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A Bloom in Winter

J.R. Ward

4.04 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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
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cappiethorn's review

2.0

I don’t know what happened to BDB. Honestly it’s felt like her heart hasn’t been in writing these for a while. It’s almost all insta love now, and when it’s not, where there used to be beautiful angst and emotion, is just dullness. And I don’t understand how these used to have several full sex scenes in each book, and now we get one typically, and it’s short and phoned in. Like, is this not a romance series? As soon as these books started getting to about two thirds the length, the quality dropped. What happened to romances that spanned several books? We finally get a couple with history and it falls flat. The time jump didn’t help. Her efforts for a clean new start are wasted when she’s not giving these books the meat and attention to detail they deserve.
hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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: Complicated
emotional hopeful sad 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
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kiltfan's review

4.5
adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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kimberly_b's review

2.0

I still don't understand why Ward did the 30 year time jump. I felt like I was missing something since I didn't finish the Prison Camp series.

pedsrnreads's review

5.0
emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes