Too much for one book that I ~thought~ was a standalone (I will also go into this more later on).
I get that these things do happen – and need to happen – but there was just too much. There was a lot of “I promise you on iron and stars” (which I will go into in my next point a little more), and “this character is dead but no they’re not but maybe they’re evil now!!11” and going missing and fighting. In fact, the whole cast of Heart of Iron was diverse – a lot of the side characters were racially diverse, and there was a side f/f couple as well. It made my heart incredibly happy to see three diverse characters unabashedly leading this story. Heart of Iron had this in SPADES, so that was super enjoyable for me to read about.Īna is a brown girl, Robb is gay and olive-skinned, and Jax is queer (no history about his identity or labels were given).
I will always love high-stakes political storylines, especially when royalty is involved. I definitely wanted both of the ships to end up in a happy place at the end of Heart of Iron. And I loved the tumultuous relationship between Jax and Robb that oscillated between enemies and lovers on an almost constant basis. I love the fact that Ana was in love with Di even though he was an AI. I really liked both of these relationships. There were two main ships in this novel: Ana and Di, and Robb and Jax.
There were enough of the original events to clearly see that this was an Anastasia retelling, which I loved. I love the story (and the 90s animated film) so I was incredibly excited to see the concept taken and turned into something completely different. I love the concept of a space opera retelling of Anastasia. But when a darkness from Ana’s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves? What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives-and unearth dangerous secrets. Now their entire kingdom is after them-and the coordinates-and not everyone wants them captured alive. When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. But D09-one of the last remaining illegal Metals-has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.Īna’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. How: A copy of this novel was provided by HarperCollins for review via Edelweiss.
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