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adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
adventurous
challenging
dark
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:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War
Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Pregnancy
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
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
Absolutely loved this book!! From beginning to end!!! My heart just couldn't take it!! Amazing
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, War
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
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
Amazing world building and characterization, allowed me to read with a ferocious appetite because I always wanted to know what happened. World design is at times so complex that I have to refer to outside sources to understand. Plot felt predictable at times with obvious influences from other YA authors and stories popularized in the 2010s. Overall an amazing read that I highly recommend, but was riddled with tropes and predictability at times, leaving it satisfying, but not earth shattering.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Death, Violence
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Super fast read. Interesting world building. I really enjoyed it but it was a little predictable
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Sexual content
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's poorly written. I feel like an editor never even bothered to skim the draft they were sent. It's incredibly repetitive, like the author assumes nobody was paying attention earlier. The repetitiveness results in the supposedly smart character seeming a little slow, and in one hilarious anime-style flashback scene.
At least there's no rape or homophobia.
At least there's no rape or homophobia.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Death of parent
Minor: Drug use
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was thoroughly enjoying this until about 2/3 of the way through, when it became a full smut novel. I had to skim pages on end of making out and then sex scenes, scanning for any relevant plot dialogue 🙄
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, War
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence
Moderate: Grief, War
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This one is hard to rate... the idea and world that is set up is genuinely interesting, but its the execution which falls a bit flat. I'd say its good for a quick, light read with a side of spice, but nothing deeper than that.
One of my reoccurring annoyances was the fact no one apparently thinks saddles are a good idea because the dragons and humans have their pride and ego. Yeah, I don't think holding on with your knees and thighs is going to save anyone when these dragons are the size of buildings and one quick turn can throw a rider off to their deaths. Not to mention how utterly shredded these people's inner thighs would be from scales that are incredibly hard and tough. But okay, Violet is the only one in existence to actually get a saddle. Because Tairn is the only dragon, despite repeatedly being called one of the most powerful in the entirety of Navarre almost, who actually accomidates their rider.
I also don't get the whole deal with the mind readers being brutally killed with no questions asked when Dain can with a touch read people's minds and their most recent memories and get a pass. It feels really odd and selective. The reasoning behind it makes it somehow worse... apparently its a security breach because mind readers can "access classified material." Then again there was a lot of world-building stuff that seemed not very well thought out. If you don't think about it too much it works fine, any more thought and the whole thing falls apart.
That said, the dragons were fun, especially Tairn, and the Hunger Games esque trials were genuinely entertaining and tense at times. Even if trying to kill the riders seemed a bit counter productive in actually defending the realm...
Character wise I did enjoy Violet and Xaden. They were definitely the most fleshed out from the entire cast of characters we were introduced to. Their 'romance' was more lust than love though, which was admittedly a bit disappointing. Violet did have her struggles with her disability, but I felt it only came up when the author wanted some drama and tension in fights, because other than having a few snapped bones happen a bit more often than average and not being able to keep her seat on Tairn, she seemed pretty capable. Not to mention that her unique dragon scale armour gave her a LOT of very literal plot armour.
I do have to say I really loved Liam, so his death actually did make me emotional. I didn't appreciate that he came so close to dying anyway barely 100 pages prior only to anyway die though.
Overall, an easy read, but nothing particularly unique or worth the hype I've seen for this book.
I really need a good read now lol... 😅
One of my reoccurring annoyances was the fact no one apparently thinks saddles are a good idea because the dragons and humans have their pride and ego. Yeah, I don't think holding on with your knees and thighs is going to save anyone when these dragons are the size of buildings and one quick turn can throw a rider off to their deaths. Not to mention how utterly shredded these people's inner thighs would be from scales that are incredibly hard and tough. But okay, Violet is the only one in existence to actually get a saddle. Because Tairn is the only dragon, despite repeatedly being called one of the most powerful in the entirety of Navarre almost, who actually accomidates their rider.
I also don't get the whole deal with the mind readers being brutally killed with no questions asked when Dain can with a touch read people's minds and their most recent memories and get a pass. It feels really odd and selective. The reasoning behind it makes it somehow worse... apparently its a security breach because mind readers can "access classified material." Then again there was a lot of world-building stuff that seemed not very well thought out. If you don't think about it too much it works fine, any more thought and the whole thing falls apart.
That said, the dragons were fun, especially Tairn, and the Hunger Games esque trials were genuinely entertaining and tense at times. Even if trying to kill the riders seemed a bit counter productive in actually defending the realm...
Character wise I did enjoy Violet and Xaden. They were definitely the most fleshed out from the entire cast of characters we were introduced to. Their 'romance' was more lust than love though, which was admittedly a bit disappointing. Violet did have her struggles with her disability, but I felt it only came up when the author wanted some drama and tension in fights, because other than having a few snapped bones happen a bit more often than average and not being able to keep her seat on Tairn, she seemed pretty capable. Not to mention that her unique dragon scale armour gave her a LOT of very literal plot armour.
Overall, an easy read, but nothing particularly unique or worth the hype I've seen for this book.
I really need a good read now lol... 😅
Content Warnings
Moderate: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder, War