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bakatan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Suicide, War, Child death, Slavery, and Genocide
Moderate: Pedophilia, Murder, Rape, Animal death, and Blood
diana_raquel's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
As serialized books go, there's something called "second-book syndrome", wherein a writer fails to write a second book that will live up to the first one. Well, this book doesn't suffer from this syndrome. It was better than the first, even. This book is the one that shows that the arguments used for criticizing in a negative way the first fell apart (I addressed these arguments in my review of Captive Prince). The relationship between the main characters starts to be a more equal one and the plot continues to be interesting as the first one, with a well-structured structure and plot twists that fall into place at the right moment.
This is truly one of my favorite series! I completely recommend it!
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, Gore, Kidnapping, Slavery, Torture, War, Physical abuse, and Death
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Suicide, Child abuse, and Rape
Minor: Infidelity and Pregnancy
cait's review
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Slavery, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Blood, Bullying, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Sexual assault
dead_colonel's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Slavery, Death, and War
Minor: Child death, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Murder
bugcollector's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
When he's mean to me, but he's mean TO MEπ
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, War, and Violence
rainbownoir's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: War, Sexual content, and Violence
dracoarys's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Im obsessed.
The war building up and exploding in the end was something I really liked and, obviously, it serves as a good cliffhanger for the next book. The latest revelation about the regent and Kastor were, not THAT unexpected but still shocking.
I liked everything about this book, it was a great read, and Im dying to read the next one.
(also Laurent's cleverness is something I will never get tired to read).
Graphic: Slavery, Rape, and Pedophilia
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, and War
sophie42's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Slavery
Moderate: Death of parent, War, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Death
Minor: Vomit
anjae's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicide, Torture, and War
20sidedbi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Slavery, Violence, War, Trafficking, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Homophobia