Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Fire In The Star by Kamilla Benko

1 review

dandelionsteph's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

There's a bit of ending fatigue, and the idea Sophie's mysterious illness was an inevitability that would

kill her if she stayed a human

felt like a cop-out to

transform her into a unicorn and keep her in Arden

. I know it often makes the story richer to make the villain sympathetic, but, at this point, it feels there's an oversaturation of sympathetic-or-

redeemed

villains.  It also brings up the

redemption-equals-death

trope, which makes the sympathetic realization near the end feel cheap. 

I do like how how Mayor Nadia

being made ruler of Arden had nothing to do with her royal blood and everything to do with her just leadership and valor. I like how she was simply made the first prime minister, and Arden was made a republic

. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Animal death, and War

Minor: Alcohol

I think there's a brief mention of 'cordial' (an alcoholic drink). I do not know whether to tag it for "chronic illness" or "terminal illness".