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book_steph's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault
angstifies'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
4.5
Graphic: War, Death, and Violence
Minor: Rape, Ableism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault
charlotte_ab'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? No
4.75
Moderate: Murder, Death, and Death of parent
Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Rape
constancethereader'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
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence
kaltenmark24'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
4.5
Moderate: Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
starccato's review
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Xenophobia, and Slavery
Moderate: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Medical content, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, and Self harm
Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Vomit
queerspoons's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, and Gore
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
freya_re's review
- 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: Death, War, Sexual assault, Sexism, Misogyny, and Murder
Moderate: Pregnancy and Rape
penguiniq's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
[Yeets Wren's POV into the sun]
A solid finale, if not for the presence of spurious POVs (yes, I'm taking about Wren) it would have been much stronger. Alas, the author decided to once again bump up against my pet peeve of adding POV characters in later books. I'm sure many readers will not be bothered by this, and I did enjoy the action, pacing (except the very end which felt drawn out), and Lei's narrative, in addition to the cool demon setting established in the other books.
Also had a small issue with Ngan tacking on ace rep in the last chapter instead of letting us know this about the character earlier, but it is a light criticism.
Will miss the animal demon world and magic system.
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Sexual assault
adancewithbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The Girls of Paper and Fire trilogy is the empowering story of Lei and Wren. Who were taken as Paper Girls for the demon king but become the bane of his existence. If that doesn't spell kick ass girls I don't know what to tell you.
In this last installment our two girls have been separated, neither of them knowing if the other is still alive. Where in the previous two installments they gained a lot of strength from each other, now they are back on their own. And it causes a lot of self doubts. Especially for Wren who wonders if maybe she is a monster that doesn't deserve Lei.
Lei on the other hand has to deal with what happened previously when she was in the hidden palace. The trauma that the demon king and its inhabitants caused her have left its marks. And while I would rather she didn't have to relive some things I did think it was empowering to see for her as a character how much the Demon King feared the girl she had become. Because Lei kicks an insane amount of butt.
Another thing I was happy about was to see the other paper girls again. I'm glad that they weren't forgotten about in this finale because they all played their part in the first book and it wouldn't have been right to conclude this series without them.
More than that I don't want to share because it wouldn't be right to share too much of this conclusion. All in all this was a good conclusion to a strong empowering trilogy
Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape
Minor: Self harm