Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout

138 reviews

brfmckay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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: Blood, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

mari_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

This book has some solid moments. Good medium spice…some of the time. MMC came off as a creep for 70% of scenes. Poppy is not a good narrator. I will say, her world building is kind of all over the place but it almost feels like I will accept whatever to get to the next chapter! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual content, and War

allisonamber's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

5.0

Best filler book I've ever read 🫶🏻

Things we don't have: 

• plot

Things we do have:

• Sexual tension
• Lots of traveling (is there a "only one horse" trope?)
• Casteel once again murdering people for Poppy
• Weirdly sexual but hot scenes of Casteel drinking Poppy's blood
• Kieran and Casteel obvi being ready for a threesome
• Casteel caring for Poppy's wounds *sobs*
• yeah i think that's it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, Child death, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death

The rape tag is for a veryyy dubcon scene between Poppy & Casteel

reasek's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and War

Minor: Kidnapping

rmconnolly's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.75

I feel like this book moved a lot quicker than the first. Lots of stuff happening to tie in a lot of plot points. Casteel has thankfully grown on me!!! Poppy too. Kind of just a fun world to read and not necessarily have too much attachment to. 

So Poppy is half-Atlantian, granddaughter of the Ascended, and now descendant of the King of the Gods (which is ??).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Sexual content

meghan1111's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, War, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Child death, Physical abuse, Torture, and Slavery

rorireads33's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

amfrizi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape

ofmeganreads's review against another edition

It was too much yes and no. The I hate you and the Oh his eyes and that I want you. I don't like the sexual content. I always skip pages, but this just felt like horny characters that don't know how to control themselves and have a civilized conversation. Plus, the gruesome history of the kingdom is too much to handle. It just isn't a book for me and I normally enjoy fantasy novels with enemies to lovers. This book is a walking disaster of triggers that I couldn't continue reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, Blood, Body horror, War, Death of parent, Body shaming, Genocide, Child abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship