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Fourth Wing   And Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros      So, this is kind of a very late book review since I completed these two books about 2 years back. I had come across this book several times on booktube but had been too doubtful to try it thinking that it would be a bit of too much of romance for me. I finally gave in after my bookish classmates relentlessly recommended this book.      This books belong to the Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros.The first two books Fourth Wing and Iron Flame came out in 2023 and it was followed by the third book Onyx Storm in 2025, which I am yet to read. The series is set to have two more books which are currently in development.     Now moving on to the first book, Fourth Wing, the narration is in first person mostly from the POV of our protagonist Violet Sorrengail, daughter of a powerful General mother  and a  dead Scribe father. The story begins with her getting into the Rider Quadrant on her mothe...

 Civil Lines Radhika Swarup     This was another find from the fill the box book fair  I went to and also another book I went for just because of its cover.But this time the book did not betray me unlike the last one. Civil Lines by Radhika Swarup is a quite interesting book which explores struggles of women in the Indian society, sisterhood and grief.     The novel follows two sisters , Siya and her elder sister Maya. Siya travels back to her home, a 'crumbling Lutyens' behemoth'(a large mansion),  in the infamous Civil Lines in Delhi to an under maintained house and a sister who is losing her character and life to grief.      A major turning point in the story arrives when the sisters decide to revamp their childhood home and they discover  their mother, Rupa Sharma's, first and last editorial , penned in the early 1900s.They discover another woman behind their mother's motherly instincts and her mask of love.A rebel , strong and ...