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nixieba25f'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, War, Violence, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Stalking
Minor: Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, Slavery, Grief, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, and Medical content
sunrisepages's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Death, and Murder
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, and Death of parent
sophieissapphhic's review
3.5
- This book expanded on the Avatar Universe so well!! This was worth the read for the worldbuilding alone.
- I liked the character relationships! They were developed well.
- Be gay, do crime.
- I disliked the inconsistent pacing. In the beginning, it dragged, and the other two thirds of the book felt all over the place pace-wise.
Content Warnings: violence, death, child death, parental abandonment, body horror (teeth horror; brief), fire & fire-related injuries, blood, grief, alcohol consumption
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Death, Grief, Violence, and Child death
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Alcohol and Body horror
melancholymegs's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Murder, Abandonment, Blood, and Death
Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence
Minor: Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Torture, and Vomit
lucystolethesky'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? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Grief, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Emotional abuse
talonsontypewriters'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
4.25
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Classism, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Medical content, Bullying, Alcohol, Animal death, Body horror, Genocide, Abandonment, and Gaslighting
Minor: Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Vomit
Suffocation. Drugging/poisoning.hayleyvem's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Bullying, Death, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Death of parent, Medical content, and Gaslighting
fartplatinum'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? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Blood and Grief
Minor: Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping
bookcaptivated'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Child death, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
Minor: Death of parent, Abandonment, Genocide, Gore, Grief, and Torture
fiveredhens's review
- 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
4.0
The faint, flowery scent that filled Kyoshi's lungs made her head swim and her pulse quicken. Kyoshi kept still like it was her life's calling, unwilling to make any motion that might disturb her friend's fitful slumber.
Eventually Rangi fell into a deep sleep, radiating warmth like a little glowing coal in the hearth. Kyoshi realized that comforting her throughout the night was both an honor and a torture she wouldn't have traded for anything in the world.
Kyoshi closed her eyes. She did her best to ignore the pain of her arm losing circulation and her heart falling into a pile of ribbons.
With their eyes on each other, it was easy to be brave. Maybe that's the only way we get through this, Kyoshi thought. Just never look away.
Relief came like a monsoon. She did not have to meet them. She didn't have to discover what kind of person she was when the past unearthed itself and took solid form.
"Survival training at the academy," Rangi said, breaking a bone with her fingers to get at the marrow. "We learned to accept whatever food we could find in the wild."
"I used to eat garbage," Kyoshi said.
They look at themselves like forces of nature, as inevitable ends, but they're not. Their depth is as false as the shoals at low tide. They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience. ...
They're humans like us, made of skin and guts and pain. They need to be reminded of that fact.
this could get a little boring and too gritty for me but it was definitely the first post-a:tla canon work that i've really enjoyed. i think it did the setting justice
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fatphobia, Grief, and Racism