Ryan Millar

Willow’s Flame is an absolute train wreck of a book. The writing is clumsy, full of basic errors, and constantly jerks between points of view like the author couldn’t decide how to tell her own story. The characters are hollow cardboard cutouts acting out contrived drama, with none of them feeling real or worth caring about. For something so short, it somehow manages to drag endlessly, only to rush through the climax and end with a weak, half baked conclusion. And if the awful writing wasn’t enough, the author herself is a massive red flag. She’s publicly admitted on social media that she writes “exclusively with a white voice, with white characters” because, in her words, “whites have been accused of having no culture but slavery.” Readers have also called out her racist and homophobic views, which makes slogging through this already bad book feel even more repulsive. Put simply: this isn’t just a poorly written, amateurish mess, it’s a book dripping with the author’s own ugly prejudices. Save yourself the headache and skip this trash entirely.