Reviews tagging 'Violence'

A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer L. Armentrout

48 reviews

wackly93's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and War

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

Well. Some of the characters are lovable. Others can rot in the Abyss for eternity. 

I have a lot of conflicted feelings about this book. I think I'd struggle to reread it again, and I hate to say that. However, this book was such a trauma fest. Only the last 15% was somewhat palatable, to be honest.

We deserved that smut fest, tbh.

I really struggled with the fact that it took about 60% of the book for Sera and Ash

to reunite. At least in TWOTQ when they were separated for about half the book, Kieran was with Poppy and we also got Cas's POV on the side. This was just never ending trauma, built again and again on Sera, and that was......rough.

 

There was also SO much info dumping. Like....SO MUCH. I feel like this series is just solid info dumping, so much so that it gets fatiguing after a while. I definitely felt that in this book, and I think the simultaneous trauma Sera endured just made it harder to get through. I really hope someone on insta makes a nice summary infographic on this book, because uuuffffffff. 

MAJOR SPOILER:

The smut fest at the end, though. HOT DAMN. And ASH AND HIS LOVE FOR SERA. I FUCKING KNEW IT. I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT.  The best thing about this book is her ascension and Ash loving Sera. (And Sera hacking Solis to pieces, but who's asking...)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, War, Vomit, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Torture

tguccione's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Death, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gaslighting, Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

dani_reis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

The 40-50 pages of straight smut was too much. The first 70% was so fast paced, and then things got sad and smutty. It did prove that what was done for Soul of Ash and Blood can be done in approximately 3 chapters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Torture, Toxic relationship, War, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Rape, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

kimmag92's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.0

Overall I enjoyed this installment.  I did find the middle to be a bit slow but this book has so many implications for the main Blood and Ash series that my mind was kind of blown for the intricacy of JLAs plotting.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual violence, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

kayanoelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry for the 2.5 stars (I love you Sera and Ash!!) but I wasn’t the biggest fan of like the first 400 pages tbh. There’s just too much talking:(
The rest was great and all but idk this did feel kind of unnecessary and too loooong.
Best thing about this book was Attes’ character being explored more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Murder, and Gore

Minor: Grief, Body shaming, War, and Suicide attempt

fayemh's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

despite myself i really enjoyed this. i still think all of jl armentrout's work needs significant editing to improve the pacing -

sera spent way too much time imprisoned without that much progression of the plot.

HOWEVER the main couple are cute and ash is literally perfect 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

kateped's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Gore, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Sexual assault