Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

17 reviews

anitaforthewin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

While this book is definitely a bridge to book three, it’s so well written and expands the world that Godkiller started. The magic system and gods are explored so much more and the characters go through some intense shit and grow a lot. We also get some characters that had pretty small roles in Godkiller get a much bigger role in Sunbringer. 

There were times I felt the pacing was a little off, particularly in the middle, it felt a little flagging and I found myself a bit antsy. Towards the end it became clear that there’s no way we’re wrapping this story up in this book and I’m glad it’s a trilogy because if it was wrapped up quickly with a specific person being killed it would have been so unsatisfying. 

One super random thing but I noticed kind of a lot of typos and missed words that took me out of the story. For a traditionally published book that’s lowkey yikes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

annick's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This comes across better and more complex and nuanced than book 1. I like how the plot has setbacks for several protagonists because of their own choices and because of cruel circumstances (it reminds me of ASOIAF). The narrator does a good job with using northern English accents for kissing and other Taliscian characters. I winced with the Welsh accent for the hermit at the river Aan source.  I will read book three but not sure I’ll re read this soon 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Grief

charley0796's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I found this book to be much slower paced than Godkiller, with too little of Kissen. I did read quickly through the last two thirds of the book as I wanted to get to the reunion which was climactic.
Much of the book is building for the third and final series, so there’s a lot of tension and pause. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

pm_me_book_recs's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, War, Death, Genocide, and Violence

cryosphinx's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

Unfortunately, I think this suffers from second book syndrome. I enjoyed it, but mostly because I enjoy the world that Kaner has crafted. I do like the multiple POvs I had a hard time caring about Elogast's POV that I found myself skimming them and I'm not sure WHY other than I wanted Kissen\Skedi\Inara's more since they had more going on. Since it's a trilogy, this seems really suck in the middle of trying to connect the two so not a lot "happens" since it's building the world and the characters more. And since the characters have been separated, you lose a lot of the banter and growth that came from the first book developing them as a quartet. Hopefully that is remedied in the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Ableism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

chanlo1994's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

Kissen is my favorite character of all of 2024 so far. Good job author for excellent characterization all around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, War, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, and Toxic friendship

pheenic's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Violence, War, and Cursing

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Body horror, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol

anamustacho's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

The details make sense afterwards but sometimes the extra descriptions feel too much. I believe it also feels that way because of the suspense, the thrill.

I did not expect that turn of events. I hope book 3 will be out soon!

In het kort: als 2 honden vechten om een been dan loopt de 3de er mee heen

Thema: bloedvergiet, avontuur, diversiteit in persoonlijkheid en sexualiteit, gevloek, moord, afgoderij, politieke machtsstrijd

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cursing, Death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Self harm, Alcohol, Murder, and Grief

deedireads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Sunbringer is a solid sequel to the much-loved Godkiller, although it does have a bit of second-book syndrome. That said, it definitely set us up for an epic third book.

This one is much slower paced than Godkiller — it took me 13 days to finish it, despite its reasonable 400 pages, because I kept picking up other books too. But I wasn’t mad at it. There’s plenty of character development (despite our MCs being separated for 99% of the story), especially for Inara. There’s also lots of information discovery and at least one twist I didn’t see coming.

All in all, I’m looking forward to the third book when we get all our characters back together, fighting toward the same end. It’s gonna be good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, and Death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

hardbackhoarder's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

i would offer anything - ANYTHING - to a god to get my hands on the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, War, Violence, Medical trauma, and Grief

Moderate: Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Abandonment, Racism, Death, and Colonisation

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Self harm, and Alcohol