HotTake (My Unresolved/One-Sided Beef with War Storm)
Iris should never had a POV, as cool and mysterious as her introduction was in King's Cage. Her POV negatively affected the overall impact of the plot in War Storm.
Let me explain:
Since she was a new character with unknown goals and motives, she was shrouded in mystery, with some readers even hoping that maybe she would be an unlikely ally. It would have been interesting to figure out who she is.
Instead, her POV was an exposition/info dump about the Lakelands, added too many eyes on the OPPOSING SIDE of the war, and diminished the possible impact and tension of the plot twists that happened in War Strom such as;
Anabel and Julian offer Salin Irial to Iris without ANYONE of the Main Characters knowing directly (Not even Cal, who is heir to the throne and their close family).
Iris BETRAYING the Great Betrayer Maven. The moment I read her thoughts about Maven, where he is constantly undermining and dismissing her. I knew Iris was gonna betray her husband.
Volo's Death at the hands of Anabel and Julian. The fact that only Evangeline picked up on her father being offered to the Cygnets when Julian and Anabel gave Salin in exchange for Maven was heartbreaking and conflicting, but it would have been so much more dramatic if we didn't see it from a mile away.
Adding Iris' POV also took away space for more Cal and Maven POVs which are the characters that the fandom was excited to read when Aveyard informed which characters will be having their POVs in War Storm.
Overall, Iris had one of the coolest character introductions in the RQ series, but it went tank when her POVs gave away too much too soon, and for me, the story suffered because of it.