Rebecca Yarros’s Iron Flame is available on Audible as a 28 hrs 16 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton.
Publisher’s Summary
“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” Xaden Riorson
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College-Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.
But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.
Book #1 Fourth Wing
Book #2 Iron Flame
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 28 hrs 16 mins
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Release year: 2023
- Audible category: Science Fiction & Fantasy / Fantasy / Epic
Listener Ratings
Iron Flame holds an average listener rating of 4.8/5 from 47251 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.7/5
- Story: 4.8/5
- 5-star ratings: 83% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Pick a different narrator!!”
Rebecca Soler breathes into the mic, swallows, sniffs, she can’t keep a steady pace, or volume. I enjoy her narration other than I genuinely had to slow down and speed up in the story so much that I had to be more active than if I had just picked up the book. This is incredibly inconvenient for those who are visually impaired and switching these would be more of a nuisance. I restarted chapters over and over trying to figure out what happened. My normal speed is 2x-2.5x, however, I had it down to 1.15x and that was too fast. Then she would slow down again and 2x then felt slow.I can’t even guarantee this is a good audio for a reread because of her bad narration. The audio for Fourth Wing had to be redone because Rebecca was sniffing up snot for 11 chapters. You can still tell she was sick, but this is telling about the quality we’re expecting from her now.
— Danielle, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Amazing story, still don’t love the performance “
This is very likely my favorite book of all time but the spots where the narrator is reading spoken character lines using the wrong character voices she’s established things start getting lost. It’s way better than the problems in Fourth Wing’s audio but had I not been reading along I would’ve been kinda lost. Def worth it but still kinda wish they did more edits— Bliss, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “y’all are haters”
i rlly like the narrator, i think all these other reviews are dramatic. book is amazing and full of plot twists— Elizabeth Wright, Audible listener
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