Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

1271 reviews

skurtyka89's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Was this a five star book? Pretty close. Could I put this book down for a second? No. Did Violet drive me insane? Yes. I know she went through some major trauma at the end of the first book, but she took a big step back emotionally. She was very immature, annoying and petty through the majority of the book. It was incredibly frustrating to read her this way when she was so forceful and strong in the first book. The constant back and forth, push and pull, between Violet and Xaden was very repetitive too throughout the book. Though there were some pretty spicy scenes mixed in, which is always fun. The plot is also much slower paced in this book. A lot seems to be happening, but at the same time not much happens at all. There was a lot of learning, researching, figuring out battle plans, practicing magic, etc. A lot of information dumping that got to be a bit much at times. Overall, this book was still an enjoyable read. There were some pretty intense, heart pounding, WTF moments scattered throughout. And the whole ending happened so fast, was so emotional and left such a huge cliffhanger that I kept thinking about it for the next few days. While this book didn’t quite stack up to the first book, I still love the world this author has created and will definitely need to read the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment

Minor: Bullying

dale_in_va's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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So exciting!  Definitely hooked. 

Trigger Warnings:  Very adult; spicy romance; violence; torture; death... but all in service to the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, Death of parent, War

rosyquill_bh's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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honestly the rating is for the last 100 pages or so

this book really fleshed out the lore of the world. It was a bit confusing at times, I had to re go over some things to really understand what was happening but I ended the book excited for the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent

celestihel's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War

kpham16's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Violence

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, War

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury

littleblueecho's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence

comeherecupcake's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I enjoyed this almost as much as Fourth Wing! There were some parts that were a little bit slow, but I actually cried at the end of this book. Curious to see where the story will take us next!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent

daza1's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I would give this book 5 stars if it weren't for how long it is. 
A lot of things happened, and it felt like nothing happened at the same time. If this book were a normal 500 pages, it would give us a better experience because the story is good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Blood, Death of parent

christyvieras's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

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An even more gripping book from fourth wing. I cant seem to put this book down when I started listening to it. The story flows well with tension sprinkled at the right places with an exciting pace. I cant wait to continue to the third book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

emily117's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail