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House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

92 reviews

elledanie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

✨🪽🩶🦌👨‍🎤🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Gore, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

sam_gartley91's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

3.75

Loved it! And really anything SJM does. But it was really whiplashy with multiple pov in the same chapter. And that Bryce seemed to be doing some of the work off page at times so she knew things the audience didn’t. She did that last book too and it wasn’t my fav. It wasn’t like that the audience was learning with her. It bugged me a bit. The fantasy meets sci-fi was interesting and I don’t think I’ve seen that before. There are still some characters that I would love to learn more about. Like what is fury?!! So I’m curious where if anywhere SjM is going next with this series world. The cross over wasn’t exactly what I expected good at times and a little let down at others. I really just wanted them all to be friends!! Which maybe in the future they will/could get there. But overall SjM did seem to tie everything up in a bow. Now it’s for the world to reset itself up. Overall loved it but wish it was difffernt at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Misogyny, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Kidnapping

Minor: Excrement and Abandonment

embelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

Going to need several days to process all that is House of Flame and Shadow. With the sheer amount of content that’s covered, it honestly felt like reading 3 books in one. Was it my favorite Sarah J Maas book ever? No. But were there parts that I really enjoyed and did I still speed through this book at the edge of my seat while losing my cool!? Undoubtedly yes! Sarah J Maas’s world building abilities are next level, and this now has me sooooo excited for ALL her future books (if you know, you know!) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

toweroftheunread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I loved CC1&2, and this felt a bit off. There were lots and LOTS of POVS that kept skipping around. I like that it followed the timeline and you were able to see what everyone was doing simultaneously. 

I felt like Ithan’s plot had so many flaws in it. I understand it is to give him a decent amount of character development, but I felt like it could be done without the excessive self-deprecation and serious damage to other characters that ended up not amounting to much. 

I also felt like there were really good plot resolutions, but we jumped there. There was so much build up for the ONE plot in CC1, and I liked that. This had like a million plot lines that just resolved too quickly for me. It felt rushed and tidied up too quickly for me. There were a lot of emotional parts to the story, but honestly, I wasn’t drawn in like 1 & 2. I definitely cried in the first two, and I swear I’m not a monster, but I didn’t feel attached enough to shed one here. 

I feel like this book could have been really good if we teased it out and added details to the separate POVs and plot lines. The books could have even been shorter, but more detailed in the plot holes. 

It kind of felt like the marvel movies where the first ones were SO good and the quick resolutions left this book feeling almost cheesy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

travistyaverted's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

jcruppert's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

naomi_isreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and War

martharosen's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Classism

sneha_sarcar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nesta98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was pretty much exactly what I thought it was going to be. There were a few surprises and plenty of good bit buried in a lot of detail like the previous two books.

Sarah did tease us with the crossover and I was hoping for so much more content but I understand why she wrote what she wrote.

Best bit had to be all of Lidia’s plot.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and War