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Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

29 reviews

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Animal death, Suicide, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, War, Cursing, Death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Self harm, Vomit, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Animal cruelty, Deportation, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Body horror, and Genocide

sdemo08's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

Whew. I got a little worried toward the end and wasn't sure if I could finish. There were so many plot points to keep up with and I felt like every couple of pages was some sort of mind-boggling plot twist, martyrdom, or marathon between characters racing to the finish before their clock stopped. Ultimately I liked it but I'm glad it's over.

[Fire on "black currant" crocheted blanket]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Sexual assault, War, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Vomit, Gaslighting, Genocide, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

avie_j's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Murder, Death, Gore, Grief, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Moderate: Torture, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy and Physical abuse

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.5

very much satisfied with the ending. i’m gonna miss this series so much.

this book had it’s weaker moments, i really think it could’ve been much shorter and the pacing wasn’t that great. 

some POVs (especially at the beginning) were kinda boring. it felt off how i had to read about Aedion’s whiny complains and Chaol and Yrene’s shitty idea to meet his parents while the POVs revolving around Dorian/Manon & Aelin/Fenrys and the “looking for Aelin” team were just so much better? 

the reunions, the reveals and the action/battles were absolutely the best parts of that book, i had so much fun there. and i have almost zero complains about the ending, i loved these characters so much and i would absolutely read more of this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Grief, Torture, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Slavery

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Child abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Abandonment, Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War, Vomit, Classism, Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Violence

signebrum's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.25

This is the kind of conclusion you want to and 8-books series.
Almost a thousand pages, and at no point does it seem slow-paced.

This book has a lot of war. It can’t really surprise anyone, but as someone who isn’t the biggest fan of battle-scenes, this book is quite heavy on them. That said, the action is written nice, and you can follow what happening quite well. 

The series as a whole deserves the hype it gets! ToG and CoM are a little slow, but from Heir of Fire it takes of, and I’d argue Heir of Fire is only as good as it is because of the ground work and world building laid out in the first 2 books.
I was quite surprised feeling nostalgic for the early books reading Kingdom of Ash. Sooo much has happened to the poor characters!

Over all, a great series, with a final book worthy of all its predecessors!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, and Gore

Minor: Pregnancy

madisonvee11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

I love to read fantasy and it had been a long time (almost 15 years) since a book series made me fall in love with it so thoroughly. I have not cried this much over the ending of a series since Harry Potter in 2007. 
This was a beautifully written ending to a stunning, complicated, well rounded and overall spectacular set of stories. I cannot wait to start my reread in a couple of months in preparation for the next of SJMs books to come out. 
I am so thankful for these characters and their stories. I am thankful that I got to take all of this in the way that I did, it was magical. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Emotional abuse, Violence, Torture, Confinement, Death, War, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

mirroball's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Torture, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, and Grief

pandora_rose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

Like some of the previous books in this series, this was slow to start. Once I was fully immersed in the story though I flew through it.

All in all, this was a wonderful round-up of a series that had been recommended to me by so many, that has had twists and turns along the way. Good and bad. Surprising and ones I had worked out.

I loved the ending, and it makes me wonder if they really did live out their days as they planned. I cried buckets through the last quarter, which I had been warned about. Emotional isn't the word. Though if you don't get emotionally invested in characters then you might just be okay.

The book rounded up all the plots and didn't leave any gaps. It was a bittersweet ending, but a fantastic one regardless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Physical abuse, Torture, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Medical content, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury