Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Светлина в пламъка by Дженифър Л. Арментраут, Jennifer L. Armentrout

13 reviews

em_gem17's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual assault

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts

kellyachandler's review against another edition

4.0

emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Suicide attempt

msalexnicole's review against another edition

3.5

emotional informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I had such a hard time with this book. I loved the first one and gave it 5 stars. This one just dragged for me. I feel like 300 pages could have been removed and I would have gotten all I need from it. The spice was spicing but the conversations were overdone and lonnnnnngggg and never ending between characters. I felt like although the conversations were important for world building they were just done on information overload with small amounts of plot sprinkled in. 
If you love world building and Character conversations (all characters not just between main characters) and spice. You will love this book. 

Will I read book 3: ABSOLULTY!  

Overall 3 but maybe 3.5 because I still love the characters and the world just not this book. 

Spice 4/5 - there was a lot of it! 🔥🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Vomit, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Alcohol

selestre's review against another edition

4.5

challenging 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: N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol

allisonk9's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Slavery, Blood, Murder

Minor: Suicide

louisepea's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual assault, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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: Complicated

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I loved this one. The best book between both series so far. The development that Sera and Ash make in their relationship but also in themselves is amazing. Jennifer Armentrout does a great job of showing these sweet intimate thoughtful moments in between hot and sexy passionate scenes.

The mix of adventure through exploring more of illeseeum, swoon-worthy romance, and anticipation for how they would develop a plan to defeat Kolis had me unable to put it down.

The betrayal at the end and the revelation of truths was so wild and sets up the next book. I’m excited to see how the series will unfold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Grief, Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, War, Classism

taryn_g's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

michaela_reads_books's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I really like this series of JLAs. I do think it’s kind of repetitive of the FBAA storyline and characters, BUT I think that’s okay because I kind of like this story better. And I think it also helps show the parallel between Sera and Poppy’s stories since they’re ultimately connected and related. 

This story started off slow and I felt like they were having a lot of sex (don’t get me wrong I love shut), but there wasn’t much plot development. It did pick up in the last half and once that happened I had a hard time putting the book down. The ending kind of snuck up on me and I felt left a lot of plot lines and points open that I thought would be resolved but I guess that’s because there’s going to be another book lol so I’ll just wait to find out! Overall it was a good story and plot with a twist at the end I wasn’t expecting, and I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Murder

symabee's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous medium-paced

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I always feel so conflicted about rating the books in this series. The writing is average and repetitive, but the overarching plot is intriguing enough to always keep me coming back for more. If there's one thing JLA is good at, it's a cliffhanger that insures you'll be reading the next book. At this point I'm in it for the long haul. 

I'll start with what I liked about this installment in the FBAA/ASITE series:

- Nyktos and Sera are the embodiment of enemies to lovers, and you just can't beat that. 
- Slowly piecing together the connections between the past and present is really satisfying.
- The spice is 🔥
- Plenty of conflict and character development 
- Sera is unambiguously plus-sized and still badass
 
What I didn't like:
- The use of modern words and phrases is starting to get annoying. It pulls me out of the story and disrupts the flow. One character actually said "I nope'd out of the chamber" 🤦🏻‍♀️
- There are so many side characters (primals, gods, godlings, etc) That I honestly can't keep track of who is who, their titles, and what they look like. People would die, and instead of being upset I thought "who was that again?"
- SO REPETITIVE. Things I'm tired of hearing:
•I don't know why but her use of the word 'clamped' got on my nerves (it's used 16 times in the book) if I heard "my mouth clamped shut" or "pressure clamped my chest" one more time I was going to lose it.
•"Are you reading my emotions?" IT'S OBVIOUS NYKTOS IS READING YOUR EMOTIONS SERA, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK EVERY FIVE MINUTES. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Murder, War

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts