Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.”―Xaden Riorson Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College―Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.