Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston

Heart of Iron (The Iron Kingdom, #1)

by Ashley Poston

Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.

Ana’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them.

When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and not everyone wants them captured alive.

What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives—and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana’s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves?

Reviewed by Nessa Luna on

4 of 5 stars

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An Anastasia retelling, in space? Sign me UP! I love it when books are surprising, and Heart of Iron was certainly a surprising book. It went in a way I had not expected it would go and that made me enjoy it just a bit more. For a moment, about halfway through, I was afraid it was going to disappoint because Ana got revealed as being the lost heir already, I had not expected that to happen until the end but the story picked up SO MUCH after this.

I loved all the characters (especially Jax and Robb), I loved the relationships, and I really loved the Anastasia/Romanov influences throughout the story. If you loved the animated movie and if you love reading about the actual Romanovs, I recommend you try this book out!

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