balrog@bookwyrm.eble.name reviewed The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest (The Black Witch Chronicles, #2)
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3 stars
Quality of the first volume was not upheld, character actions and moods are a bit over the top.
Hardcover, 597 pages
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2018 by Harlequin Teen.
Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a military dragon. The last thing they expected was to be thrust into a realm-wide underground resistance against Gardnerian conquest.
While the Resistance fights the harsh rulings of the Mage Council, Gardnerian soldiers descend upon the University…led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of the nearby military base. Though Elloren tries to keep him at arm’s length, Lukas is determined to tie himself to her, convinced that she’s the heir to the power of the Black Witch, a legacy that will decide the future of Erthia. As his magic calls to her, Elloren finds it more and more difficult to believe she’s truly powerless, as her uncle always claimed.
Quality of the first volume was not upheld, character actions and moods are a bit over the top.