Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

666 reviews

georgiaisreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Slow first half of the story - but paced amped up in the second half ! Can’t wait for the next book!

What a cliffhanger!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Torture, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent and Kidnapping

sanas_sanctuary's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, War, Death of parent, Blood, Chronic illness, Torture, Death, and Cursing

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Body shaming, Genocide, Medical content, Death, Abandonment, Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Classism, War, Chronic illness, Grief, Violence, Bullying, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Vomit, Xenophobia, Murder, Torture, Medical trauma, Ableism, Animal death, and Gaslighting

meguniqueuser's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book took me 4 months to finish. I enjoyed reading it while I was actively reading, but when I put it down it was hard to pick it back up again. And it is quite long. 

It often annoyed me that the same tropes were used from the first book or just repeated in this book, especially the bullying and the war college leadership being idiotic, obstinate adults. 

The leadership are often stupid and stubborn with little reason given. For one, many of them bully Violet just because they want to and hate her. Or the silly college rules that let the cadets fight each other and generates animosity between them. 

I often lost the urge to read because of the bully tropes that Yarros insists on using. It seems to be the only way she knows how to create conflict in the plot; with schoolyard bullies. It happened in the first book, and when one was taken care of in this book they were immediately replaced with another bully. It’s not a super enjoyable reading experience for me, and it’s annoying that these bullies are so over the top. 

Also I am really upset about a certain bully character being present. There was literally no reason for leadership to have brought back this person. They didn’t have any information, they didn’t provide any strategic support; Yarros just brought them back to shock readers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual content, and Violence

lorraine19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

I put this on par with the first book. Definitely more heavy on the trigger warnings. There are some absolutely brutal scenes that make deaths from the first book seem tame. Don't take that warning in the beginning of the book lightly. That being said, this book plays on all the emotions and is just wonderfully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, War, Sexual content, Cursing, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Violence, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Classism, Drug use, Vomit, and Alcohol

bethann_coleates's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Gore, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, War, Grief, Confinement, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

smcrain's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Torture, Death, and War

spaghettii'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Gore, Kidnapping, Blood, Drug use, Genocide, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, War, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

greentayshot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

wow wow wow WOWWWW SO GOOD!!!!!!! when i finished fourth wing i had some doubts on how the second book would go, but i really loved the pacing

and how half the book is at basgiath w violet playing spy / navigating the new dangers and then half the book is after they stop pretending and fully leave navarre and go to aretia! it was the best of both worlds, even if the first half of the book was hard to get thru jus bc of of varrish’s BULLSHIT he should’ve SUFFERED MORE!! literally my only complaint w the book is that he got a quick death 😤

so much happened in this book i feel like a different person than i was when i started it, so many crazy twists and reveals but also very fun bc a lot of my theories came true, even stuff i had been sus of since book 1, so many amazing payoffs!!

i never expected i would cry over

general sorrengail’s death, in fact at times i was begging for her to die bc she pissed me off but DAMNNN!!! i totally thought she was sacrificing sloane so i was already crying, but then the siblings’ reactions and seeing them all affected by the grief differently BROKE ME!!! GOD!!!

 

i have so many theories about

violets second signet

and so many questions about

andarna’s species and why she hatched for violet AND what the hell the fuckin venin want with violet and xaden!!

so i will be going absolutely CRAZYYYYYY until january!!! onyx storm cannot come fast enough!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Violence, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Grief

foresturken's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Physical abuse, and Sexual content