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The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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michellemaas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

First read: 5 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Second read: 4.5 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

No thoughts, just a few incoherent sentences.

Poppy being a morally gray badass gives me life.

Casteel losing her and freaking on the battlefield tugged at my stone cold heart.

Poppy, Casteel, Kieran is the trio to end all trios and if there is not a threesome soon I will burst.

The plot finally came together (and it has been a LONG time coming).

I liked that neither the Atlantians nor the Ascended were innocent. Oftentimes authors pick a side when really no one is innocent during a war. There are quite a few things that Jennifer L. Armentrout does that sets her apart from others (that I already discussed in previous reviews so I won't repeat it) but just know that she's really good at her job.

Book 4: The War of Two Queens cannot come soon enough!

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nicolesbookspace's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny informative lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book so much, this is probably my favourite FBAA novel so far.
The cliffhanger was just wow

Poppy being a GOD just wow

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jessannderson's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Definitely my favourite book of the series, poppy actually stopped asking questions every line. The ending is such a cliffhanger but I love poppy’s character development.

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studytea's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional

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

3.75

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samchase112's review against another edition

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adventurous dark slow-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? Yes

2.5

Whew, what a wild ride. As usual, the beginning and end of this book was crazy--so much happening, so much changing, excitement in every scene. The middle.......not as much. Poppy loves her endless conversations, sexy times, and...interesting coping style (aka she just brushes past big info and focuses on tiny info). It is painfully obvious that JLA did not mean to make this a six-book series, and is legitimately making things up as she goes along. And don't get me started on the names that have to be close enough to the normal way but also ~unique~. But I can't pretend that I didn't enjoy a good portion of this book. Yes, most of my jaw dropping was more of the "what the hell is happening?? this makes no sense" variety, but some of it was genuinely fun. I went into this book not intending to continue under any circumstances, and I'm leaving it wanting to read the next book, and excited to see what happens!

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holthmsn's review against another edition

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adventurous dark 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? No

4.5

The Crown of Gilded Bones is yet another epic instalment of the Blood and Ash series. While the beginning of the book is a very quick start with lots of action, it eventually finds it usual pace. Full of love, the truth, and sorrows. The ending left me yearning for more.

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sierraechobravo's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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somberliving's review against another edition

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I couldn’t get over a number of things.

The constant, unnecessary sex scenes. So many. At least one a chapter. And they were always the same thing? I love a good steamy scene, but you get to a point where you skip it because you know it’ll just be a mirror of the scene from last chapter.

The insufferable obsession of the main character by the love interest. It’s cheesy to the point that I hate them instead of ship/love them.

The cheesy/cliche trope of everyone being impressed by the main character. I get it, P is surprisingly powerful, but her words, choices, actions, and looks are always praised as being perfect. It’s unrealistic and makes every character interaction predictable.

The fact that nothing happens. Is Armentrout even following a plot or is she just trying to increase the amount of books published, thereby increasing the amount of money she makes out of this series? 41% done and I swear nothing has happened except the thing that was so painfully obvious if you were paying any bit of attention in the last book. Also, this all should have happened in the last book- I don’t even count this as part of the plot of this one.

Overall - unimpressed. Cliche. Only gets the hype because of the sex scenes (I wouldn’t even call them steamy because they happen so often the magic is lost). Would not recommend unless you’ve never read a book before.

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