Iron Flame
Violet Sorrengail returns to Basgiath War College for her second year of dragon-rider training knowing that half of what she was taught in year one was a lie and that the people running the school now consider her a traitor. Rebecca Yarros trades the romance-forward opening of Fourth Wing for a grimmer survey of the war, the venin, and the political faction determined to break Violet and her bonded dragons. The book deepens the bond with Xaden, broadens the cast, and ends on a cliffhanger aimed squarely at the next installment.
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The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Second year at Basgiath War College is harder, the new vice commandant is determined to break Violet, and the empire's official version of history is starting to come apart. Second in the Empyrean series.
Yes. Iron Flame is the second book in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series. It assumes you have read Fourth Wing and continues directly from its events.
Yes. Iron Flame contains multiple explicit on-page romance scenes, comparable to or slightly more explicit than Fourth Wing. Most readers rate it 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale.
Iron Flame was written by Rebecca Yarros, published in 2023 by dtv.
Iron Flame is 640 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Iron Flame takes most readers 10 to 14 hours to finish.
Iron Flame is a standalone novel by Rebecca Yarros, not part of a series.
Iron Flame is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.