Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Ember Queen by Laura Sebastian

10 reviews

emmmysue's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.25

Character development could use some work. Theo is a bit too much of a Mary Sue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Suicide, Violence, and Slavery

sweetchocolatez's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Grief, Murder, Death, Mental illness, Slavery, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Blood, Alcohol, Torture, Death of parent, and Colonisation

prunechips's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Confinement, Murder, Slavery, and War

Minor: Death of parent

tiana_king'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? It's complicated

4.75

I enjoyed this series but I didn’t feel moved to write a review until this book. Oh my god was it an emotional roller coaster. It rivaled ATLA in addressing treating your enemies as badly as they’ve treated you only spins the cycle on, anybody on either side is capable of being good or bad, and the worst of wars don’t have to end in grand duels to the death. I did not expect the author to put Theo through even MORE but I was wrong 😭 A great ending to a good series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Gore, Grief, Torture, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Child death, Genocide, and Suicide

Minor: Rape

m_r3ads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, War, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

agustdefault's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

im gonna miss these characters </3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Death, War, Violence, Torture, and Slavery

navibo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Violence, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Blood, Colonisation, Slavery, and Grief

kassidyreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Colonisation, Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Slavery

queer_bookwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

3.5

 3.5 ⭐ CW: violence, torture, slavery, descriptions of blood and gore, rape mention, suicide, brief sexual situation

Ember Queen by Laura Sebastian is the last book in the Ash Princess series. Honestly, this book fell a little bit flat for me, and felt a bit predictable.

We pick up with Theo existing the Fire Mine, and it turns out it amplified her fire powers. She's stronger than the fire Guardians, but remembers nothing from the mine. Over time pieces of it come back to her, and she realizes she must have passed tests of some sort.

We still have a bit of a love triangle, but luckily for everyone's sake, Blaise and Theo realize they love each other, just not romantically. Speaking of which, Artemisia is definitely aspec, Aromantic at the very least, but she does get a little bit of sapphic action (alloaro maybe?). I loved Heron and Erik's relationship in this one, I'm a sucker for banter.

Cress is straight up crazy in this book, now that she's been scarred by the Encatrio. Her fire power seems to be stronger, but more unstable than Theo's. She is now trying to recruit other women to take the Encatrio to see if any survive to join her in taking down the patriarchy. Although Cress's goal of dismantling the patriarchy is understandable, she goes about it in ways only an oppressor can think to do it. I found Cress to be a commentary on "White feminism" or selective feminism.

I felt like the plot of this book was very predictable, and I felt there were only a couple of scenes that were somewhat exciting. I just expected more bang for the last book of a trilogy. It was nice reading a series where the oppressed actually get the justice they have been fighting for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Violence, Slavery, Blood, and Suicide

Minor: Rape and Sexual content

scarlettskyes's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape