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Getting that Emotional Buy-In

Fourth Wing Analysis Part 1

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Monalisa Foster
Mar 16, 2025
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There’s a line at the start of Iron Flame (Book 2 in the Empyrean Trilogy by Rebecca Yarros) that should really be the genre logline:

Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.

I bring it to your attention as a genre logline, not a series or book one, one that applies not just to Romance, or Romantasy, but to men’s fiction as well. One could argue t…

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