Reviews tagging 'Blood'

We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal

51 reviews

tinysierra's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Hafsah Faizal said, “here, you can have pain and suffering at every corner.” She took us for a ride with this one. 

Did someone order slow burn?
It’s not my favorite trope personally, but there was no denying it was really well done. 

Faizal writes such strong romantic and platonic bonds between characters. The way she writes about love… Whew. So many quotable moments. Also… casual aromantic representation in fantasy? Yes, please. 

Again, I love all the characters. The zurma. Altair truly is the embodiment of sunshine. I laughed out loud so much at all their banter. 

I think to truly appreciate this book in full, I’ll need to reread it after I’ve processed all that happened. It was good. I’m glad it was a duology instead of a trilogy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, War, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief and Misogyny

aklovekorn's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, War, and Sexism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Child death

maple_dove's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring 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

In my humble opinion, this book did not fall into the pit of sequel in a trilogy/duology syndrome (I forgot what it's called). I'm stuck between rating this 4.75 or 5 stars. I chose the latter.

This book just made me love the characters and the world even more. I binged this book in two days.

There's also aroace rep! It's nice to not have every character to have a romantic love interest. :)

I didn't write any quotes down, however, there are a lot of good quotes in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, War, Violence, Murder, Confinement, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Medical content, and Gore

Minor: Torture and Sexual content

I didn't keep exact track of the content warnings as I did for the previous book so these content warnings might not be entirely accurate.

oceana_bookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

This book… was probably one of the best books I have read. The writing is so beautiful and amazing, every part of it made me want the book last forever. The ending was amazing and I could read this book over and over again.🥹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Sexism, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

cerilouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Death, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

paigeinabook's review against another edition

adventurous reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Addiction, Violence, Sexual content, and Child abuse

tahsintries's review against another edition

emotional

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Blood

bri__'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

The last part of this book was great but I definitely found that alot of the middle was dragged and that caused me to take a week in completing this book. The writing is impeccable and the plot is insanely complex.

I loved Nasir so much throughout this series but I found Zafira to be a very complicated character to deal with due to her tendency to run away from her problems (being her relationship with Nasir). Yes there was some partial enemies to lovers in this duology but he fell in love with her during their time on Sharr so I wouldn't say it was that long a period of time. As stated already I did enjoy the ending, I'm just disappointed we didn't get to see more of the possible dynamic between Altair and Yasmine or the actual effect of magic among the community since we only got to see snippets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Child death and Infertility