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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

175 reviews

anndreya's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

Minor: Deadnaming, Slavery, Blood, Body shaming, and Torture

hilary_b's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death, Murder, Cursing, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Gun violence, Alcohol, and Slavery

Minor: Suicide attempt

cassidy_rain's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

“That’s the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.”

What a rollercoaster this book was! (I’m an adrenaline junkie, I loved it). I’m not going to lie, I was a little nervous to start this series because I knew it wasn’t going to be like ACOTAR or TOG, but I really ended up loving it! In my mind the fantasy genre screams “medieval” to me so I had a hard time wrapping my mind around the modern aspects. Ahem. Drugs. Guns. Cell phones. But it worked surprisingly well! No need to fear. Just goes to show what an amazing storyteller SJM is.

Crescent City is really a true crime/murder mystery/thriller meets magic and fantasy. And what a great combo it is. It was very easy for me to visualize the city and setting (I imagine it being kind of like Rome, lol). I felt completely immersed into the story from start to finish. The first chapter was a lot of info dump, but after that I found it fairly easy to follow. There’s a lot of phrases that get repeated (I’ve read a lot of SJM books so I know this is pretty typical at this point, but can we please come up with a bit more variety?).

I loved the characters! Bryce is sassy and sexy and selfless like you would not believe. Hunt is broody and rough around the edges, but a big softie deep down. The tension is so good. Danika and the wolves stole my heart from the very beginning. Ruhn Danaan…. Crown Prince of the Valbaran Fae… nuff said; can’t wait to see more of his character in the future books. Lehabah and Syrinx. 🥹

“Bryce was a ghost for a long time, Hunt. She pretended she wasn’t, but she was…. You brought her back to life.”

I had a great time with this and excited to see where the series goes! 

Tropes: 
• enemies to friends to lovers
• found family

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Gun violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

florecita_lectora's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Murder, Death, Slavery, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence

livvmarks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

So so so good, really challenged my world building skills at the beginning but once I got a hang of it it went super fast! Of course the last 100 pages had every twist and turn imaginable and I loved every second of it. I thought no other SJM series could match up with ACOTAR for me, but I 100% fell in love with these characters and this world. 1,000,000/10!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Slavery, Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual assault, Classism, Gun violence, Medical content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Death, Grief, Physical abuse, Addiction, Gore, Misogyny, War, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Torture, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Murder, and Violence

loiseigenraam's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Classism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Suicide attempt

garbage_mcsmutly's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was in many ways a book about grief, about losing hope, about feeling alone. I cried a lot and maybe felt a little bit emotionally manipulated (but isn't that why we read?).

But it's also a book whose message (said repeatedly, almost ad nauseum) is one of love conquering all.

And OMG it was so long. But honestly, with the amount of plot points we had to get through, it was warranted. The pace was pretty normal, not too slow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Grief, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, War, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Torture, and Vomit

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Police brutality, Death, Murder, Racism, Classism, Sexual content, Violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Police brutality, Child abuse, War, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Genocide

Minor: Domestic abuse and Colonisation

annamary54's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

This was a difficult book for me to get into, but once I just gave into the fact that I wouldn’t understand all the info dumping in the beginning, I had a great time. Lots of world building that was thrown at the reader right away. So much that i stopped trying to comprehend. I relied on the fact that SJM is a very repetitive writer, and just pushed through. There’s definitely a lot that I still missed, but that is okay cause SJM usually explains things well when they happen. And I’m reading in the kindle, so I can just search for names of things/characters in the book and go back to when it’s first explained. Hunt is very close to being number one on the book boyfriends list…. Idk what else to say about this book. I loved Bryce, she’s funny and strong asf. Some very millennial humor moments in this book, but also some I chuckled at. I had a great time overall, I could already see myself rereading this series and I haven’t even read the other books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Vomit, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Mental illness, Hate crime, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Death, and Gore

Minor: War and Child abuse

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

Wow, it took me a long ass time to get into this new series but once I was in it, I was hooked! 

I got a bit grumbly with the lore dump at the beginning but I understand why it had to be done. It was neat seeing a SJM world that was so similar to our own with technology AND fantasy characters. I could also see little strings possibly tying this world to ACOTAR and that made me VERY intrigued about the possibilities of that in the future books! 

It took me a good while to like Bryce, just like it took a while for Hunt to like her too. I too, was quite annoyed with her in the beginning, but as she revealed more about herself I understood why she acted the way they did. 

Their love story was inevitable from the start and I really liked their banter BUT I feel like his utter and complete betrayal of Bryce’s trust near the end was kind of washed over in lieu of more important factors of the story. Like he was forgiven without even a conversation?!?! In my head I was like, “Hold up BB, I’m not done being mad at him yet!” But I guess him being sold into his worst nightmare and almost dying kind of repents him for it 🤷‍♀️ 

I kind of thought Ruhn was a loser at first, but I decided I adore him now and he must be protected at all costs. 

Lehabah is a queen. May she rest in peace. 

I’m excited to see what happens next! 🕺

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Drug use, Grief, Confinement, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Alcohol, Body horror, Torture, Death, and Injury/Injury detail