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Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, War
Moderate: Chronic illness
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Death of parent
Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Grief
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
xaden: *proceeds to keep even more secrets from her*
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I know, I know, many of you hated the romance drama here but before I am a Romantasy or Fantasy girlie, I am a Romance girlie and lemme tell you, I LIVED for this
Xaden and Violet still love eachother so much and I know in my heart that they'll make it but I could still understand all their fights and disagreements and I could also understand Violet's perspective (even if many here seem to not 🙃). And their making up scenes were the best hihi
What I absolutely hated was the OW drama 🙅🏻♀ sooo unnecessary
I would've loved some more action from the start! Violet finds out there's a revolution, oh my god 😍 and then she...goes back to school? And then they all join the revolution! Fun! 🥳 And then...they have more school? Yeah, that's a thing readers have often complained about when books are set in a school but maybe there was a reason the school part wasn't always present 😭 It got boring so quickly. I still found it quite comforting (yeah I know, kinda weird) for some reason, just like book 1, but it was also boring (those things CAN coexist).
But once we get into the action and all the gryphon riders get important, too, I was so ready for it! Violet leaving Basgiath also sees her entering a whole new dimension of this war and the way it's going to impact the whole continent.
I still don't really understand the whole Darkwielder/Venin thing and its details but going by that ending we'll soon find out more 👀
The ending part before the ending (y'know) got a bit too messy for me and didn't have the emotional punch for me that it obviously had for Violet. Just couldn't feel that connection!
A connection I *could* feel was Mira & Violet <3 absolute highlight 🥹 (Brennan's a bit annoying though ngl)
No matter my few criticisms, I spent every minute I had listening to this book and I'm soo excited for the next one 🙏🏻
Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, War
Moderate: Animal death, Drug use
Graphic: Violence, War
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, Murder
Minor: Chronic illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent
Moderate: Confinement, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail
A few things that brought it down from 5 stars for me: Violet and Xaden’s relationship dynamic gets pretty repetitive and frustrating, but I’m hoping that it was intentional and we’ll see growth from them moving forward. I also didn’t like how many times the story jumped forward to the next day or several days / weeks later because I felt like I was missing things (like, did they talk about xyz but we didn’t see it or have they not even discussed it?). I just want to know what happens every minute of every day!! Even the “boring” day-to-day stuff because that’s when we get to see Violet’s friends and learn more about the world :( but I also get that it’s already a long book. Similar to FW, the writing is simply fine — not so terrible it ruins the story but also not good (I swear to god everything is measured in heartbeats as if this world does not have any other unit to measure time)
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Abandonment
The twist ending seems utterly cruel, and I'm oddly excited to see what the third book does with it.
Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail