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Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout

9 reviews

straybutterfly's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Sexual content, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexism, Gore, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse

carsons1996's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

This was yet another great launching point for a wonderful new Jennifer Armentrout series. Great suspense and tension and just an overall good style of writing. It follows a similar blueprint to her other series, but I literally do not care because it's just such a unique and interesting take on all the typical fantasy tropes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Confinement and Kidnapping

chi__'s review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Kidnapping, and Alcoholism

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Grief

notbambi's review

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Well, this is the sexiest book I have ever read. This is my first time reading an Armentrout book, and damned if she isn't a master of building sexual tension into every scene, whether it's a spicy scene or not. It's what I wish the ACOTAR series had been.

There were some annoyances. Thorne uses very formal speech most of the time, but then starts talking about his dick in very casual, modern language, and that switch in register felt jarring. Some parts were rather infodumpy. Very little happens in the non-romance plot until the last 5 chapters or so, when suddenly everything goes to hell in a handbasket. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Torture

chelbawamba's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.75

This was fine. Much less involved than From Blood and Ash, but there were plot similarities between the two. Writing was slightly better than JLA’s recent additions to her other series, but still suffered greatly from repetitive phrasing. 

Also an interesting choice by the author to borrow terms and characteristics from another, much more popular series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Gore, and Classism

hellodebbies's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I very much enjoyed the book even though it has flaws. 
The plot really begins towards the end of the book (~70%) and the summary resumes the first30% of the book 💀. There's, of course, some filling but honestly it's a very good summary of the first quarter of the book 😂
It is mainly focused on the characters and their relationship. 
The writing is okay. 
However the cliffhanger is insanely good ! Will definitely read the next one ! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Drug use and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual assault

anoelle896's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Sexism, Gore, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Vomit, Classism, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Torture, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

gen_wolfhailstorm's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Thank you to Black Crow PR for sending a copy my way and including me in the Book Tour. All opinions remain my own.

This was my first Jennifer L. Armentrout novel and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 
I found the pacing to be great, with a focus on drawing our anticipation and action, never verging on being boring, whilst simultaneously not being overwhelming in content. 

To accompany and complement the pacing, I appreciated the chapters being concise and manageable. It added to the desire of the every famous reader phrase of 'just one more chapter'.

I found the characters to be intriguing (especially our MFC) & I quickly grew ever more curious about these highborn lords particularly wanting to know what kind of immortal being they were. Would they fall more under the fae type being or a sort of energy vampire? I feel like this could have been called My Hyhborn lord, but not sure that would have been as catching a title for me.
I thought the lure of the deminyens was pretty cool with the idea of them radiating desire and their origin story was interesting too.

I would have loved to explore deeper the relationship between Lis and Grady. I was shown how their bond was so tight in the childhood but I don't think it was carried as strongly into adulthood enough in example. I would have also have loved to see more expansion between Lis and Naomi.

The romance was super spicy and I was blushing, let me tell you. I think that was one of my favourite parts about the book. It was definitely more romance than fantasy, but there was definitely more than enough magic and fantasy themed political intrigue to not fall too far behind the steamy scenes.

I cannot wait to see where book 2 takes Lis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Violence, War, Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Genocide, Confinement, Cursing, Addiction, Gore, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death of parent

twinklepuff's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Sexual content, Classism, Genocide, Alcoholism, and Cursing