Name: The Iron Butterfly
ISBN: 9781475070378

Chanda Hahn

The Iron Butterfly

Monicap

I tried. I truly did. When trusted friends recommend me books, I try, I do. (althoguh perhaps I should rethink that policy for friends who have different taste in books than I)

But, it just, ugh...

Basic conversation I had with my friend:
Me: there should have be more commas.
My friend: I'll be the first to agree she's not the best at grammar, but it's a good story.
Me: If you say so...
My friend: Where are you?
Me: I'm at the part where she's talking to the Council of Adepts and... nothing else is going on.
My friend: Give it a couple more chapters. It gets better.
Me: Allright...

one day and two chapters later, I'm still bored, and I say it: "I can't do it. I just can't do it."

But I promised my friend I would try--so I did the one. last. thing
that has been known to make me excited about books that I don't like.
I read the last chapter.

The last chapter was intriguing. Not enough to make me want to read all the chapters in between chapters 8 and last chapter, but interesting enough to make me want to read the next one. 
(Which totally doesn't make sense.)
I don't see any sort of plot that connects where I left off in Chapter 8 to the last chapter.

Thalia falls in love with Joss.
I already knew that.
Magic happens.
When doesn't it?
We meet some dude named Bearen. 
How many chapters will that honestly take? One? Possibly two?

But-- some things that I assume are triggers for book 2 happened in the last chapter.

Thalia is found by her family and they start heading 'home'.
Some other chick is a bitch to Thalia clearing pissing all over Joss, 'He's Mine' style.
Some dude called Fox Fur attacks said bitchy girl. Thalia hypothesized two possible reasons for it, but to me, it seemed like he was defending her honor, or something like that. Perhaps Fox Fur is an old boyfriend from Thalia's other life?

While all these things are INTRIGUING however, they a) aren't enough, and b) even if they were, I'd probably need to read the middle bit of this one. And I reeeaaaallllllllyyy don't want to.

Cortnie

I'm giving this one star only because Goodreads won't let me post in here otherwise. I marked as DNF after only 7% because I could not handle the way it was going. It felt stilted and a bit awkward and was moved a bit too quickly for my liking, I think. It might just not be my cup of tea, frankly?