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Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova

7 reviews

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Torture, Confinement, Blood, Hate crime, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Blood, Religious bigotry, War, Medical content, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual content

maple_dove's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Initially, I was tempted to DNF Incendiary more than once because I didn’t think it was worthwhile to continue during the middle section of the book. However, after reading the end, I REALLY WANT TO CONTINUE READING! Illusionary (Hollow Crown #2), here I come!

There are certainly some plot twists, but I did manage to see some of them from a mile away. :)

What separates this series from other YA fantasy is that the story of the MC's love interest precedes the book, the love interest is absent for most of the book, and that most of the book is not focused on romance.

Favorite Quotes:

It is difficult to protect anything when all you can do is hide. ⭐️

You are not a girl. You are vengeance in the night.

I submerge myself beneath the surface of the water again and hold my breath, knowing no matter where I am or what I do, I will never escape the heat of flames and the taste of ash. But I no longer want to escape. I want to wield that fire and watch this place burn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Grief, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, and Death

Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent

Verbal abuse (graphic)

bubbly_lara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

What a book! I was immediately hooked. The reader is thrust directly into the story without much explanation and has to figure out, how the world works and what's going on while following our protagonist Ren. The topics of the book are quite heavy, and I had to stop reading a couple of times and read something fluffy inbetween. Would not recommend if any of the below topics is triggering for you. However, this is a brilliantly written novel, and I cannot wait to see how everything unfolds in the second book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Vomit, Violence, Torture, Murder, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Murder, Classism, Torture, Violence, Vomit, War, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Medical trauma

Minor: War, Sexual content, Blood, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Child death, Alcohol, Child abuse, Confinement, Colonisation, Medical content, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Alcoholism, Bullying, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

h_reads98's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, War, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Trafficking

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Rep: Latine female MC, mute female side character (tongue cut out), queer BIPOC male side character, BIPOC supporting cast--Latine. 

CWs: Blood, child abuse, colonisation, death, death of parent, emotional abuse, fire/fire injury, grief, injury/injury detail, murder, kidnapping, violence, xenophobia. Moderate: sexual content, torture.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual content and Torture

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

3.75

Renata is the most unreliable narrator ever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Torture, and Toxic relationship

azrah786's review against another edition

4.0

 UPDATE - 17/04/21

CW: violence, blood, torture, death, grief, emotional abuse

I'm convinced I was distracted or something on my first read because this time round I thought everything flowed really well in the story and I honestly don't know why I was confused? Though the last few chapters did upset the pacing of the rest of the book because everything was happening so rapidly.
Anyways I enjoyed this a lot more on the second read so I'm putting my rating up to 4 Stars

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**I was provided with a copy of the book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review**

Taking place in a Spanish Inquisition-era inspired fantasy world, Incendiary follows a girl who possesses the rare (and feared) power of stealing memories with just the touch of her hand. As a child she was kidnapped and used as a weapon by the crown in their quest for power. However, she was rescued by a network of rebels and has spent years working with them to help others with magical abilities (Moira) to escape the kingdom. Though her power in particular means that next to no one has ever been able to fully trust her.

When there is a mishap on a particular rescue mission she is forced to dive back into the world of her past in order to save the future of her people, with only her own supressed memories and those she has stolen from other lives circling in her mind to accompany her.

Now I’m a little on the fence about how I feel about this one.

Córdova’s writing and storytelling is beautiful. The beginning immediately draws you into the thick of the rebel movement the story centres on and introduces you to a world with a fascinating magic system. Renata is a protagonist you both feel and root for, yet something just wasn’t clicking for me with the story as a whole.

Memories play a massive part in the narrative and I absolutely loved how this shaped Renata’s character for us as well as the world and people around her. The various twists and secrets embedded in the story, though occasionally predictable, really keep you reading. However, I found that at times I was confused due to missing information – particularly when it came to connecting and understanding the actions and motivations of the various other characters in the book. Some of the reveals happened a bit too abruptly and without much previous explanation… Hence I found that I was not enjoying the book as much as I expected to.

I do plan on picking up the sequel though!
Final Rating – 3.5/5 Stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Torture, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse