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flogreant's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content
lesbianbooksrgr8's review
- 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
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Torture, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Blood, and Kidnapping
there is a war in it so indefinitely there will be goremothman19's review
- 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
Graphic: Death and Violence
Moderate: Child death, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent
caseythereader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
- I also love a prickly heroine, which Ayla is (and then some). Following her struggle to square her beliefs with her reality was wonderful.
- There's also some excellent palace intrigue amid all the sapphic longing. This is really not one to be missed!
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
monilib's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, and Violence
flopsiful's review
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Sexual content
ionka's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Minor: Violence
jnelly14's review
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Violence
lilacsophie's review
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Sexual content and Grief
lesty_gibbs's review
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my g o d
I cannot praise this book enough. The entire fantasy world is just so beautifully and intricately explored, it's so creative and unique I just loved every detail of. The characters are amazing too, you couldn't help but get attached to practically everyone when you were introduced to them, if only because of how the main characters cared for them. I loved how the story turned the classic "human's subjugate autos" trope and completely flipped it over it's head, it was such a refreshing take. Crier and Alya's lives (beyond the romance, although that was amazing too), just intertwine and connect in so many different ways, i's pretty beautiful. I'm reading the final book in the duopoly immediately. I'm so glad it's out.
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Grief
War Themes, Rats (a... lot... but only in one section then never again), Abandonment themes