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nataliebootlah's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
slow-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
Let me put it this way: this book did not need to be 800 pages. It simply didn’t. But the absolute cliffhanger at the end made it worth getting through all of the fluff.
Bryce and Hunt return…with all the twists, turns, danger, and detective work that they’re known for. And that’s about all I can say without spoiling anything!
If you read it, pleaaasseeee message me so we can discuss everything that happened and the theories of future books. This book had an ungodly amount of information packed into it, no doubt clues of what’s to come next. And now I have to wait who knows how long for the next book to come out.
*dramatic sigh*
🌙
Bryce and Hunt return…with all the twists, turns, danger, and detective work that they’re known for. And that’s about all I can say without spoiling anything!
If you read it, pleaaasseeee message me so we can discuss everything that happened and the theories of future books. This book had an ungodly amount of information packed into it, no doubt clues of what’s to come next. And now I have to wait who knows how long for the next book to come out.
*dramatic sigh*
🌙
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Gore, Sexual content, and War
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
ka_ke's review
adventurous
emotional
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? No
5.0
When I tell you I screamed, I laughed, and I cried you have no choice to believe it. The last line on page 798 made me so excited. I am ready for the next CC book and the next ACOTAR book . The spice is incredible, and I have definitely fallen into Maas destruction once again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Blood, Classism, Violence, Slavery, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Sexual content
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mental illness, and War
jessgreads's review
adventurous
challenging
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
Rating: ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
Title: House of Sky and Breath
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Midgard
Month Read: March 2022
Book Type: Hardcover
Publication:2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 805
TRIGGER WARNING-
War / Death / Sexual Content / Violence /
"Our love is stronger than time, greater than any distance. Our love spans across stars and worlds. I will find you again, I promise."
No Spoiler Summary:
At the beginning of the novel you find Bryce and Hunt recovering from the ending of the last book, and wanting desperately to enter a normal routine, and finally get a chance to live normal lives. A chance to relax, a chance to figure out what's next. The Asteri have not bothered our duo, but the rebels have also not gone away, and it's a matter of time before our leads need to choose a side. Will they stay silent during the obvious oppression happening, or do they fight for what they belive in above all else? This book is a sequel to House of Earth and Blood.
Review:
I'm a huge fan of Sarah J Maas, and the ACOTAR series is one of my favorites, but MY GOD WAS THIS BOOK HORRIBLE. I spent 805 pages alternating between wishing I was reading something else, and wondering why Bloomsbury won't get Sarah an editor that will make her cut 400 pages of absolute uselessness. The amount of walking around, saying the same things, and not advancing the plot at all was insane to me. I had fully decided that I was not going to finish the series, and I'd stop after this novel, and then the end of the book happens and now I feel like I am being held hostage in a world I dislike, characters I dislike, and a plot that is just absolutely awful. I honestly didn't know after slogging through the worldbuilding in book 1 that I'd still have to slog through the SAME WORLDBUILDING in book 2.
If you want Sarah's sexy sex scenes in this book, look somewhere else. The sex was badly written, almost boring, and definitely cheese. If I hear the word 'Alpha-hole' one more time I was going to set my book on fire and throw it out the window. I advise reading maybe the first hundred pages, skipping to about 600, and finishing there. You won't miss very much and you can gather what happens in-between. Mostly thinking about Danika, trying to find a missing rebel, some mind sex between secret agents, and a forced marriage ploy.
In other news, I did like the addition of some new characters, and I did like that we got a lot more supporting cast in this book than in the last one. None of them have the same chemistry as the team in ACOTAR, but maybe in another 3-800 page books we can get there.
I hate writing reviews for books that don't praise them. I've never written a book, and I don't think I'd be very good at it- but I really need a better editor on these books because I felt so similarly with A Court of Silver Flames. Write a good 400-500 page book, I don't need bad 800+ page books. They're so insanely mediocre and I know Sarah can do better because I've read every book she's written to date. Quality over Quantity seems to come in to play a lot with her books lately, and I just wish someone would talk to her. I'm unsure if I'll pick up another book in this series, or if I'll sparknotes it. I do hate that I feel like I will need to because of a twist. It's infuriating.
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"What she wanted was a true heart to love her, to run wild with her through the forest."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Death
Moderate: War, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Drug use, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Genocide, Classism, and Alcohol
Minor: Kidnapping
ritareadstrash's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
This is going to be shocking (heh), but this review is going to upset some people.
Please tread with caution, not only for extremely light spoilers, but also SA trigger warning. This is super edited for the word limit.
I’ll be up front, I didn’t have high hopes going in. I desperately felt the first book needed an editor, and this wrist breaker could’ve been halved. However, I don’t read these books expecting them to alter my life. I am a raccoon, and this is my trash horde.
Right out the gate, we get this prologue that made me uncomfortable, at best. It reads as WWII, historical fiction, set in a concentration camp, but made fae. It took me about 100-200 pages to realize the prologue is set in the current story timeline and relevant, in some way.
My issue is the rape that occurs and is brushed off with zero CW. In the scene, we get from a man’s perspective, through a type of telepathy. The woman is violently grabbed, hurt, scared, and forced to have sex with her partner. He believes she is being attacked and raped. When he finally reconnects with her she says she’s fine, she was just startled and said yes.
I brought this up in multiple conversations, and everyone brushed it off with “well she wrote that she said yes.” My issue isn’t with the clarification but the lack of acknowledgment that spousal/partner rape occurs. If you want to stick to this terrible WWII allegory SJM has in place, then this is like the many families forced to take in Nazis and “offer” their wives and daughters to have sex with them, or those same women die.
The consensus by readers to not acknowledge this book needs a massive TW/CW to protect real life victims, is a massive slap in the face. This is not a victimless crime. The character says yes to save her life, like women do in real life. there's never any real choice.
There were a lot of other issues for me throughout the book, like why is Bryce constantly in a thong and why do we need to know every time she is, and I’m wide open to discuss it in the comments or DMs to avoid spoilers.
Please tread with caution, not only for extremely light spoilers, but also SA trigger warning. This is super edited for the word limit.
I’ll be up front, I didn’t have high hopes going in. I desperately felt the first book needed an editor, and this wrist breaker could’ve been halved. However, I don’t read these books expecting them to alter my life. I am a raccoon, and this is my trash horde.
Right out the gate, we get this prologue that made me uncomfortable, at best. It reads as WWII, historical fiction, set in a concentration camp, but made fae. It took me about 100-200 pages to realize the prologue is set in the current story timeline and relevant, in some way.
My issue is the rape that occurs and is brushed off with zero CW. In the scene, we get from a man’s perspective, through a type of telepathy. The woman is violently grabbed, hurt, scared, and forced to have sex with her partner. He believes she is being attacked and raped. When he finally reconnects with her she says she’s fine, she was just startled and said yes.
I brought this up in multiple conversations, and everyone brushed it off with “well she wrote that she said yes.” My issue isn’t with the clarification but the lack of acknowledgment that spousal/partner rape occurs. If you want to stick to this terrible WWII allegory SJM has in place, then this is like the many families forced to take in Nazis and “offer” their wives and daughters to have sex with them, or those same women die.
The consensus by readers to not acknowledge this book needs a massive TW/CW to protect real life victims, is a massive slap in the face. This is not a victimless crime. The character says yes to save her life, like women do in real life. there's never any real choice.
There were a lot of other issues for me throughout the book, like why is Bryce constantly in a thong and why do we need to know every time she is, and I’m wide open to discuss it in the comments or DMs to avoid spoilers.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, War, Xenophobia, and Slavery
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Blood, and Grief
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