Ep 57: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 47-56 | Review & Discussion Part 1

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01/11/25 • 58 min

Listen in as we discuss chapters 47 through 56 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 47: • Initiates have reddish rings to their eyes that come and go depending on how often they drain • Asim eyes fluctuate in degrees of red and vein affected by emotions • Sages are responsible for Initiates, eyes are permanently red • Maven's are like generals and never captured • Cat insulting her, anger taking over her, choke hold while saying the finger move in Violets ear 😡, Cat wants a crown and found out about the engagement. • Nearly kills Catriona, cat still thinks she won, xaden broke it up, literally carries her away Chapter 48: • Removes her boots knowing she is into from Fourth Wing • My house, my chair, my woman • I wonder if he can read her intentions lol • All business, this is just to make her train sending energy to the orb (/s) • Onyx wraps around her mind and she hears his thoughts • Screams his name in an echo-y throne room • I thought she shocked him but really he is trying to resist her so she can see that she is not a convenient placeholder • She says she doesn't know how long they were engaged, he said that's the problem, you never ask.... betrothed • Infantry ex- lover, Xaden pushing her to ask him questions, her inferiority, and violet agrees with you that Cat is just like Xaden. • Overall Xaden is pushing her to face her emotions • Cat came to THEIR door in the robe 🤣 • Gave her a dagger to protect her from Cat, xaden never went down on Cat, doubt they cleaned up before his meeting and her classes 😂 Chapter 49: • Give patches to flyers, Violet welcomes Cat and fliers to Iron squad, Violet thanks her for teaching xaden the trick, Imogen cackles. • Ridoc is hilarious • I could use a snack, we do not eat our allies • Head to the library, sawyer flirts with Jesinia, books and weapons from tecarus (no need to ppl in Basgiath) • Dain points out translation is wrong, they talk about their history. • Calls out Violet for skipping ahead when translating, I thought she could embue but he embues the ward stone. • Tells her to be careful with her words, asks if she is in love with Xaden and would after he heard what xaden said, obviously she says yes Chapter 50: • No rider feels they've reached the limits to their power, venin temptation? • She forgot Dain was good with language. • Target practice is not going well... • Practicing Darth sideus magic realizing her power is beautiful, control doesn't overheat her • "Dragons make no mistakes" Tairn • Heaton is looking rough, they took 7 ppl, confused on the location and people talk Chapter 51 • On a roof?, chocolate cake • Chance of 7 inches of snow 😏 • Wants her to ask him questions, I bet he is aware she is scared to ask questions that will risk their relationship and doesn't want to offer up relationship ending info without her asking • They are screwed for the war • They figure out Flame, Dain quietly admits he like Xadens idea for squad arrangement. • She solves Breath and Flame

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Ep 56: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 43-46 | Review & Discussion

Listen in as we discuss chapters 43 through 46 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 43: • Must walk the Gryphons to Aretia, narrow path with gryphon traps. • He didn't have time to question each flier for their intentions before heading on a secret mission • "You did not bond the inferiority that are gryphons, you bonded dragons. Take them for a walk to prove themselves." • Vi walking with Sloane and Maren (flier). Threshing is called harvest • Rhi with Cat, Liam didn't like Cat either. • Sloane likes her now. • Learn how fliers bond, brings a smile to her face 😂, Maren shocked at the question of what happens to the bodies • Aretia's first hatchling, unprotected. • Dain assisting jumping across, violet crosses with the sword. • The hilt is 8in., 7 Ridoc corrects, luella falls, Ridoc shot in the stomach Chapter 44 • Cat blames violet, sloane offers to toss her for fun. • Brennan saves Ridoc, but gryphon doesn't :( • Wyvern arrived, they can't see, violet gets on Tairn, no googles. • "You're faster than them right?" "Don't insult me" • Bait the wyvern, improving her aim, struck 4. • "Your difficult to impress" "I'm a black morning star tail..." • Collective mind between wyvern and venin, in a book from tecarus. Chapter 45: • Excerpt about the venin recruiting fliers who didn't bond in the last 50 years. • Flyers react normal to death of friends, reflects on their threshing too. • Rhiannon village turned away refugees. • Vi can embue daggers, cat in a see through robe once when Vi knocked, Rhi in a relationship with Tara, supposedly Imogen is not in a relationship with Quinn but has a crush on Garrick...not buying it • "Civil is overrated" -Andarna when everyone is out on the flight field. Ridoc insults Andarna by calling her mini tairn • Heaton and emery on missions with Xaden confirming they are a lieutenant. • Sawyer wants to learn to sign, rhi's family moved to Aretia • Tyrrish rune class, the prices is tempering, neither flyer nor rider knew of this, banned a couple hundred yrs after unification. Skilled with runes can compete with signets. • Tyrrish knots teaches this • Cat first to succeed Chapter 46: • Vi describes Andarna power pearlescent • Xaden transporting weapons to tecarus, she is scared to ask questions that jeopardize her happiness. • Col. Mairi runes for the marked ones, for Fen Riorson's blood line, "only" child 👀, counters the signet of the rider of the dragon that executes. Melgren can't see the outcomes of battles with them in it. • Violet jealous of Cat being better than her at runes • Combining flyers and riders. • Cat challenges violet, Andarna suggests scratching her eyes out, tairn suggests her knee caps • She fights like xaden

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Ep 58: 'Iron Flame' Chapters 47-56 | Review & Discussion Part 2

Listen in as we discuss chapters 47 through 56 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 52 • Hanging out with her friends, sawyer flirting with jesinia. • Asks Aaric if he can read old lucerish • She calls together a group to put up the wards but it means the flyers won't be able to use their power • Says she won't lie to Xaden, flyers need to decide, offers them conduits so they aren't defenseless • Another nightmare, still sounds like future, she's suspended and trying to convert her, sage thing is right she will take down the wards • Tairn makes fun of her for talking to herself and for having nightmares • TAIRN DOES KNOW SHE IS IN A DIFFERENT DEN • Squad games, to find runes, xaden shows up, violet doesn't tell him her plan yet but he figured it out, odd interaction between Imogen and Garrick Chapter 53: • Embuing natural to siphons • Tairn dropping violet off at one cave while he explores another area • Arguments with Cat, cat calls out the riders for not sharing • Violet gives Sloane a conduit (what is that again) • Discussion of second signet, violet just realized about xaden, Solas shows up, visia didn't make it Chapter 54: • Andarna protects them all from the fire • Sloane drain Cat's power, breaks her orb, jabs it into Solas, Darth sideous method • Sounded like sloane siphoned from violet and gave to cat • Andarna killed Solas and she earned her scorpiontail • Back in Aretia, Xadens upset she risked her life for Cat being 3rd in line Chapter 55: • He starts the convo about mom deal and their communication • Confirmed that yup he didn't want to give her information she wasn't ready for, and let her take down her walls. • She calls him out for saying he won't be entirely truthful with her. Not wrong 👀 • She did ask about the scars last year, he says he can't change the past, he calls her out for not forgiving him yet. • She questions how much else there could be(great question) • She calls him out for him making her ask questions but he wants her to demand it since she is too scared to get answers she doesn't like. • Battle axe analogy, mother's blanket • She asks about his second signet Chapter 56 • Set up the wards, success but no flame • Go to the cliffs, 12.5% faster than sgaeyl • Slow build to his confession, how long to fall out of love • Answers her thought, not really intention, No distance wielder in centuries • 'You've always deserved better than me and no one knows or else he'd be dead' • Tairn faces sgaeyl and crushed and betrayed • Differences between his signet and their bond. He calls it intentions and in pictures • Ryan- face reader second signet? • "My love isn't fickle so you better be ready to answer all of my questions " • Hundreds of wyvern • Xaden says even if you don't believe anything else I say, believe that I live you . do not speak to to her like death is an option and shield her from xaden lol • Wyvern's heartbeat ceases • Melgren asked for a meeting and no more than 2 marked ones • Syrena can still wield