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
Okay thank you all my friends think I’m crazy for hating iron flame but I don’t think I will even finish it