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carrots02's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore
strange's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
There are so many things I could say to describe this series and I don't have the ability to discern them enough to even start.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, and War
Moderate: Toxic friendship
alexture's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
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
4.5
Une lecture très agréable - le monde est bien construit, l'histoire est bien racontée (ce qui n'est pas toujours évident quand on a une narratrice de douze ans), l'histoire est intéressante.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence
Moderate: Ableism
kylieqrada's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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
4.5
4.5 ⭐s. This d e f i n i t e l y lived up to the hype!?!?! So many things I love in my fantasy: magical assassin nuns, magic school setting, sapphic romance, strong female characters (written by a man, like what?), intense magic system, great world building, betrayal, NEED I SAY MORE?? I'm so ready for the next book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, and Toxic friendship
beckycarter97's review
dark
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
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Gore, and Death
azaliz's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Such a good book! Almost all the characters are women, there's sapphic love in the corners (the MC is all about friendship and rage though), all sorts of skin color, lots of badassery and heavy fighting. There's also one disabled secondary character but her disability feels like a token, it's never addressed (but people are all accommodating to her, nobody is *too* nice, so I guess that's good).
I also love the lore and the universe of the story, it's fascinating! Plus the author is very good at explaining the way his world works, and at the beginning of Book Two he summarizes neatly what happened in the previous book, which is a nice touch.
The book contains some flash-forward and flashbacks that are very well done; we are often lead to believe certain things then discover ourselves that we were mistaken, without the characters explicitly explaining what the truth is. It feels very clever.
I also love the lore and the universe of the story, it's fascinating! Plus the author is very good at explaining the way his world works, and at the beginning of Book Two he summarizes neatly what happened in the previous book, which is a nice touch.
The book contains some flash-forward and flashbacks that are very well done; we are often lead to believe certain things then discover ourselves that we were mistaken, without the characters explicitly explaining what the truth is. It feels very clever.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying and Religious bigotry
Minor: Body shaming and Chronic illness
Lots of heavy and gory fighting. Some characters are treacherous (it's often the case in such books) but that's all the negative emotions the book contains: no sexism, no homophobia…littlestbiscuit's review against another edition
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, and Gore
Moderate: Pedophilia
Pedophilia is fairly heavily implied but doesn't happen explicitly in the text. Fairly graphic descriptions of gore, I've got a strong threshold and theaseaoftomes's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
I have complicated feelings about this book. At first, I wasn't sure if I was liking it or that it was living up to the hype, then I got towards the end and started to see why people were liking it so much, but that still didn't make it a new favorite for me.
This follows our main protagonist Nona, who is an orphan and living and fending for herself on the streets when she gets taken in by a convent, but not a typical kind of convent, a convent full of assassin nuns. There's a prophesy and a lot of politics dealing with the four blood types and lots of fighting and things go from there.
The writing of this was pretty decent. I found that the story moved quickly, but I also found that sometimes things didn't flow very well, especially in the beginning. It took a little bit of time for me to properly settle in to the story. But the writing itself was lovely. The story did feel repetitive after awhile though.
The plot was interesting, but also predictable and sometimes I found my mind drifting when it shouldn't have. The basic plot is what I mentioned above, but it's slightly more intricate than that. It's a school setting, but it's assassin school. There's lots of intrigue and conspiracy and prophesy involved as well, but the fighting scenes got to be very repetitive and while I love a good battle and fight scene, it just got to be too much after awhile. But the ending was really great.
The world building was also interesting. I've never seen a book with assassin nuns before, so that was refreshing. I loved the politics of it all and learning about the different blood types and the abilities each type has and how it all ties together. I just really found myself engaged in the world building aspects of this book and at some point I can't wait to learn more.
The characters and their relationships were also very interesting. I loved Nona a lot and I really liked her dynamic with both her superiors and her peers and how much those relationships formed or changed throughout the book. Nona's storyline is one that's very interesting and the way the book ended was really interesting and I'm excited to see what lies ahead.
Overall, I didn't like this book as much as expected, but I still had fun with it and will probably continue on with book 2.
This follows our main protagonist Nona, who is an orphan and living and fending for herself on the streets when she gets taken in by a convent, but not a typical kind of convent, a convent full of assassin nuns. There's a prophesy and a lot of politics dealing with the four blood types and lots of fighting and things go from there.
The writing of this was pretty decent. I found that the story moved quickly, but I also found that sometimes things didn't flow very well, especially in the beginning. It took a little bit of time for me to properly settle in to the story. But the writing itself was lovely. The story did feel repetitive after awhile though.
The plot was interesting, but also predictable and sometimes I found my mind drifting when it shouldn't have. The basic plot is what I mentioned above, but it's slightly more intricate than that. It's a school setting, but it's assassin school. There's lots of intrigue and conspiracy and prophesy involved as well, but the fighting scenes got to be very repetitive and while I love a good battle and fight scene, it just got to be too much after awhile. But the ending was really great.
The world building was also interesting. I've never seen a book with assassin nuns before, so that was refreshing. I loved the politics of it all and learning about the different blood types and the abilities each type has and how it all ties together. I just really found myself engaged in the world building aspects of this book and at some point I can't wait to learn more.
The characters and their relationships were also very interesting. I loved Nona a lot and I really liked her dynamic with both her superiors and her peers and how much those relationships formed or changed throughout the book. Nona's storyline is one that's very interesting and the way the book ended was really interesting and I'm excited to see what lies ahead.
Overall, I didn't like this book as much as expected, but I still had fun with it and will probably continue on with book 2.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty
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