Imogen Martin > Recent Status Updates

Only 100 pages to go. And things are hotting up.
We've gone back to that whole "Trust / not trust" thing. I'm still bothered that Violet thinks love means the other person has to share EVERYTHING.
Love spending time in Xaden's company though. Makes up for all Violet's whining.

Picked this up again after finishing Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.
Iron Flame really should have been two books. Feel like I've been reading it a life time.
But, AT LAST!, a character has pointed out how daft Navarre is to let cadets die; "It's you who are the weird ones, killing cadets on your conscription day." (pg506) Never a truer word...

Picked this up again, now I've finished a different book. It's such a long book, feels like it should have been two books any way!

Loving the depth of writing. Fully invested in Lila and Elena. However, the book maybe sags under the weight of being judged the best book of the 21st century so far.

Putting this to one side, having reached the end of Part 1, because I'm moving on to my book club read: My Brilliant Friend (my proposal, hoping it's good).

I still think there is a problem with Violet's motivation. She's now told her friends what's happening, expected them to hate her because she kept secrets, and they go "yeah, of course people have secrets."

Feels like there's a lot of padding going on.

Putting this to one side, having reached the end of Part 1, because I'm moving on to my book club read: My Brilliant Friend (my proposal, hoping it's good).

I still think there is a problem with Violet's motivation. She's now told her friends what's happening, expected them to hate her because she kept secrets, and they go "yeah, of course people have secrets."

Feels like there's a lot of padding going on.

First reaction: Yarros is struggling to find a convincing conflict to keep Violet and Xaden apart. I'm finding the "you have to tell me ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING about you and everything else; otherwise we're done" attitude from Violet pretty weak as a motivation. It's immature controlling behaviour. Maybe that's what Yarros is getting at though.
It also means Xaden's devotion feels cheesy.

OMG, loving this!