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carsons1996's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Trafficking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, War, and Alcohol
Minor: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Kidnapping
litwitchcore's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Cursing, Violence, Medical content, Gore, Death, Sexual content, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent
unboundbooklover's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Blood, Torture, Violence, and Vomit
Minor: Car accident and Death of parent
noellelovesbooks's review against another edition
4.5
Mention of: death of parent[s], toxic relationships, toxic friendships, child abuse, child sexual assault, and alcoholism.
Holy crap, by early afternoon I'd hit about 50% so I decided to do a bunch of house cleaning...then when I go to lay down last night I decide to finish the book...and that ending!
This book had me all kinds of emotional and desperate to start book 5.
Graphic: War, Death, Murder, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Alcoholism
fairyelle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Violence and Sexual content
Moderate: Sexual violence, Blood, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Vomit, Violence, War, Death, Classism, Kidnapping, Confinement, Child abuse, and Alcohol
beckyremillard's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
A dragon?! Scratches my Fourth Wing itch..
That ending is rough, glad the next book is already out for me to immediately start. I expect that there’s more to the story than I think because there is too much unresolved with Nox for him to die.
Graphic: Sexual content, War, Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood
bangiebangs's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
The rest of the bonds get completed here, though one is with... very very questionable consent (on both sides). Consent is kind of implied, but bonding also happens under pressure for one of the participants. I'm not a fan of this... even if it works out in the end. But part of the story is that this coupling is messed up for reasons that predate the events in the books.
The small comments about body size are happening again (in all the books, and I dislike them a lot), and the more we learn about bonds the more they are all hetero somehow? Like... where are the central bonds that are bonded to people of different genders? Why is this all so straight? I feel like that's wasted potential in this universe.
Am already reading the next one and will finish the series, but these basic problems run throughout (occasional fuzzy consent, heteronormativity (even if yes, there is a token gay character), body image). The plot itself is interesting and I'm enjoying the twists, though. Also, the spice is pretty good, would give a 4/5 (esp recommend if you like multiple participants, I just wish they would also interact with each other, not just the MFC, because again, wasted potential...)
Graphic: Sexual violence, Alcohol, Blood, Toxic relationship, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Death, War, and Gun violence
Moderate: Vomit, Car accident, Child abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Grief
questionable consentkoistyfishy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️/5
When I started the series, my liking for it was measured in the number of fucks that appeared in the text. The first book had 466 fucks in it. The second book was a little less, the third EVEN less and , unfortunately, in this book we only had 194 fucks.
In correlation to the fucks my liking for this book exponentially decreased. Something else is, I have grown an increased annoyance of the word bond in any FORM. It appears in this book 862 times! There are only 532 pages, which means that we almost have the word bond mentioned at least twice per page.
It's like, okay, we get it! They're bonded! They have a bond! You don't have to refer to them that way. It's like by book four, we get the fucking point that there are bonds! It's like they are all Rhys and suddenly the word mate needs to be uttered 50 thousand times to make sure the universe knows. I almost DNF'ed this book. Not because it's bad, it's like this is trash TV.
The problem is that because it's trash TV, it is almost recycling plot elements. There is the same feeling, the same story. There is a resistance attack, Oli bonds with her bonded and bonds (both in the "bonded sense "and just a "general" sense of bonding with a person). The smut is not as awesome as I expected it to be. Basically the story is not really giving me anything new and the story is boring.
This is just plain old boring and the character of Oli is just starting to get irritating. As much as I could deal with her irritation previously because the angst and drama drew me into the book, I didn't mind then. NOW I CAN'T HANDLE IT!!! I just wanted the book to end. It was a major chore to actually finish this!
I will read the other two because I am still interested to know how the series is going to end. But I'm going to need a break. A couple of books in between should be good to just dilute the story in my mind so it doesn't feel like I'm reading the "same shit on a different day".
Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Cursing, and Violence
Moderate: Blood, War, Kidnapping, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
unicornofthesea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Domestic abuse, Blood, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, and Gore
ka_ke's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Body horror, Mental illness, Grief, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Classism
Moderate: War, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Vomit, Gun violence, and Kidnapping