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The North Wind by Alexandria Warwick

10 reviews

saliwali's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Slavery, Sexual content, Cursing, Murder, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

cozyduck's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence and Death

iamsammie27's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Suicide attempt, Violence, War, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Child death

queenie_ofthe_void's review

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? Yes

2.75

It felt like a mash up of Uprooted and Spinning Silver, both Naomi Novik books. And because I really loved both of those books, it made it hard for me to enjoy this one. Parts of this book didn't even really make sense.

Wren getting the shit beat out of her in the ghost town makes sense, since they hate the king so much. But then less than a few weeks later they go to the mid winter festival. And host a party for them at the Citadel. I would not party with people who almost had me drawn and quartered.

More technically, the timline felt inconsistent like the author couldn't keep track of the days. But I likes Wren, and I liked Boreas, so it kept me going.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Alcohol, Body horror, Grief, Addiction, and War

cassie12_21's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

2.5

I really didn’t like him. She was ok, but I think she could have been more. The smut parts were pretty good, but the plot……

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Murder, Grief, Addiction, War, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

nebulasaurus's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Grief, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

maliap's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

asmaltz3's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.5

Gives me Hunger Games meets Game of Thrones meets Olympus vibes. If you liked Rhapsodic by Laura Thalissa, you'll probably like this. I'm also reading A Court of Thorns and Roses, and the books appear to start similarly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, War, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Torture, Vomit, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, Rape, and Kidnapping

mirf_13's review

adventurous mysterious sad slow-paced

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

1.75

I love this kind of book usually so I was really shocked by how much The North Wind disappointed me. The description ticked all the right boxes for me: beauty and the beast/ hades and persephone retelling, enemies to lovers, fantasy, tropes, gods, and a creative premise. But for the first time in forever I really struggled to finish this book. 

The purple prose was off the charts here, to the point where certain passages were basically unreadable. There was so much unnecessary description it ended up being difficult to actually understand what the author was trying to say.

Overall, not my thing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Violence

black_cat_iiix's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence