Heart of Iron

Heart of Iron

by Ashley Poston

4.2 (312)

4.2 stars from 312 reviews

482 pages~8 hr readPublished by Balzer + BrayPublished 2018-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

  • You love space opera with real heart. Firefly and The Expanse scratched an itch, and you want more ragtag crews and found family dynamics.
  • You're after romance that builds slowly between characters who start as rivals. The banter and tension matter as much as the kiss.
  • You want a female lead who's actually competent and flawed. Ana's a thief and a scoundrel, not a chosen one waiting to discover her power.

Maybe not for you if...

  • You prefer standalone novels. This is book one of a series, and the ending leaves threads intentionally open.
  • You want a plot driven purely by action. There's genuine character work and relationship building that slows the pace in places.
  • You're looking for grimdark or morally grey characters. This skews younger and more optimistic about redemption than Game of Thrones.

About this book

Heart of Iron reimagines the legends of Anastasia Romanov as a science fiction space opera. Seventeen-year-old Ana is an outlaw who was found as a child drifting through space with D09, a sentient android and one of the last remaining illegal Metals. Raised by a fearsome space captain and her crew, Ana now desperately seeks a way to fix D09, who has been glitching. Ana's quest to save D09 leads her to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that might hold answers. However, a spoiled Ironblood boy obtains the coordinates first for his own reasons. When their plans go wrong, Ana and the Ironblood become fugitives hunted by their entire kingdom—and not everyone wants them alive. Their journey into a lost corner of the universe unearths dangerous secrets and forces Ana to face an impossible choice: protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves. The story combines action, romance, and science fiction elements across an intergalactic adventure.

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