I have two. The Ritual and Drowning.
The Ritual is pure smut. 61 chapters and every one contains a graphic, demeaning sex scene. I’m convinced the author was an adult film screenwriter and decided to try their hand at writing a novel. There isn’t a single likable character in this book.
Drowning isn’t a great work of literature. I felt that the characters were very two-dimensional. I hated how naive the author made the protagonist. It made me have a lack of sympathy for her. The ending was series finale of Dexter bad.
I enjoyed the first one in a guilty pleasure, objectively not good but dragons and sex and magic school trope! I read quickly too so it was a fun fluffy ready for me
The second one just came out and it is SO MuCH WORSE. Everything you noted is cranked up to ten, plus imo, an overly complicated military plot that the author did not give us the time or the background to understand. It’s truly unbearable I’m even more embarrassed that I liked the first one
I’m currently in the same stage of embarrassment. It’s so so bad.
Okay thank you all my friends think I’m crazy for hating iron flame but I don’t think I will even finish it
Ok this makes me feel better. I’m on chapter 17 of iron flame and I feel like I’m banging my head against the wall. The whiplash I have between the break neck pacing of the first book and the second is insane. There is sooooo much unnecessary dialogue so far in iron flame I’m STRUGGLING. I get that it’s supposed to be a 5 book series but holy shit, let’s move it along peopleeeee