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adventurous
emotional
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Gore, Grief, Death of parent
adventurous
dark
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
One of the best books I’ve ever read and I absolutely loved it. Age 16+
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death of parent
adventurous
emotional
reflective
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
What an Amazing Book! I thought I would never be able to find a series to fill the void of ACOTAR but this one…. The slow burn, enimies-to-lovers mixed with dragons… what more could you need. So excited to jump into the second one!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, War
adventurous
emotional
funny
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Drug abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship
adventurous
challenging
dark
lighthearted
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Blood, Abandonment
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you need a non-serious read and/or an intro romantasy book, this is a decent place to start. It is a fun, light read (if you aren’t used to the depth of other fantasy books) with a ton of fantasy elements and tropes. However, if you want a better book series to restart your book reading journey, I would recommend the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas or “War of Lost Hearts” by Carissa Broadbent series. I think that this book’s rating is severely inflated from others discovering it on BookTok.
Overall, this book feels like good fan fiction on Watt Pad. The character development is severely lacking. Frankly, it was shocking that the FMC and MMC get together before the book even ended as it seemed like little to no time for the “enemies to lovers” trope to happen. While it was obvious they would get together from the start, I wish there had been a slower burn and more character development before they got together. The lust from the FMC starts almost immediately with almost no build up. The MMC’s nickname for the FMC is cringeworthy and predictable.
The story throws together a bunch of other fantasy/dystopian story lines (ex: Divergent, Game of Thrones, ACOTAR, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, etc.) and many tropes into one book (ex: shadow “daddies,” enemies to lovers, smol girl/big man 🙄, etc.)
The writing is cringeworthy at times…I cannot think of another fantasy book series where a FMC would say she wants to climb the MMC “like a tree” not just once, but twice…
On a more positive note, one aspect of the book I really appreciated was that the FMC had a disability, which is not widely represented in other fantasy novels.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-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
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, War, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-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
I liked it way more than I expected. The pacing was very well done, the first 300 pages got me hooked in, couldn’t stop reading it. There were some annoying elements like being constantly reminded how small and short and petite Violet is. Some people were very well developed, others, who were meant to be quite important, not at all. Like the only thing we know about Dain that he’s a sucker for rules, would never break them but that’s literally the only thing there’s to know. Love interest is the usual tall, dark and mysterious character but I guess we all eat that up every single time. All in all this has thoroughly entertained me, I say strong 4 stars.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content
Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Blood, Vomit
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
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:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Minor: Ableism, Vomit