67 reviews for:

A Bloom in Winter

J.R. Ward

4.04 AVERAGE

glitchedshiki's profile picture

glitchedshiki's review

5.0
adventurous funny sad fast-paced

jj7twin's review

5.0
emotional hopeful medium-paced

So many sad and happy tears for Callum and Apex. Seeing this little snippet of what's happening in the world around Wrath's return is great. Obviously when the next book comes it'll be focused on the love story between the main couple but the glimpses of what future books could bring for other characters is fun to see.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings
adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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: Complicated
alishacostanzo's profile picture

alishacostanzo's review

4.75
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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
emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

I had high hopes for this book and it was definitely as emotional as I expected considering one of the MMC suffered unimaginable trauma. Most of the book was spent dealing with that as he worked through what happened to him. As much as I like the realism of a character trying to heal as compared to Ward just making the pain disappear, it made for a sad, emotional and difficult book to get through. There was a HEA but it wasn’t terribly happy.  Too complex to explain without spoilers. I felt like there wasn’t a lot of romance in a romance book. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings
challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense 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
adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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
dark hopeful mysterious sad 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

Need to read the wolven books and the prisoners series first

ice_princess's review

3.0
dark emotional mysterious fast-paced