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Iron Bloom is the tale of a young woman, Rose, blessed (or cursed) with extraordinary size, strength, and endurance. She discovers that the thing she's best at is fighting, and sets about trying to put her gifts to good use in the world, only to learn what terrible things there are in the world.

This was exciting and a lot of fun. I liked Rose; she never takes her gifts and abilities for granted. She wonders why she has such strength and amazing ability to heal; some people call her God-Touched or even a Warrior Goddess, but to her it's more of a curse and she can't help wondering when her luck is going to run out. Even when she thinks she's done for, though, she still finds the will to try one more time to strike down whatever enemy she's fighting. (I hope that the question of where her superhuman strength and constitution came from is addressed in later books; I'm curious.)

And even though it's what she's best at, she doesn't enjoy fighting and killing. But even worse to her is to see innocent people suffering and not try to do anything about it. She also has a tender heart; she wants to love and be loved and have a family of her own someday. I enjoyed reading a kickass female character who still has this tender, feminine side to her.

The book is fast-paced; maybe a little too fast. There were spots where I would have liked it to slow down and spread out a bit, to let me catch my breath. But I'll take charging straight ahead non-stop over pages of pointless meandering.

There are a lot of intersting things going on in this world - a lost history of magic, a golden hero-prince who I have to wonder if maybe he's too good to be true, and an evil death-worshipping barbarian warrior who doesn't care about conquering, just about killing. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these threads developed, and to following Rose's story, in the other books in this series.


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Iron Bloom Legend of the Iron Flower Book 1 eBook Billy Wong Reviews

Iron Bloom (Legend of the Iron Flower, Book One) explodes onto the page with a violent encounter that almost leaves Rose, our fated Heroine, dead long before tales of her exploits can be written. Gods, destiny or luck pull her through – revealing the first glimpses of a constitution stronger than steel, a constitution that will be tested time and time again as the chapters pile one atop the other.

With echoes of Mulan, touches of Xena and whispers of Fu Hoa – Iron Bloom is an engaging heroic fantasy that puts a female front and center. Against her parents’ wishes, fifteen year old Rose, fresh from that battle and eager to prove herself, joins the Watchman. A rare goliath of a woman, Rose rises in esteem and talent amongst the guard, taking on missions, saving lives, making enemies and slashing her name into legend.

Her sword takes her from the Guard to Mercenary troops – where her morals prove too great for the lowly deeds of paid rapists. With a blood soaked soul, Rose, seeks a reprieve as an oath bound, violence free Whitestone. Sometimes even Legends can find love and possibly peace. Fate, on the other hand, may have different plans.

The first in a series, Iron Bloom (Legend of the Iron Flower, Book One) proves an epic tale that will entertain you - and make you wince. Violent, descriptive and detailed – it may not be suitable for younger audiences, though I highly recommend it to adult fans of fantasy and adventure.
After reading one of author Billy Wong's short stories ("Bad Milk") featuring female warrior Rose Agen, I wanted to read the novel that started the series. This is it; and I wasn't surprised that I liked it. Of course, I'm a fan of strong, brave, butt-kicking heroines, and that describes Rose. Heroines of this type are more common in fantasy literature today than they used to be; but she stands out in several ways. One of the most obvious is her age, she's 15 when the book opens, and turns 16 before it ends. (Despite her age, though, this is not YA fiction, although some teens would probably like it.) Another is her strong ethical orientation. While she's not an unflawed super-saint who never makes a bad choice, she genuinely cares about others, and her sole reason for picking up the sword as a career is to protect innocents; she sees her physical prowess as carrying with it an obligation to use it for good. A third unique quality is the extent of her prowess. She was born to a snow-bound mother in the midst of the coldest winter in memory, with the firewood gone --and survived, to grow into a tall, big-boned girl with a powerful physique and an iron constitution. On several occasions, she survives wounds that she and everyone else assumes are mortal; she heals quickly; and she (and some other characters as well) can continue to fight, despite pain and loss of blood, long after any normal human in real life would be unconscious. (Although I can appreciate a protagonist whose larger than life, this aspect of the book, for me, is actually something of a negative, because it seems unrealistic, and makes her almost a super-heroine who's hard, in that respect, for normal readers to relate to.)

Despite that consideration, Rose is a well-developed character who's easy to like (Angela and Ethan are also fairly well-developed). Her internal struggles with her violent role and the amount of lives she's taken (even though she only kills the aggressively wicked) are believable and did not come across to me as superficial. Especially after she falls in with a sect of philosophically-based pacifists, this struggle adds some depth to the book. Wong writes action scenes well, and there's a lot of action here, with a staggeringly high body count and a high level of physical mayhem (beheadings, guttings, severing of limbs, etc.). But Wong doesn't wallow in gratuitous descriptions of gore; the book never degenerates into pornography of violence. His plotting is linear and somewhat episodic, but it has a variety of situations and threw me some surprises, and some thought provoking situations where right and wrong And I give him credit for creating a brawny, battle-scarred heroine whose looks don't conform to the Victoria's Secret party-line model of beauty (though that doesn't mean she isn't beautiful, outside and inside!). Bad language here is only occasional, and not very rough. There's some teenage drinking and alcohol abuse, and teenage love leads to teenage sex (although that's handled very tastefully, and there's no explicit sex) but these things aren't glorified.

Wong is not a polished stylist; his writing tends to be barebones and minimalist. World-building is also not a strength here. Some dialogue sounds stilted; there's some telling rather than showing, and we sometimes don't get all the information we'd like to have. (It's also odd to be in a medieval-like fantasy world where all the character's names would be perfectly at home in the modern U.S.) These considerations precluded the fifth star. But I still liked the book, and definitely plan to read more of the series!
Iron Bloom is the tale of a young woman, Rose, blessed (or cursed) with extraordinary size, strength, and endurance. She discovers that the thing she's best at is fighting, and sets about trying to put her gifts to good use in the world, only to learn what terrible things there are in the world.

This was exciting and a lot of fun. I liked Rose; she never takes her gifts and abilities for granted. She wonders why she has such strength and amazing ability to heal; some people call her God-Touched or even a Warrior Goddess, but to her it's more of a curse and she can't help wondering when her luck is going to run out. Even when she thinks she's done for, though, she still finds the will to try one more time to strike down whatever enemy she's fighting. (I hope that the question of where her superhuman strength and constitution came from is addressed in later books; I'm curious.)

And even though it's what she's best at, she doesn't enjoy fighting and killing. But even worse to her is to see innocent people suffering and not try to do anything about it. She also has a tender heart; she wants to love and be loved and have a family of her own someday. I enjoyed reading a kickass female character who still has this tender, feminine side to her.

The book is fast-paced; maybe a little too fast. There were spots where I would have liked it to slow down and spread out a bit, to let me catch my breath. But I'll take charging straight ahead non-stop over pages of pointless meandering.

There are a lot of intersting things going on in this world - a lost history of magic, a golden hero-prince who I have to wonder if maybe he's too good to be true, and an evil death-worshipping barbarian warrior who doesn't care about conquering, just about killing. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these threads developed, and to following Rose's story, in the other books in this series.