Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

157 reviews

jessicarenz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

I hated that ending (but in the best way), and now I’m mad at Rebecca Yarros. She better give us a better resolution in book 3.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Blood, War, Cursing, Sexual content, Murder, Gore, Confinement, and Violence

If Rebecca doesn’t give us a cure for Xaden being venin in book 3, I’ll never read one of her books ever again. I’m so angry at last few pages of this book!

seren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Cursing, Torture, Confinement, Genocide, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

Really love this series so far and I’m super hyped for the next one in December! 

Apparently a lot of people are hating on it??? I don’t know man, i still love it. Is some of the dialogue a smidge cringey? Yes. Do I absolutely love reading cringe? Of course I do cause it makes me GIGGLE! I do know it’s not for everyone, but I lived for it. 

Overall, I thought the story in Iron Flame was super fun and the world building for the series as a whole is great. The battles scenes are spectacular (somehow in Iron Flame I found them even better than the last book???? And I thought the final battle in Fourth Wing was chefs kiss) and the TENSION! YEESH! So much tension going on at all times! 

The ending… ugh. 

Wowee man, overall this book was super stressful in a really really good way. Dragons are cool. 😎

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, War, Blood, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Cursing, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

mgcalder's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and War

megbetweenthepages's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

rainbowscuba's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

After the first book I had quite high hopes but unfortunately the author got lost too much in the feelings of the main character while neglecting the page of the story development , which got lost a bit. 

The amount of time the protagonist spends wallowing in her guilt and her mistrust and feelings for her love interest become annoying. She also does not seem to learn from previous mistakes as she seems to insist to repeat them at the next opportunity. 

The sex could have been dialled back as it was not needed for the story and felt out of place at times. 

Overall, the  book could have easily been cut by 1/3 and it would have been faster paced  and the main story would have not been so disjointed and it would have been more enjoyable to follow. 
I was also disappointed that the story about Andarna was left so vague, became important in the end but felt rushed. 

One last thing I did not enjoy the voice actor who read the story for the audiobook version. She felt to have the need to convey the urgency in battle situations by reading louder and louder and faster and faster. It made it comical. 

The ending sets us up for third book but I am not sure if I will even bother. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Sexual content, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Physical abuse, and Violence

michireading's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Classism, Sexual content, Chronic illness, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Ableism, Blood, Cursing, Kidnapping, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and War

p3ach's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Torture, Violence, and War

ninahuynh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

What a war! All the action and fighting and planning. I like how Yarros utilizes the dragons more in this book, especially Andarna (more frequent remarks that I found so funny and at the end). I don't see the romance as wanting to replicate the first book. I see it more as a romantic relationship that goes through tests of trusts. I do find it annoying and a bit controlling when Xaden expects Violet to ask him the correct questions in order for him to offer her the information she wants. And some of her remarks about Xaden became repetitive (though this may also be a me-thing, as I find too much mushy-gushy stuff in romance novels to be overbearing and annoying).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Animal death, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Grief, Torture, War, Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

skylover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Whew, this book had me wishing I was on Tairn's back so I could've strapped myself in for the wildest ride that this story takes you on. The gang gang (Ridoc, Rhi, Sawyer, and Vi) continue to enlighten the book with cute found family moments, lighthearted jokes to poke fun at one another, and be the comic relief scenes between holding my breath and gasping audibly when something crazy happens in the chapters inbetween. I found the writing to be repetitive still at times (Violet saying "Noted", breathing through her nose and out through her mouth, Tairn flying the fastest ever, that Xaden eclipsed/took up space/ was the sun or gravity in the room, and almost tripping over her feet over shocking news got old quick after 300 chapters), and I didn't fully understand Xaden and Violet's relationship this go-around, almost had me shipping Violet and Dain more at times. Still one of the more thrilling and adventurous books I've read, and Rebecca does not disappoint. Faint wait for the third! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Physical abuse, and War

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Confinement, Violence, and Torture