Book profile
Iron Flame
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 4.0 · 2576 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Violet Sorrengail returns for a brutal second year at Basgiath War College, where the dragon-rider training is designed to break both body and spirit. Though physically frail, she relies on her iron will and sharp mind to defy a vice commandant who weaponizes her love against her. The narrative leans on academy brutality, a darkening tone of lost humanity, and the weight of a centuries-old secret that Violet alone seems positioned to uncover.
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- Magic Academy: “Basgiath War College” source
- Strong Heroine: “she still has her wits—and a will of iron” source
- Angst: “grueling and maliciously brutal” source
- Dragon Romance: “Dragon riders make their own rules” source
- High Fantasy: “dragon fire” source
- Forbidden Love: “unless she betrays the man she loves” source
- Epic Saga: “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” source
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