Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

57 reviews

peachmoni's review

3.25

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Blood

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

ashliebysmashliereads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War

anniestar's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first 2/3 of the story was very slow and made it difficult to engage with the story. The ending was good and helped this become a story I’d want to see continued.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, War

jesshaleth's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The audiobook was great, Prentice Onayemi read it infinitely better than I could have in my head, he created an atmosphere I couldn't have replicated. Which is not always the case, quite often I just kind of tolerate the narrator. Book was pretty good too, great magic system and world building, good revenge plot, characters were kind of messed up individuals but I was fond of quite a few of them by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

raaanch's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Really good pace, I was never bored. It ends kind of abruptly but was still good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

nicolehoyme's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Murder

ayoung720's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One of the best, most-refreshingly unique fantasy stories that I've read in a long time. The Rage of Dragons is a fast-paced story that still manages to build out a well-developed world, really cool magic/power system, and characters who grip your attention with every move they make. While I am a huge fan of slow-burn fantasy world building a la Brandon Sanderson, the pacing of this story kept me hooked from beginning to end, reminding me a lot of another favorite author, John Gwynne. Can't wait to start book two! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Slavery, Torture

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury

precy's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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There is so much to say about this book, but the main thing is if you like epic action adventure books (and high fantasy): READ THIS BOOK! It takes fantasy readers out of Europe based mythology and bring us to African based mythology in a such immersive way! The books present us a complex society with a rigid caste system, a wonderful and so interesting magic system (each time the book explained how the magic of this world works, I was 100% there, and fascinated), there are a lot of character development, and what I loved is that the magic is there, but it’s only used when needed, what grounds the story in a more relatable world.

The things that for me were an “issue” was the action part. I got why it says is a mix of GOT and Gladiator. As I’m not much for battles, some time I was like “I don’t wanna read about fights anymore” but then something interesting happens! 

Let’s talk about the main character: be prepared for a love and hate relationship! The character has its reasons, but many times I was like “stop being stupid!” But I couldn’t stop cheering for him! 

The writing: FAST PASSED! Sometimes I had to remember to breathe while I was reading! Well constructed dialogues, necessary descriptions, but not too much to get bored, I got lost sometimes in the action parts, but nothing that was terrible for my reading experience.

I’ll for sure read book 2, I need to know what will happen …

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Rape

matthewedward's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

missmali's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content