Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Een licht in de vlam by Jennifer L. Armentrout

31 reviews

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

symabee's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

3.75

I always feel so conflicted about rating the books in this series. The writing is average and repetitive, but the overarching plot is intriguing enough to always keep me coming back for more. If there's one thing JLA is good at, it's a cliffhanger that insures you'll be reading the next book. At this point I'm in it for the long haul. 

I'll start with what I liked about this installment in the FBAA/ASITE series:

- Nyktos and Sera are the embodiment of enemies to lovers, and you just can't beat that. 
- Slowly piecing together the connections between the past and present is really satisfying.
- The spice is 🔥
- Plenty of conflict and character development 
- Sera is unambiguously plus-sized and still badass
 
What I didn't like:
- The use of modern words and phrases is starting to get annoying. It pulls me out of the story and disrupts the flow. One character actually said "I nope'd out of the chamber" 🤦🏻‍♀️
- There are so many side characters (primals, gods, godlings, etc) That I honestly can't keep track of who is who, their titles, and what they look like. People would die, and instead of being upset I thought "who was that again?"
- SO REPETITIVE. Things I'm tired of hearing:
•I don't know why but her use of the word 'clamped' got on my nerves (it's used 16 times in the book) if I heard "my mouth clamped shut" or "pressure clamped my chest" one more time I was going to lose it.
•"Are you reading my emotions?" IT'S OBVIOUS NYKTOS IS READING YOUR EMOTIONS SERA, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK EVERY FIVE MINUTES. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Murder, and War

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Sexual assault and Suicidal thoughts

moonpotter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Suicide attempt, and Murder

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

Can we get the next books now? Please? Cause I am NOT OKAY. Is this the part where she goes into stasis? Or does that happen in the next book? Now I want to reread FBAA damn it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, and Classism

opheliaslittlelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

midnacine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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

No. No, it can't fucking stop there. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? And we have HOW LONG until A Fire in the Flesh?? This is not fair. That's it, I'm gonna commit murder.*

*for legal reasons, this is a joke

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

jinrui's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Suicide attempt, and War

steffandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

5.0

I got so many thought on this, I don’t think I can put them all into words… I just know, I knew it before as well, that this series is even better than FBAA and will be one of my all time favorites of my life to come. 
Don’t get me wrong, FBAA is astonishing, but I happen to enjoy this series even more.
I LOVE Nyktos, Sera, Saion, Ector 🥺 Aios, Bele, Rhahar, Rhain. And the Draken!! Nektas, Reaver and Jadis 🥺 they have my heart, all of them.
The world building was fantastic in this book, the character development… oh Sera and Nyktos are everything. I want to claw my way into this book and this world and protect them with everything I have.
The prophecies, the gods, the betrayals, the fighting, surviving, just everything!
Honestly, in the beginning, I thought I finally understood the prophecy, after reading TWOTQ and then rereading it in this book, I thought I knew what was going on, but then the ending happened. My mind is blown how Jennifer came up with all this. How? Just how?
I knew something was about to happen when the ending neared but I wasn’t prepared for that… left me reeling and I cannot wait for book three!!
The spicy scenes 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 Daddy Nyktos knows what he does although he says he doesn’t. Still, all of them felt bigger, you know because of Sera‘s feelings being described to the reader and while I can acknowledge that you would refer to some scenes as just f***, I don’t think they were. They were always bigger. Pleasure for the sake of pleasure my ass, just like Sera realized 😏
Can’t wait for Ash to wreak havoc in the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming

potatoreader26's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Vomit, and Death of parent

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content