Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

4 reviews

elizabeth_lepore's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Violence, War, Death, Murder, Gore, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Pregnancy, Drug abuse, and Rape

axolotlhappy's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Main character who just witnessed his whole town being murdered and burned to the ground: 😢

Everyone in this book: Don’t be such a girl! 🙄

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Addiction, Classism, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

jacquibear's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Rape, and Slavery

terrabby's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Uuuh mixed feeling with this one. 

Strong points: I have to agree with virtually everyone else here, the magic system is cool af, very original and thoroughly explained. Most of the characters were interesting and well-written, especially Gavin, which is the main reason why I didn't dnf. 

Now, onto the weaknesses: This book suffers from male author writing women syndrome and it has quite a few "she breasted tittily" moments. On top of that, it's pretty damn fatphobic for a book with a fat mc. Like, it makes an effort to be explicitely fatphobic at some points. 

The writing style was meh, didn't love it, didn't hate it. Too many battle descriptions but that's just personal preference.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Vomit