Reviews tagging 'Child death'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

82 reviews

reasek's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: War and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

GUYS. THIS BOOK. I know I'm like years too late but now, I'm fully obsessed, too.

It is a tad long at times (as is all romantisch) but honestly, waiting for Hawke makes it all worth it 😉

The sexual tension these two have? Off. The. Charts. Like, even when

he's fully betrayed her but then he's bandaging her wounds

and it's just like?? Am I into this now?? Yeah apparently lol

Is the plot life changing? No, but you know what it is: FUN. I was fully out of my Romantasy phase and now I'm ready to jump in again and read about more broody dark-haired bad boys again.

Perfect read to end out the year <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, and Classism

Minor: Gore, Child death, War, and Death of parent

lovenecy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

There were moments where I was able to predict things, like that Hawke was an Atlantian. I also predicted he was the Dark One.  The ascension truth threw me though. Wasn’t expecting that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body shaming, Classism, and Child death

Moderate: Gaslighting, Grief, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

toastyghosty13'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I was suggested this book as a recommendation after reading the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

The first 25%-30% of this book I found quite boring, it took me longer to read this section than the rest of the book. It started to pick up a lot more with

the attempted abduction of the main character Poppy and the murder of one of her personal royal guards, Rylan.

I could not put the book down after this, and read pretty large chunks afterwards, finishing a bulk of the book in 2 days. This is that majority of where the 2.5/5 rather than 4/5 stars comes from. 

My other main criticism of this book, but not as much as the first point is

the romantic relationship between Poppy and Hawke. I found it pretty cringey for some parts, but also love him as a chaotic character of weird morality.

He reminds me of (ACOTAR spoiler)

Rhysand a lot, but if Rhysand was a bit more murdery and psycho I guess?

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I definitely recommend this book for people who liked ACOTAR. I think the overarching conspiracy theories are very engaging once you start to get into it. I will say that a lot of the twists were very easily predictable for me, but YMMV. I think this book was really used to set up a lot for the rest of the series, so just try to get through it if you find parts boring because I have a feeling more exciting things are in the future. I finished the book today, and the ending had a twist I actually was not expecting at all that was left as a cliffhanger. If anything, it made me happy that I can start the next book asap because I am feeling the same type of excitement that I felt when (ACOTAR/ACOMAF spoilers)

Feyre was taken to Velaris

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Bullying, Death of parent, and Torture

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child death

mishshell's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Cannibalism

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.75

Holy shit this was a rollercoaster from start to finish!! I adore Poppy and cant wait to read more of her and her badassness. My old complaint is the age gap between the two of them other than that it was awesome!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Torture, Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, War, Blood, Child death, Classism, Violence, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Death, Genocide, Gore, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

saskiahill's review against another edition

3.75

Interesting story but poorly edited. From bad grammar, to missing words, to incorrect uses of phrases - I was surprised given it's such a popular book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, War, Infertility, and Self harm

carlyjoann's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child death, Death, Blood, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death of parent

tyssiria1069's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Child death

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Gore, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Murder, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Ableism, Sexual assault, Classism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Torture, War, Child abuse, Child death, and Slavery