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bergha1998'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
Historic Fantasy, Romance Subplots, 1 🔥
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
public_nuisance's review against another edition
2.75
- I found it difficult to connect with any of the characters. None of them particularly won me over or gave me reason to root for them. This was disappointing because you can tell the cast was carefully crafted, but I couldn't quite pin Luiza's personality down except for what's directly told to the reader.
- This story reeks of a YA author dipping their toe into the world of adult fiction. The sex scenes were fine, but sometimes crass language was used at points where it weakened the scenes.
- Spoilers:
im personally just not the biggest fan of immortal x mortal, especially with how young Luiza was portrayed.
Graphic: Cursing, Blood, Antisemitism, and Classism
theespressoedition's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Infidelity, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement
pewterwolf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Luzia seizes the chance to better her self, but as her notoriety grows, the danger of her Jewish blood grows as, if she gets found out, the Inquisition’s wrath will be unspeakable. She has to stay several steps ahead. But the rules are always changing in the Spanish court and not everyone gets out alive.
I think I have to finally admit to myself that historical fiction and me aren’t going to get along and I need to stop pushing this genre onto my TBR lists.
I struggle with them. This audiobook took me a month to get through. I started it the week of release, but I really struggled to connect with this. Plus, my brain was all over the place So I couldn’t really focus on this. But, when I did sit down and listen, I found myself bored and not connecting with the characters and the story.
The story felt very slow and quite heavy (at times) for me. I like stories to have some pace when it starts, but it felt as if it took an age for the plot to charge forward. If you are a fan of slower burn of a plot where you get to know the characters, this is for you. But I find I like to know characters when they are doing something or when the plot is moving.
While I wasn’t a fan of the story and the characters (they’re flawed characters, but not exactly likeable. I understood why they behaved the way they did, but I found it them frustrated and every time I found an element of them that I liked, something happened and I would be back at square one with this character), I am a fan of Leigh Bardugo’s writing and it fits so nicely with the audiobook’s narrator, Lauren Fortgang. I know she has read several other books by Bardugo, but this partnership works.
But this wasn’t for me. If you are a fan of historical fiction with an edge of magic, you should check it out. But be warned, it is a slow burn of a plot and can be heavy in places.
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War
Moderate: Cursing and Infertility
Minor: Dementia and Death of parent
midnightrose_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content
Minor: War
torturedreadersdept's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
emma_lynn_writes's review against another edition
4.0
Things that I didn't love: the romance that jumped from 0 to *spice* and the ending.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing
chasinggrace'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? No
4.5
Leigh Bardugo you have DONE IT AGAIN!! A dark romantic fantasy set in 1400’s Spain that features a determined girl and a cursed immortal man. The pure YEARNING from this man absolutely made the book for me. The way he phrased his love for her was beautiful - this writing was fantastic.
This is gothic fantasy, so slightly slower and darker than epic or ramantasy novels. But I loved it just the same. Not all of the characters were likable, and many were hatable. I found myself thinking, “this is gonna end badly” so many times because I couldn’t see a way out for our FMC.
Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Genocide, Infertility, Misogyny, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism
ohennui'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
4.0
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Physical abuse and Death of parent
soniajoy98's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Cursing, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Confinement, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and War