Reviews tagging 'Death'

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

236 reviews

timbsy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Genocide, Slavery, Blood, and Vomit

_charliesbooks_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit

annamary54's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.75

i absolutely LOVED like chap 40ish to the end! the rest was very boring for me.

i really tried to care about Manon, and i had moments where i would get into the whole wyvern story. i know in the next books i’ll find out why her story is so important, but the fact that we’re just now following some rando witch is hard to grasp. i also thought the story line with dorian and sorscha was very forced. did i cry still? yes. it felt like she was just added to create character development for dorian. maybe if we were introduced to her way earlier in the story, like when they were getting healed in the past. or maybe even waited until next book to kill her, cause her development felt very rushed in the last few chapters she was in.

i did laugh and cry, and do my “i’m enjoying this” move where i set down the book and kinda have to talk to myself about whatever is emotionally hitting me.

the killing of all the slaves really got me. usually in books i don’t cry unless it’s about deaths of specific characters, but this was horrific. it’s also maybe me reading it with the timing of Palestine being in the news constantly that really got me emotional. thinking about something that horrific and realizing it’s literally happening to mostly children in real life. oof.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and War

Minor: Incest, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Alcohol

saralynn95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

absolutely a masterpiece, probably my favorite work from SJM and that’s really saying something

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Murder

Moderate: Death

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Sexual harassment

iloponis's review against another edition

4.5

i cried 3 times reading this book. i have nothing meaningful to say bc i need to start the next book this very moment goodbye

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Slavery

emmerylynn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This one was a bit slower than previous books, but the character development was *chefs kiss*. As per usual, SJM’s last 150 pages are a roller coaster of anxiety and intensity! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Grief, and War

firehearttt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Death of parent, and War

knitmonstera's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

There is a lot of improvement in this book compared to the rest of the series so far! Less telling, more showing, less chatting, more action. I was really not prepared for the ending and it was a little sad. There’s a lot of killing, you’d think that there’s a problem with that? Like, supply issues or angry peasants? It’s not really addressed. I’m excited for the next one! (But not excited Rowan isn’t going to be in it also it’s kinda weird he’s low key mated with a 19yo) 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

Clearly made up animals are severely beaten/tortured, BUT, there is redemption for the animals.

im_eebee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

Almost perfect. I just felt like some of the POV’s just made it drag horribly. But overall my favorite book in the series by far

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury