Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

99 reviews

michireading's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Classism, Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Ableism, Blood, Cursing, Kidnapping, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and War

ninahuynh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

What a war! All the action and fighting and planning. I like how Yarros utilizes the dragons more in this book, especially Andarna (more frequent remarks that I found so funny and at the end). I don't see the romance as wanting to replicate the first book. I see it more as a romantic relationship that goes through tests of trusts. I do find it annoying and a bit controlling when Xaden expects Violet to ask him the correct questions in order for him to offer her the information she wants. And some of her remarks about Xaden became repetitive (though this may also be a me-thing, as I find too much mushy-gushy stuff in romance novels to be overbearing and annoying).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Animal death, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Grief, Torture, War, Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

rissaread's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

4.75

the ending 🧍🏼‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content

cozy_gremlin4's review against another edition

Super disappointed. Absolutely no more plot, it's messy, immature and focuses too much on the romantic interest for me. The random sex scene pull me out of the story (I skip them) and the pace is super slow for very little actual plot happening. I couldn't push myself to finish it; it was a significant downfall from the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Hate crime, Violence, Confinement, Torture, Misogyny, Physical abuse, War, Blood, Classism, Death, Murder, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders

potalian's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Torture, Sexual content, Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Murder, Confinement, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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? No

5.0

Absolutely mind blowing sequel! I loved seeing more of the character development and story progression! This book had me hooked from the start, just like Fourth Wing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

2.5

I was excited to read this book after the cliffhanger of the first one. I was disappointed how the protagonist seemed to have turned into a bratty, immature teenager compared to the intelligent and compassionate character I came to know and love in the first book.
The book was repetitive at times overexplaining goings-on that the reader was already aware of. Stating that Andarna is a teenager and thus rebellious behavior is to be expected after every other sentence she says was annoying to me.
Writting a fantasy book of this magnitude in such a short amount of time after publishing book number one is quite a feat. The book would have benefitted from more editing in my opinion. But I did like the overall storyline and intrigue and hope the author will take more time for book number three

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, War, Kidnapping, Torture, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

allydoessomereading's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.25

Was pretty slow and painful having to listen to the 2 main characters argue for majority of the book. I wish there was more character development and better world building. In saying that, I still cried at the end and really enjoy when the book is went into fun, adventurous plot lines. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, War, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

What. Even. I have to wait until DECEMBER? I really can’t. The ending of this book is such a cliffhanger and a twist I was not anticipating. I enjoyed this book, but felt some of it could’ve been condensed. I also felt that some of the magic wasn’t explained as well as I would’ve liked, but all in all, this was a good part 2. The characters are embedded in my heart now, and I hope they all have a happy ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Blood, War, Drug use, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Torture, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Violence, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Vomit, Murder, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gore, and Gaslighting

thebelovedreadingnook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Murder, War, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Colonisation, Ableism, and Emotional abuse