Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

7 reviews

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

I love this book and these characters so much. The communication between our main characters is so good. The banter is amazing. World building is woven in so well into the story. The ending is shocking and the story is just so great!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Grief, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, War, Gaslighting, Vomit, and Confinement

Minor: Kidnapping

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, War, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Gore, Sexual content, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Death

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Slavery

howboutjane's review

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? It's complicated

4.5

I'm mad I waited so long to read this book! It was truly amazing and had all the aspects you could hope for in a fantasy romance - morally grey MCs, Epic Battles, Magic, Suspence, twists and a satisfying amount of female rage. A bit of a slow start but when it gets going it does not stop! I hope to never experience in my LIFE the betrayal Dianna experiences in this book 😟...and that ENDING.... 😵. I..AM...SPEECHLESS. 😩🤌🏽

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Torture, Violence, Murder, Death, and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Vomit

radiantgeode's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, Torture, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Rape, War, Cursing, and Blood

stephaniemcuervo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual content, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Confinement, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders

booksalacarte's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

3.0

3⭐️ 2🌶️

Badass/morally grey FMC
Enemies to lovers
Slow burn
Forced proximity
One bed
Quest
Forbidden romance
Fight scenes
Dragons
🏳️‍🌈 rep
Cliffhanger


Seems to be dual POV. The beginning started off with interesting world building and introduced us to the FMC. The magic is interesting. I have to admit that I’m still confused about quite a bit, but I’m thankful that the magic doesn’t look like every other romantasy out there. I think it was a little clogged in its delivery. 

A god with PTSD…Liam/Samkiel a different kind of male main character. I applaud even if his character does feel like Thor after Endgame. He was fully flushed and by far the character holding the book together.

The slowest burn. Goodness gracious. They go from enemies-to-pretty much lovers, but not quite. 

I didn’t enjoy how often things were repeated. Prose and stories told, in full, more than once. I found myself going, “yeah, yeah, yeah… I’ve heard this before.” It was really annoying. Then to just have to go through it again in the other POV. Yikes. The dialogue was also cringeworthy. Some of the general conversations were just not at all realistic in the way character spoke to each other and word choices. 

The nature of Dianna was so immature when she wasn’t fighting. She is supposed to be almost a thousand years old? She acted like her emotional growth stopped in her early 20’s. She was written very YA. I wanted her to fight more so I didn’t have to deal with her immaturity. 

The stakes felt high, until you read the line, “weeks later”… multiple times. Then you start wondering what the hell people are doing for those weeks! Nothing helpful or plot moving. Just twiddling their thumbs? I don’t want to be in the same PoV and suddenly have a plot blackout for weeks!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gore, Death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Grief, and Blood

steffandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

Amber, what have you done 😭 THE ENDING!! I can’t 😭😭 when is book two coming out?
I can’t even imagine how this story is supposed to entail five books overall, Dianna and Liam already went through so much in this book, what else are they supposed to endure? I can’t, I literally can’t…
I love how Liam is such a big teddybear and open with his feelings and so on and I really liked how he and Dianna went from enemies to more. They were literally enemies in the beginning. Both are not heroes in this story. Both already committed atrocities to save those they loved. I liked how Amber was portraying them as not being “good” guys.
The story and world as such is really complex, which took me a moment to get into, but I like reading a book where not everything is explained in the beginning. Gives me that tense feeling, you know.
I need more of Dianna and Liam, like right now. 

Please don’t keep them apart for long in the second book, okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Genocide, War, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent