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Review title: Some readers are easy to please
Product review: After reading Ball's Empires of Sand, which I loved and gave 5 stars, I gave it to my mother, who also loved it. So I bought her a copy of Ironfire, which I also read. I have to say that, although I finished this book, I was shocked that it was so much worse than Empires. The book is more about love lost and found than the battle for Malta - fully three-quarters of the book passes before the battle starts. But when it does, it goes on, and on, and on. Every day the assaults are more horrible than before (or so says the author). How could the Knights Hospitaler and the people of Malta possibly last another day? But they do, and this happens day, after day, after day. It just gets tiresome after a while. And boring. This book is not in the same league as Empires of Sand.
