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itsfranzib's review
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence
Moderate: Kidnapping, Rape, Body shaming, Death, and Emotional abuse
cryosphinx's review
- 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? Yes
3.0
Most of my reading journal notes involve Kolis and
I'm thankful that there will be another book since the connection between FBAA and FAF hasn't fully hit home yet, but this definitely could have been edited down. I didn't have a bad time reading it and did thoroughly enjoy parts, especially Sera being her bad ass self, but it was almost a filler book.
Graphic: Gore, Murder, Torture, Sexual content, Confinement, and Violence
Moderate: Kidnapping and Gaslighting
Minor: Body shaming and Suicidal thoughts
thethingwithfeathers's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Confinement, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Slavery, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Body horror
Minor: Rape, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury
ashliebysmashliereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Rape, Violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Classism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse
tguccione'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
5.0
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
eberzy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
I didn't find the first part of the book to be slow like others have said. There was a fair amount of action, but it was so tough to read. Kolis was vilainified to the extreme. He became an abuser in the grossest way and it all felt like a weird watpadd story. Like Sera's first escape attempt? Come on what was that. Between that and the diamond, it just felt like there was no creativity for those Sera and Kolis scenes. At times, it felt as if there was a big theme around SA and overcoming trauma in this book. I respect that, but it bothered me. I read fantasy for escape and was not mentally prepared for the content to be that dark.
My other probelm was with the side characters. This can probably be blamed on me not doing a re-read of the earlier books in the series, but I could not for the life of me remember the back story on the other characters. There are so many--perhaps too many? And in this book, it seemed like they had no purpose other than to verbally provide world building. There was SO much of that. As much as I like the fun banter dialogue, I would have liked a little more action.
The last 150ish pages were the slowest for me. Such a drawn out conclusion with Sera and Ash just going in circles saying the same thing. A lot of major events happened, but were written anticlimactically. It felt like the emphasis was on other, moments that were seemingly less critical to the plot.
I'm interested to see how this series will conclude. This book felt like it had a fairly closed ending. Here's to hoping there will be more revelations in the final book. This one didn't seem to give a lot, but might have possibly been a big set up for the end...of both Flesh and Fire and Blood and Ash.
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, and Torture
Minor: Abandonment and Vomit
kayanoelle's review against another edition
- 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
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.
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