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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-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
I loved this book and the story was compelling. The world is hauntingly familiar and futuristic/dystopian at the same time.
adventurous
challenging
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:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
This book bounces around a lot and I think because I did the audio I got a bit confused. But it did work out and everything made sense by the end. I liked this book the idea of it reminds me of pacific rim meets the 100. It’s very interesting how everything comes about and the twists things take.
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just like Synali, this book redeemed itself. Kind of a rough start, but ended up being a solid read. I ended up being really into it by about 50-60% into the book. I enjoyed the world that the writer created.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I started off really enjoying the story, but there were some unexpected gaps that seemed to pull us away from the plot line mostly so that there could be more book. I enjoyed how the authority of the gods was questioned and challenged by other gods.
I don’t understand all the rants about this book. Yes, it was definitely more sci-fi than I expected with a label of romantasy, but there WAS romance and there WAS fantasy.
I found the premise to be unique and the writing style to be likable. I empathized with the FMC and found myself also empathizing with her stead.
It was unclear for a while what a stead was, and I was totally taken aback by the fact that her stead, Heavenbreaker turned out to be “female” - if an anthropomorphic being can be gendered.
I am a fool for imagery, and it did lack somewhat in that department, but that didn’t prevent movement of the story or the action. This book was most definitely not predictable; there were twists at every turn.
I found it identifiable with all of the modern hubbub over AI.
Altogether, I wish it had been labeled properly so that it would be getting reviews from the right crowd, and I would most definitely recommend this book for lovers of science-fi. If you love a combo of sci-fi and fantasy with a very light dusting of romance, even better.
There were definitely unanswered questions and the book landed on a cliffhanger. I hope against hopes that she plans on releasing a second book. (Even though I’ve read that she’s notorious for abandoning series after the first book).
I found the premise to be unique and the writing style to be likable. I empathized with the FMC and found myself also empathizing with her stead.
It was unclear for a while what a stead was, and I was totally taken aback by the fact that her stead, Heavenbreaker turned out to be “female” - if an anthropomorphic being can be gendered.
I am a fool for imagery, and it did lack somewhat in that department, but that didn’t prevent movement of the story or the action. This book was most definitely not predictable; there were twists at every turn.
I found it identifiable with all of the modern hubbub over AI.
Altogether, I wish it had been labeled properly so that it would be getting reviews from the right crowd, and I would most definitely recommend this book for lovers of science-fi. If you love a combo of sci-fi and fantasy with a very light dusting of romance, even better.
There were definitely unanswered questions and the book landed on a cliffhanger. I hope against hopes that she plans on releasing a second book. (Even though I’ve read that she’s notorious for abandoning series after the first book).
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
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:
No
What you do isn't always the bravest thing. Rather, what you endure is actually the bravest thing.
Synali has decided that the duke of the powerful House Hauteclare will be the first to die. And it will be with her dagger in his back.
He never saw it coming. He never anticipated that the bastard daughter who had meant to die with her mother – on his very order. He would have been better off leaving them with the rest of the Station's starving, the commoner rubbish.
Now there is absolutely nothing left. There's just this icy-white rage and a need to make House Hauteclare pay the ultimate price. And that means every damn one of them has to pay.
And if that means Synali has to face riding Heavenbreaker – one of the few enormous machines that are left over from the War – and jousting against all of the fiercest nobles in the system.
And with each win that Synali puts under her belt, it means that another one of her enemies has died. And here, in the cold terror of space, Synali finds that she moves as one with the machine, both intent on destroying each adversary–even if it happens to be someone that she cares about. Even if it is someone that she is falling for.
Only Synali finds that she's no longer alone, not anymore.
Because within the machine there's something with Synali. And it's something horrifying. Something....so much more.
And Synali knows that it's not going to be stopped.
Tropes: Revenge Story, Female Revenge, Slow Burn Romance, MC Who Kills People, Rivals To Lovers, Middle-Aged Man “Adopts” Teen Girl, and Fighting Robots.
Heaven Breaker is the 1st book in the Heavenbreaker series by Sara Wolf. I took my time in getting into this book as I have a rather extensive TBR plus all the ARCs that I am reading. And the biggest complaint that I kept hearing about it was that everyone was mad that this was a “slow burn” only they would say that in the worst way possible. And I think this is a big reason why authors don't give us a great slow burn romance and let the characters develop a friendship first before they get into a relationship and they are never based on a real genuine attraction.
I love Synali our FMC in Heaven Breaker. She is a woman who is focused on getting revenge. She's just taken the life of her own father, this prominent duke. Of course, this is after he took the life of her mother Synali learned that her father's entire house had played a part in the death of her mother. So, Synali decides to team up with this wayward prince so she can kill each and every one of them.
Heaven Breaker is kind of made up of part Iron Widow, a bit Count of Monte Cristo, and a dash of Red Rising added in. Iron Widow is very surface level inclusion with its loose dialogue, Heaven Breaker itself really puts its own significance and a bigger emphasis on ensuring that Sara Wolf builds a complete world with mature well well-rounded characters that are fully developed. If you read Iron Widow and struggled with how immature the characters were and you wanted something more mature and written for a more adult audience then I can say that Heaven Breaker is a great replacement.
I normally don't read a lot of science fiction. But, I do enjoy it once in a while, and this is, or at least is marketed as a science fiction New Adult, but with the adult characters and their maturity, I think this is a great book for adults as well. What really surprised me about this science fiction book is how much depth the science fiction elements got as normally these elements just get the window dressing rather than the author really showing just how much they care about all these smaller story elements. I do have to warn you that you will run into some technical talk in this book, so be ready for that.
I was a little bit frustrated with the way that this book was published. This book is published under a house that publishes a lot of romantasy. Yes, it got beautiful sprayed edges that I love but with the house it falls under, it was assumed that this book was going to be a romantasy itself. So I was left rather bemused and confused as the primary plot of the story was the focus of the book over the romance. This is a fault of me, once I got passed the surprise that the book was focused on the plot, I loved it and it was refreshing to read something not focused on insta-love and obsession. I love slow burn romances and I do think that we need more books like this.
This book is so refreshing. I love the relationships that Synali develops with her friends outside of her love interest. And she puts care and time into those relationships not just into building her relationship with her love interest. We get the clear romance set up and I love the fun that is had while it is moving slowly.
I adore the fact that Rax isn't always obsessing over Synali and she isn't always obsessing over him and how hot he is. Yes, we get some of the lust that is supposed to be there. Synali and Rax's romance remains a slow burn and Sara gives this relationship all the time in the world to fully develop at its own time. It does complicate matters that Rax is marrying into the very house that Synali is trying to destroy and she is going to have to beat his very butt in the robot fighting contest, even if she doesn't want to hurt him.
Synali is bound and determined to wipe out her entire family, so she really doesn't have the time to think about boys or obsess about Rax. I do love romance's but at the same time I get tired of always having all these modern romance tropes that we have constantly being in every romantasy that we read – even though I will read each and every one of them without care – and I am so happy and thankful that Heaven Breaker doesn't follow any of those rules.
Synali is single-minded about her quest. But, her when we get her first-person POV it's honestly so beautiful. Sara gives us this solid prose and Synali's inner monologue benefits so much from Sara's talents. Synali is at times, your typical “pissed off woman” FMC, but at the same time, I found her to be a fun and worthy main character. And the fact that Sara has a willingness to kill off her characters, as revenge/assassin-based killings can at times be seen as “misunderstood”. Especially for women. No, Synali is here for revenge, all for the killing of her entire family, a family she loved and cared for. And I can understand it.
Sara truly made this book shine, not through Rax or Synali. No this book truly shines through all the secondary characters. They all have their own moments when they get to step up to shine and they always get to be their own people. Each and every secondary character from the mentor, the rival, to Rax Synali's love interest, they are all fully developed and fleshed out human beings with a story of their own. And it is in their stories that connect them to the main characters so deeply.
I love that we get some shorter POV chaters from other characters that draw you in, help you to connect with them as well, and allow you to get to know them even better. One of the things that I did come to realize in reading this book is that all of the characters in one way or another are morally grey. We really don't have that pure FMC or MMC.
There are those moments where this book can drift from the new adult to ya territory and that kind of lost me at times. But, I did enjoy this book and I felt like it set the stage for what new adult books should look like and what slow burn romance should truly be, and overall this was just a refreshing romance to read.
I highly recommend this book as it is well written with well-defined and well-developed characters. This book sets a new standard for not only new adult books but also for slow-burn romance as well. I can't wait to read the next book Hellrunner when it is released.
Sara Wolf has done an amazing job with this book and I look forward to reading more of her books in the future. She has a bright future in the literary world ahead of her.
Synali has decided that the duke of the powerful House Hauteclare will be the first to die. And it will be with her dagger in his back.
He never saw it coming. He never anticipated that the bastard daughter who had meant to die with her mother – on his very order. He would have been better off leaving them with the rest of the Station's starving, the commoner rubbish.
Now there is absolutely nothing left. There's just this icy-white rage and a need to make House Hauteclare pay the ultimate price. And that means every damn one of them has to pay.
And if that means Synali has to face riding Heavenbreaker – one of the few enormous machines that are left over from the War – and jousting against all of the fiercest nobles in the system.
And with each win that Synali puts under her belt, it means that another one of her enemies has died. And here, in the cold terror of space, Synali finds that she moves as one with the machine, both intent on destroying each adversary–even if it happens to be someone that she cares about. Even if it is someone that she is falling for.
Only Synali finds that she's no longer alone, not anymore.
Because within the machine there's something with Synali. And it's something horrifying. Something....so much more.
And Synali knows that it's not going to be stopped.
Tropes: Revenge Story, Female Revenge, Slow Burn Romance, MC Who Kills People, Rivals To Lovers, Middle-Aged Man “Adopts” Teen Girl, and Fighting Robots.
Heaven Breaker is the 1st book in the Heavenbreaker series by Sara Wolf. I took my time in getting into this book as I have a rather extensive TBR plus all the ARCs that I am reading. And the biggest complaint that I kept hearing about it was that everyone was mad that this was a “slow burn” only they would say that in the worst way possible. And I think this is a big reason why authors don't give us a great slow burn romance and let the characters develop a friendship first before they get into a relationship and they are never based on a real genuine attraction.
I love Synali our FMC in Heaven Breaker. She is a woman who is focused on getting revenge. She's just taken the life of her own father, this prominent duke. Of course, this is after he took the life of her mother Synali learned that her father's entire house had played a part in the death of her mother. So, Synali decides to team up with this wayward prince so she can kill each and every one of them.
Heaven Breaker is kind of made up of part Iron Widow, a bit Count of Monte Cristo, and a dash of Red Rising added in. Iron Widow is very surface level inclusion with its loose dialogue, Heaven Breaker itself really puts its own significance and a bigger emphasis on ensuring that Sara Wolf builds a complete world with mature well well-rounded characters that are fully developed. If you read Iron Widow and struggled with how immature the characters were and you wanted something more mature and written for a more adult audience then I can say that Heaven Breaker is a great replacement.
I normally don't read a lot of science fiction. But, I do enjoy it once in a while, and this is, or at least is marketed as a science fiction New Adult, but with the adult characters and their maturity, I think this is a great book for adults as well. What really surprised me about this science fiction book is how much depth the science fiction elements got as normally these elements just get the window dressing rather than the author really showing just how much they care about all these smaller story elements. I do have to warn you that you will run into some technical talk in this book, so be ready for that.
I was a little bit frustrated with the way that this book was published. This book is published under a house that publishes a lot of romantasy. Yes, it got beautiful sprayed edges that I love but with the house it falls under, it was assumed that this book was going to be a romantasy itself. So I was left rather bemused and confused as the primary plot of the story was the focus of the book over the romance. This is a fault of me, once I got passed the surprise that the book was focused on the plot, I loved it and it was refreshing to read something not focused on insta-love and obsession. I love slow burn romances and I do think that we need more books like this.
This book is so refreshing. I love the relationships that Synali develops with her friends outside of her love interest. And she puts care and time into those relationships not just into building her relationship with her love interest. We get the clear romance set up and I love the fun that is had while it is moving slowly.
I adore the fact that Rax isn't always obsessing over Synali and she isn't always obsessing over him and how hot he is. Yes, we get some of the lust that is supposed to be there. Synali and Rax's romance remains a slow burn and Sara gives this relationship all the time in the world to fully develop at its own time. It does complicate matters that Rax is marrying into the very house that Synali is trying to destroy and she is going to have to beat his very butt in the robot fighting contest, even if she doesn't want to hurt him.
Synali is bound and determined to wipe out her entire family, so she really doesn't have the time to think about boys or obsess about Rax. I do love romance's but at the same time I get tired of always having all these modern romance tropes that we have constantly being in every romantasy that we read – even though I will read each and every one of them without care – and I am so happy and thankful that Heaven Breaker doesn't follow any of those rules.
Synali is single-minded about her quest. But, her when we get her first-person POV it's honestly so beautiful. Sara gives us this solid prose and Synali's inner monologue benefits so much from Sara's talents. Synali is at times, your typical “pissed off woman” FMC, but at the same time, I found her to be a fun and worthy main character. And the fact that Sara has a willingness to kill off her characters, as revenge/assassin-based killings can at times be seen as “misunderstood”. Especially for women. No, Synali is here for revenge, all for the killing of her entire family, a family she loved and cared for. And I can understand it.
Sara truly made this book shine, not through Rax or Synali. No this book truly shines through all the secondary characters. They all have their own moments when they get to step up to shine and they always get to be their own people. Each and every secondary character from the mentor, the rival, to Rax Synali's love interest, they are all fully developed and fleshed out human beings with a story of their own. And it is in their stories that connect them to the main characters so deeply.
I love that we get some shorter POV chaters from other characters that draw you in, help you to connect with them as well, and allow you to get to know them even better. One of the things that I did come to realize in reading this book is that all of the characters in one way or another are morally grey. We really don't have that pure FMC or MMC.
There are those moments where this book can drift from the new adult to ya territory and that kind of lost me at times. But, I did enjoy this book and I felt like it set the stage for what new adult books should look like and what slow burn romance should truly be, and overall this was just a refreshing romance to read.
I highly recommend this book as it is well written with well-defined and well-developed characters. This book sets a new standard for not only new adult books but also for slow-burn romance as well. I can't wait to read the next book Hellrunner when it is released.
Sara Wolf has done an amazing job with this book and I look forward to reading more of her books in the future. She has a bright future in the literary world ahead of her.