Iron Flower (Legend of the Iron Flower Book Two) is a sword and sorcery fantasy novel. It’s heroine is a young woman, Rose, whose physique rivals the greatest Amazon warrior you can imagine. The narrative carries her from one battle to another in a story that’s light on plot and heavy on battles.
If you’re in to that sort of thing, you’ll enjoy the book. For myself, I couldn’t finish it because there’s no real “quest” driving the plot forward and the prose is stilted at best. I wanted to get caught up in what Rose wanted to do, but there wasn’t enough in common between us for me to empathize with her, to make her quest mine.
Usually epic sagas have a great quest or some compelling need driving the protagonist forward, such as destroying the ring in Lord of the Rings. I kept looking for that in this book, but the closest thing I found came was her desire to rid the realm of something labeled a “Clarity."
In the end, I wanted to like the book. There is a great story here, but it suffers from too many grammar and style errors and a plot that took way too long to develop to hold my interest.
From a content point of view, it contains a lot of sword dueling violence, but it's mild for the genre. The sex content, of what I read, was clean. For that reason, I wanted to like the book. It had some vulgar language, but nothing that would give it worse than a PG rating if it were a movie.
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