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blacksphinx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
1.5
I literally only finished this due to a reading challenge. The back 40% was better than the first 60%, but I cannot get over how bad it was.
Graphic: Physical abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Gore, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Vomit, Kidnapping, Blood, Grief, Medical content, Xenophobia, and Colonisation
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death of parent
TW eye injuryquietlyfierce's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Violence, Gore, Body horror, and Death
donatio's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
I read the German translation and I'm still not quite sure if the translation was shitty or the English original or just both.
I couldn't bond with the prota, Vhalla, because... I don't know, she wouldn't be someone I wanted to be friends with and seemed very indecisive and unaware of her surroundings,
I feel like many aspects that would have given the book depth were cast aside or placed in scenes where they didn't belong. I would have liked to see more of Vhalla's relationship with her friends and would have liked to learn more about the magic and see what it can do.
The plot wasn't always predictable but had a lot of smaller inconsistencies which added up. One moment he's angry and then he's not?
But I believe a better choice of words could have compensated at least some of these things. What did Stephen King say? The road to hell is paved with adverbs? There has never been a book in which I felt this more. I cringed really hard at some points in the book.
Graphic: Blood, Cultural appropriation, Body shaming, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Violence
ednam0dewannabe's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: War, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content
Minor: Colonisation, Death of parent, and Slavery
delvie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Violence and Police brutality
Moderate: Death and Gore
Minor: Medical content