Iron Flame By Rebecca Yarros
Spoilers for Fourth Wing Iron Flame is the second book of The Empyreon series and the sequel to Fourth Wing, continuing Violet's story at the Basgiath war college into her second year as she deals with the revelations from the first book. Violet has to simultaneously try to continue with her somewhat normal life struggling to survive in the rider's quadrant and deal with the knowledge that wyverns are real, that the people in charge are doing nothing to help, and that she is being kept out of the rebellion she so desperately wants to help. A new vice commander joining the college who is determined to break Violet to get her to confess what she knows and give up the secrets of the rebellion makes the deadly war college even more dangerous than usual. I really liked this as a sequel to the fourth wing, I feel like it expanded on the consequences of the first book very realistically. The knowledge that Violet gains at the end of the last book shakes her to the core, loosing one...