Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout

3 reviews

glddstwmn's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Like if Rae Dunn wrote Twilight.

I really wanted to like this, I enjoyed the first one and was excited to see where this led, the story itself us interesting enough but good lord, the characters have become INSUFFERABLE. 

Poppy is such a pick-me, all of their personalities (Poppy/Cas/Keiran) fell flat, they were all written in the same tone. Keiran was particularly annoying, I wanted to like him but it was the same conversation over and over and it was CRINGE af anytime he interacted with Poppy. 
This is a direct quote (no spoilers but I will put in a spoiler tag anyways)

“That’s an incredibly random question.”

It was. “I’m beginning to realize I’m an incredibly random person.”

This type of interaction of Poppy desperately trying to be qUiRkY and not-like-other-girls™️ was painful. She reminds me of Boxxy. 

Also, Malik's name was spelled both with c and a k, interchangeably throughout and I found the way that the dialogue was written made it unclear of who was speaking. 

Honestly, not sure if I will continue this series and if I do, I will DNF immediately if literally ANYONE mentions how many questions Poppy asks (is that not how conversation works??) Keiran and Cas are starting to give me the ick, and give off "hewwo pwincess" *tips fedora* type vibes and I was cringing hard in the annotations the entire time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic relationship, War, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Torture, Slavery, and Sexism

Minor: Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Rape

dubious consent

ava34_1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and War

Minor: Abandonment

kellicat94's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Pregnancy