
CHARACTERS:
⚜️Vile Soreinbut - Plus Size second year cadet Ass-Wielder & Xadence's "Favorite Person".
⚜️Xadence Marriott - graduating dragon rider/"varmint "fighter, Vile's "favorite person"
⚜️Lieutenant Colonel Buster Soreinbut- (Viles "tranny" cross-dragon brother)
⚜️Pain Assos - Vile's "delicate" childhood friend, memory reader, son of Colonel Assos
⚜️Jack Barnhole - mostly-dead "creatively resurrected" antagonist (think Frankenstein with various animal parts)
⚜️Second year cadets: Manhattan (squad leader), Sailor, Cayla Swift & twin Brianna
⚜️Body- Xadence's handsome but "not very smart" cousin, Caylas's boyfriend
⚜️Mirror Soreinbut- Vile and Buster's sister
⚜️General Soreinbut- Vile, Mirror and Buster's mother
⚜️General Yarros - Supreme Commander of all Boudoir
⚜️Major Woodrow Varnish - new vice commandant
⚜️Helen- Vile's blind, deaf & mute Library friend who helps them search for a book hidden in a secret library chamber (hoping it will explain how to re-ward the Purple Flame stone; that is thought to only respond to virgin goat blood.)
THE DRAGONS:
🐉Torn- Vile's inredibly huge, incredibly sarcastic dragon.. with toxic flatulence
🐉Sfrail- Xadence's smug, elegant sapphire blue dragon (Torn's lifemate)
🐉Adammit- their "lovechild" in a perpertual molting sleep until climactic cliffhanger
NODS TO CURRENT EVENTS/CHARACTERS:
⚜️Viscount Puffy "Diddy" Combs: Won't barter for luminary to re-ward the stone, because he already has enough baby oil. They visit his seaside castle in hopes of obtaining a luminary that he lies about having. They arrive during a "White-Out".. Body shots off the unicorn!
⚜️Chlamydia - is a Gryphon rider/warrior vying for Xadences attention, and is also "Diddy's daughter.
⚜️Ghislaine - Vile's friend from the dungeon, who teaches her a thing or two! As well as discussing Colonel Epstein - charged with trafficking young virgin "goats" for Varish, Colon and Yarros.
THE CHAPTER HEADINGS ARE ALWAYS SILLY & FUN:
Chapter 4: "The person, be it gentleman or lady who has not had the pleasure of a good book must be intolerably stupid."
Chapter 14: Two things are infinate: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe- Professor Einstein, Mudbath Comm. War College
🤔IMPRESSIONS:
We found out in book one that Fifth Wing was designed for the outcasts-- the traitors who stormed the castle on January 6th. Xadence Marriott is in charge of the Fifth Wing. We learn that is because he was a prince, complete with a throne room- before the coup on January 6th. His family castle is now a training outpost for fighting "rat-faced varmints".
❤️I found this a hilarious , laugh-out-loud adventure that mocks the clichés and tropes in the original book, and has questionable signets, romances & actions. It was a delightful change of pace between the intensive and lengthy books, but still left us with the obligatory cliffhanger!! (no spoiler, you'll have to read it).
📖I'll be waiting for Reid's next book: Onyx Snore, parody of Onyx Storm, due to be released Christmas 2025.
((** Note: Does anyone else catch that Executive Director Yarros is male in the start of the book, but is referred to as female towards the end??**))
December 30, 2025
This book wasn't as funny as the first one but it's a good way to end the year.
December 8, 2025
0.5 I really did not enjoy this
August 11, 2025
ridiculous 🤣
October 5, 2025
Chapter 1
Buster has transitioned into a dragon. Kinda. Hahaha why is body stupid. Oo do not like the blame on kneehims death, too soon. Hahaha the fortress of urethra. As if he has paintings of everyone he’s been with. Haha porno hall. Hahaha cat is chlamydia.
Chapter 2
Love the cross over with Harry Potter. Always the charmer. Hahaha varnishes dragon having a thing with sfrail.
Chapter 3
The names of the graduates are fantastic. Hahaha is speech is even better. Hahaha shave your lady parts. Hahahahaha the letter!
Chapter 4
They got they’re asses kicked
Chapter 5
May she splatter in peace. I’ve missed the bitch slaps. Hahaha slime. Why is slime described like gimli.
Chapter 6
Hahaha wield that power from your ass. I wipe front to back that’s what makes me different hahaha. Colonel Epstein got a prison tattoo. Trust no bitch! Prison vile.
Chapter 7
Jack Frankenstein’s monster. Hahaha my best boob is centered. Ffs diddys in this now with baby oil hahaha. Love that the reader gets brought into their argument.
Chapter 8
Love vile and slimes fight. That chapter was so funny!
Chapter 9
What is with all the singing. Unusual torture tactics. How is it stairs? Haha she’s stealing all the scrolls. Oops guess he tells everyone that.
Chapter 10
Haha rogue mole being a third nipple. Love the chant.
Chapter 11
How do you rise stomach first? Hahaha not the first time in the pokey. Taxidermy mice socks from a wedding, nice. Owe kneehim is there, I like that it’s a funny comfort. Hahaha brilliant way to get the names. Pains mind reading in this situation is better than the og lol. Still happy over varnish’s death.
Chapter 12
Fuck slime. Love eye of the tiger being in here. The goat fucking is mad. Hahaha they’re fighting over him now.
Chapter 13
Hahaha my bowels nearly fall out. Hahaha she’s a battle pixie. Hahahaha he threw up. War muffins love it.
Chapter 14
Depressed farmer or varmint who knows. Hahaha reinsert myself back into the plot.
No pressure babe. Hahaha vomitflame. Killing a dragon for dramatic effect is very jack tbf.
Chapter 15
Hahaha jump starting the ward stone. She’ll have mad ring sting after that. Hahahaha she had to roast them all before she died.
Buster has transitioned into a dragon. Kinda. Hahaha why is body stupid. Oo do not like the blame on kneehims death, too soon. Hahaha the fortress of urethra. As if he has paintings of everyone he’s been with. Haha porno hall. Hahaha cat is chlamydia.
Chapter 2
Love the cross over with Harry Potter. Always the charmer. Hahaha varnishes dragon having a thing with sfrail.
Chapter 3
The names of the graduates are fantastic. Hahaha is speech is even better. Hahaha shave your lady parts. Hahahahaha the letter!
Chapter 4
They got they’re asses kicked
Chapter 5
May she splatter in peace. I’ve missed the bitch slaps. Hahaha slime. Why is slime described like gimli.
Chapter 6
Hahaha wield that power from your ass. I wipe front to back that’s what makes me different hahaha. Colonel Epstein got a prison tattoo. Trust no bitch! Prison vile.
Chapter 7
Jack Frankenstein’s monster. Hahaha my best boob is centered. Ffs diddys in this now with baby oil hahaha. Love that the reader gets brought into their argument.
Chapter 8
Love vile and slimes fight. That chapter was so funny!
Chapter 9
What is with all the singing. Unusual torture tactics. How is it stairs? Haha she’s stealing all the scrolls. Oops guess he tells everyone that.
Chapter 10
Haha rogue mole being a third nipple. Love the chant.
Chapter 11
How do you rise stomach first? Hahaha not the first time in the pokey. Taxidermy mice socks from a wedding, nice. Owe kneehim is there, I like that it’s a funny comfort. Hahaha brilliant way to get the names. Pains mind reading in this situation is better than the og lol. Still happy over varnish’s death.
Chapter 12
Fuck slime. Love eye of the tiger being in here. The goat fucking is mad. Hahaha they’re fighting over him now.
Chapter 13
Hahaha my bowels nearly fall out. Hahaha she’s a battle pixie. Hahahaha he threw up. War muffins love it.
Chapter 14
Depressed farmer or varmint who knows. Hahaha reinsert myself back into the plot.
No pressure babe. Hahaha vomitflame. Killing a dragon for dramatic effect is very jack tbf.
Chapter 15
Hahaha jump starting the ward stone. She’ll have mad ring sting after that. Hahahaha she had to roast them all before she died.
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June 4, 2025
I am such a fan of Reid Mockery; she even sends me advance copies of her books. I couldn't wait to dive into the adventures of Vile and Xadence. Right from the start, Vile discovers that her brother has transitioned into a half-man, half-dragon. It's hilarious! The laughs continued throughout the book, with references to P. Diddy, Epstein, and the comical tortures by Major Varnish. I found myself laughing out loud!
Whether you’ve never heard of The Iron Flame or you’re a die-hard fan craving a whimsical roast, The Purple Flame delivers. Add it to your cart, grab some popcorn and prepare to be entertained. Highly recommend if you enjoy fantasy smashes and side-splitting satire!
I cannot wait to see her next segment, The Onyx Snore.
Whether you’ve never heard of The Iron Flame or you’re a die-hard fan craving a whimsical roast, The Purple Flame delivers. Add it to your cart, grab some popcorn and prepare to be entertained. Highly recommend if you enjoy fantasy smashes and side-splitting satire!
I cannot wait to see her next segment, The Onyx Snore.
October 29, 2025
So this book is 100% a parody and taking that into account as long as you have a sense of humor it will make you laugh. You absolutely must read Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros first or you will be even more confused. The characters and their names took a minute to get used to but I did in fact laugh. I mean the main female can shoot lighting out of her butt.
August 16, 2025
Mind blowing tbh 👏🏻 bring on Onyx Snore asap!
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November 4, 2025literally laughed every page!
December 6, 2025
Not as good as the first parody, but still entertaining. “Ass-assin” 💀
July 28, 2026
Still funny 😅💕
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