Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

A Light in the Flame by Jennifer L. Armentrout

14 reviews

vettechmama3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.75

I am doing the alternate reading with B&A and F&F intertwined. Once again, the banter is chefs kiss🤌  Sera and Nyktos are the power couple I needed. I love every aspect of them! The side characters are amazing and keep me entertained and enthralled. The Primals, minus Veses (lol), are cool to learn more about and get a feel of. The plot, the scheming, the realms, and the romance make it so easy to lose yourself in these books. I'm jumping right into the next and am dying to see what is to come for the couples of both series 👑🩸

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Sexual content, Death, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, and Cursing

Minor: Child death, Kidnapping, Infidelity, and Body shaming

selestre's review against another edition

challenging mysterious 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Confinement

Minor: Infidelity, Torture, Body shaming, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Vomit, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Child death, and Murder

louisepea's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, War, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Rape, Child abuse, Confinement, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

itmakessenseincontext's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

itsmaddiebauer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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

3.75

Better than the last book. Lots of crucial plot information. I read this book faster because I was actually interested this time. They bangin bangin. Sometimes it for real felt like every other chapter but, I understand the point of that within the relationship development of the characters. 3.75 because I found it more enjoyable than the last book. I like the way JLA is writing the characters in this series vs FBAA. The characters are more tolerable.

BE MINDFUL OF READING ORDER.
I’m realizing I should have read A Shadow In The Ember and then The War of Two Queens and THEN A Light In The Flame. I read AWOTQ before both of the books in this sub series and I will need to reread to capture all of the details. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Sexism, Murder, Violence, Mental illness, War, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Grief, and Body shaming

trzcuit's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body shaming, Blood, Abandonment, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt

michaela_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really like this series of JLAs. I do think it’s kind of repetitive of the FBAA storyline and characters, BUT I think that’s okay because I kind of like this story better. And I think it also helps show the parallel between Sera and Poppy’s stories since they’re ultimately connected and related. 

This story started off slow and I felt like they were having a lot of sex (don’t get me wrong I love shut), but there wasn’t much plot development. It did pick up in the last half and once that happened I had a hard time putting the book down. The ending kind of snuck up on me and I felt left a lot of plot lines and points open that I thought would be resolved but I guess that’s because there’s going to be another book lol so I’ll just wait to find out! Overall it was a good story and plot with a twist at the end I wasn’t expecting, and I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Death of parent, Infidelity, Death, Animal death, Grief, War, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Slavery, Suicide attempt, Fatphobia, Murder, Body shaming, Confinement, and Cursing

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Cursing, Gore, Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, War, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Child death, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

samantha_ellen's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

I enjoyed every minute of this book & didn’t  want it to end. I believe this is the best of all of JLA’s novels. The pacing was perfect & sentence structure was much easier to understand. There was still moments of modern language but I could over look that because everything else was amazing for me. 

The relationship between Nyktos & Sera was one of the best I think I have ever read. I love them & their story so much. The spice was outstanding, the banter was spot on & the tension throughout the whole book was perfection. 

I also really appreciated sera’s anxiety rep, it felt very real & the author explored it with nuance - I felt very seen in those pages. 

Overall I think it’s my favourite of the whole FBAA world & I can’t wait for the last book! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Sexual content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

opheliaslittlelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders