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shoni's review
adventurous
dark
hopeful
informative
inspiring
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
3.0
Now finally getting an ending to the story just puts one part of my constantly thinking brain to rest. I do like how it picked up right where the first one ended. That it didn’t bother with a time skip or anything. Just a few unimportant days had passed and I appreciated that. Though I will say even in the second book I felt like I wanted to see more fight scenes, we did get more but it seemed we got more about the planning and sneaking around and such than the fighting scenes. Thoses always seemed to end in a few pages. Which I felt like could be expanded on a lot more. Especially that final battle, which just seemed to have happened so quickly with more taunting than anything. I did enjoy the closer look into the world. On how the different areas were built to accommodate each god and the people within that region. I do wish we got more descriptive on the other lands that Ash was on as I felt a quick overview was done and then not addressed again.
I do think Ash’s character was done amazingly. It could not only see how a war could change someone but someone with so much power could have issues trying to understand where they stand on a war against mortals and gods essentially. This also proved the point that men are useless beings and the best thing for them to do is support a woman. As they are the only ones who can keep things in order and fix things. I did get annoyed as one does when reading with the characters and their decisions and resulted in some rants to my friend but honestly those are the best moments that I always enjoy looking back on texts on to see how emotionally annoyed a book made me at specific moments.
The ending did make complete sense as well yet at the same time not. as like the gods are all dead now but their powers still exist, how does that work? As without a source they don't exist? OR is the physical thing itself a source now? Such as the trees and flowers for the itza people and fire for the kulta? Though having the main gang all lose their power makes sense as no one should be that powerful. Yet still lots of confusion about how such powers still exist now. though I do feel like it did make it full circle and wrapped things up as nicely as possible. Though I would have enjoyed a bit more from the epilouge to know what things are like now.
The ending did make complete sense as well yet at the same time not.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence and War
Minor: Torture
bookwormbullet's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Classism, Death, Violence, Torture, and War
feelingfrazzled's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
literally set fire to the gods was SO GOOD i dont know what happened to this one. I can’t decided if editing just crushed the author’s dreams or if something else happened. it felt like it was a YA book that desperately wanted to be an adult book. and if they had upped the whole series to be an adult series it could have been SO GOOD. and yet.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Gore, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent
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