Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

42 reviews

biancas_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

In this installment, I loved Helene's storyline the most. Her character developed so much in comparison to the first book. Besides that, it just was the most interesting and suspenseful. 
Elias' storyline, however, I didn't like at all. I just couldn't find myself being invested in it.

The whole book I was waiting for them to figure out a way for Elias to not be the Soul Catcher. They didn't but I really freaking hope that they will in the next book. I'm not mentally prepared for anything else.

Therefore, I nocked 0.25 points off my rating.

Other than that, I again was a huge fan of Tahir's writing style and I loved that she took the conflict that's been building up a notch further. I can't wait to see how everything will be resolved in the next - and last - book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Torture, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery

mypatronusisajedi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Slavery, Torture, Blood, and Death of parent

kilic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

chlomonte's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

my favourite book so far of the ember quartet. helene's chapters are my favourite to read n i loved all of the politicking and war, unpop opinion but i really don't care for the romantic relationships 😭 i know the yearning was meant to cause me pain but i just preferred the other aspects of the plot. the twist with cook had me gobsmacked good job miss tahir. lots of very emotional moments n i hope to see more of laia & helene bonding in the final book love my main ladies sm. eek such a good dark war torn high fantasy series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and War

coolbeancat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture

jules_reads_books's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

Definitely my fave of the series so far! Full review to come

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death and Gore

Minor: Racism, Rape, and Slavery

shahdhazem's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I've finished this 3 days ago and I have been in shock quite literally. The plot is going in a very complex way and I'm just going insane. There's lots of things that I don't understand and it's just very very intense.

can we please all come to the fact that I haven't even recovered from the shock that cook is the lioness and then she's f*king dead I didn't even get to cry for her just from the overall shock!!

. Laia had a very strong character development she's literally just a very good written heroine. And as always sabaa is literally torturing everyone in the book EVEN THE SIDE CHARACTERS NO ONE SURVIVES HER EVIL!! Lastly I won't even comment on the writing stlyle or plot the whole series is just a masterpiece I can't bring myself to say anything more.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Blood and Pregnancy

theespressoedition's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Truthfully, I don't have much to say about this book. I've really found this entire series to be dragging and while I keep hoping there will be something that hooks me and makes me want to stick around, there isn't. It's really depressing. At the end of every terrible moment, I expect there to be some kind of redemption and there isn't. It just gets worse. I'll be reading the last book to finish out the series, but I can't say I've enjoyed this, which is a huge bummer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

loony_lucy's review

adventurous dark 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

5.0

Stunning third instalment in the an ember in the Ashes quartet. Tahir's writing is brilliant and the way she constructed the changes in the POV’s meant that you could not put this book down. The Roman inspiration shines through and every twist and turn leaves you breathless. The character development and plot development were truly staggering. I cannot wait to pick up the final instalment where I know I will be an emotional wreck. But what's new?! The only slight critique I would have is that I wished the battle scenes were more detailed and drawn out as that would have truly made the tension mount.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

bishopindi's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Slavery, and Death of parent