Ep 48: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 1-9 | Review & Discussion Part 1

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12/04/24 • 58 min

Listen in as we discuss chapters 1 through 9 of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Oh my god I'm dumb, Brennan and Naolin we're a couple. If Naolin is alive, Brennan doesn't think so. Chapter 1: • Has breakfast with her brother, new name, can't reach andarna and her "door" is no longer gold. • Eavesdropping an assembly meeting, she's turned on watching xaden, but remembers she can't trust him. • They need a forge, short a luminary, want vicount tecarus's, Xaden won't consider the current offer. ------ • Vi thinks xaden is the most powerful, Tarin says for now. • Xaden vouches for violet, violet stands up for herself to the council, idk who Felix is but her stood up for her being used by Dain. • I would be in paralysis if I found out my brother was actually alive. Chapter 2: • Original hatching grounds near Riorson house. • Brennan and Violet talk about how he's alive, and she wonders to herself if Naolin is more than just Tarin's previous rider to Brennan. • Their dragons are in the valley near by, xaden guarding andarna. • Venin coming from the baron's, draining the lands of magic, going city to city. • This is the moment she reflects on the wyvern details in the fables, they are made by venin. • Venin not attacking because they think they are victims, attacking for more power from the ground. • The alloy used to kill venin is the same used to extend their wards. Like wifi extension. • Scribes withholding information. • Talk of another ward stone, others think the luminary for melting alloy for weapons is better than building wards. ------- • Why does sgaeyl not like Brennan, ever?? • Find out Andarna grew and no longer golden. • Brennan doesn't think their mom is too be trusted, but others point out mom wasn't there when orders were given for the games. • Andarna wakes, she's crabby, is she bitter?, "can you carry her", tarin deeply offended lol Chapter 3: • Dragons only first bonded to pretext their hatchlings, sneak into basgiath, xaden on thin ice, talk about her shielding Dain. • Violet grabs liam's letters, asks Rhiannon to hide them. • Talk about how can xaden lie to the ones he cares about, says he has never lied to her and she needs to master the art of selective truths for their safety. • Xaden has known Brennan since his death, he answered truthfully when she asked. • XADEN YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF, • Little did you know xaden....Jesinia documented what you said • she points out how he would tell her anything she wants to know and anything you don't, he said only in regards to him 😡. • Says he will always have secrets but wants her to ask anything about him, violet points out how everyone and everything around her is a lie. • She threatens to un- fall in love with him if she doesn't get full and total honesty. I agree with both of them :( • Names read off the death roll.

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Ep 47: 'Fourth Wing' Chapters 36-39 | Final Review Part 2

Listen in as we discuss chapters 36 through 39 of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Chapter 39: • Sgaeyl chose him bc of his scars and the grandson of her 2nd rider. • Watches her chest to make sure she's breathing. • Reflects on the mistakes he's made, realizes how much he actually loves her. • Violet woke up happy, talks about how he changed her clothes. • "You're not going to lose me", he kisses her back, thirsts for WHILE HE KNOWS HE'S ABOUT TO BE IN HOT WATER AGAIN! • Tells her andarna is fine but not that she is huge. • They're in Aretia, Violet realizes the scribes lied. • "I smile, this brilliant fucking woman is mine, or was mine, will be mine if I have anything to say about it.....which I probably don't " 😆 • "You can know what ever you want, just ask" 😡 • Gives her liam's carving of andarna. • Bodhi points out that syrena and her sister are alive "if that's what xaden was asking" • Xaden thirsty as hell seeing her hair. 🤣 • Says he's never lied to her. • "I will tell you anything you want to know and everything you don't and spend every day of my life earning your trust", Brennan revealed. Who is xaden if he was in our world? The guy who always stands up for you, to his mom, to his friends, would to your own mom. The guy who goes out of his way for the young or elderly. The guy who quits hanging out with guy friends because he just wants to hang out with you so you have to make him spend time with his friends. The guy who will punch someone in the face who touched you and made you feel like a whore you while you're out with friends. Chapter 9 Xaden POV: • Sparing between xaden and violet. • Wait a minute xaden, I thought you loved her at first sight, why are you considering the consequences of killing her??? • Turned on by how brilliant she is. • Calls her Violence, thinks about how she needs better fitting daggers. • This chapter seems more like when he fell for her. • Violet catches him off guard, sgaeyl doesn't like how violet brings his guard down. • Sexual position and tension 😆 completely professional to outsiders. • Yup this is definitely when he falls for her. • Dain startled him and he's reminded others can see them. • Garrick makes fun of him. Chapter 16 Xaden POV: • Post threshing when Dain is talking to Violet. • Xaden notices the grip Dain has on her. • Sgaeyl is gentle with Xaden each time, unexpected. • Xaden tries masking and over compensates by being aggressive/emotional. • Brings up the moment of the field as "Maybe I'll kill her or maybe i won't, to protect her at all costs". • Calls out Dain that he wouldn't protect violet. • Sgaeyl calls out Xaden that of not for Tarin, Dain would be right. • They talk about them being tied together and risks with that. • Xaden wants to kiss her in between their serious talk. • Love sgaeyl's smooth sarcasm. • If tarin is 100 and he's 50yrs older than sgaeyl and she bonded his grandpa, the. She was pretty young when she first bond right? • They are all bonded together, assigns Liam to protect her. • Garrick makes fun of his crush and that Liam won't bang her and eases his worries of Dain unlacing her leathers, both frozen when they kiss. • "He has his lips on my violence....well not mine" lol • Shadows rises around him, garrick and sgaeyl laughing at him.

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Ep 49: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 1-9 | Review & Discussion Part 2

Listen in as we discuss chapters 1 through 9 of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Podcast inspired by Shadow Daddy, Xaden Riorson, in The Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! https://links.fable.co/aiMtu8GyWNb Also enjoy our summary book notes: Chapter 4: • Except: dreamless sleep, rapid growth, duration varies from breed to breed. • She realizes her mom had no part of the games, Aetos backed up from Xaden, Xaden calls him out for sending them to battle. • Aetos points out a drift couldn't take out two dragons, She lies to her mom, Lilith rips into Aetos. • "You gambled and lost" xaden to Aetos. • Dain didn't know what his dad was going to do, violet stands up for herself, xaden tells him she'll never choose him lol, she's embarrassed when she doesn't even know if they are thing. • "One word.....Athbyne" xaden to dain, others watching confused. • Violet reflects on the fliers calling it a death college, xaden has orders to leave. Chapter 5: • Excerpt: Varrish should be removed from duty due to prisoner deaths. • Talk about changing years, friends "harassing" Violet about xaden, where is Heaton?, forgot nadine existed (unweaving wards). • others asking about their attack, they question the Gryphon skill level. • She's angry at xaden but still wants him lol, Garrick calls them out on their b.s. and to sort it out. • They play the game of will they, won't they. She says no bc he won't be fully honest with her. • Introduced to Varrish, Aetos threatens "secrets die with the people who keep them". • Violet gets 2 days of leave every 14 days, tarin and sgaeyl can see each other every 3 days. Chapter 6: • Violet loses her temper, tarin is pissed, andarna is sassy. • They put on a show in front of everyone when says their good byes as a way to tell her to be careful with sending letters and to not get involved. • Says she trusts him with her life but nothing else. • Dain is the wing leader and Rhiannon is their squad leader. Chapter 7: • Excerpt: All book requests must be documented. • New professor, Pf. Grady, unknown signet, riders survival course, surviving without a dragon and interrogation. • Goes and meets Jesinia to ask for books about the founding of basgiath and why there for the wards, her first lie to someone she loves. • Receives two books but only a couple hundred years old Chapter 8: • Conscription day. • Dain looks heartbroken and hasn't talked to violet, she is taking final roll call. • Xaden left 3 books about weaving fabric into tradition tyrrish knots, with a note "even when I'm not with you, there's only you" • Meets Aaric Graycastle, King Tauri's son,a.k.a Cam "you cost that parapet, and there's no going back"-Dain. • Meet Sloane Mairi, gives her the same advice as Mira, blames violet for liam's death because she knew he was protecting violet, sloane makes it • Tarin arrives, destroys the walls, Solas not scared, "you do not have the right to burn what is mine", Solas retreats, "if Solas comes near you again, he knows I will devour his human whole and let him rot within me while his heart still beats and then I'll take the eye I so graciously left him" Chapter 9: • Excerpt about green dragons offering their hatching grounds for all dragon and the first 6 put up the wards in nevarre. • Imogen invites herself to run with violet, Rhiannon questions it and violet is very awkward about it. (If I was Rhi, I would be hurt, confused, and jealous of Imogen). • Back in battle brief, Rhi points out the run and Vi still awkward. • Pr. Devera went into service and has a scar, Col. Markum knows the truth but shares of a high altitude gryphon attack. • Tarin getting pissy and tells her to shield. • Athbyne Outpost emptied for war games, then an attack, how would gryphons know this, also preomish unrest occurring. • Rhiannon suspicious of the healer Quadrant, Rhi and Violet kind of work things out. • Nadine "poses" as violet and assasinated.