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Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

15 reviews

ssellwood's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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

4.0

Realm Breaker follows Corayne, a pirate's daughter drawn into a scheme to protect the realm from otherworldly dangers, as someone schemes to rip apart the boundaries between worlds. Good for fans of the chosen one and found family tropes, and filled with fighting, betrayals and travels. I especially enjoyed the nautical parts which are reminiscent of Pirate's of the Carribean and the classic plot twists I would expect from Aveyard. The main improvement for me would be that I don't feel very connected to Corayne, who I feel should be the main protagonist, but this is made up for by the good exploration of the bold, determined and sassy character of Sorasa; and found the chapter pacing a little clunky at times with the backwards time jumps.

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Content Warnings

Minor: War, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, and Death of parent

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Chronic illness, Death, Physical abuse, Classism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Blood, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Murder, Drug use, Police brutality, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Misogyny, Stalking, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, and War

ambaright's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

It took me a while to read this book, I started it and read the first 200 pages in Jan 2023. However, a rough spring semester of my junior year of college led me to have a sad and long hiatus from reading. I finished this book five months after I started it, making it the first read of 2023. What I love about Victoria Aveyard, is that no matter how long I take a break from her books, I am able to return back to it with full steam and become entranced again. 

Realm Breaker truly is a book about how the A team fails and how the B team, full of a bunch of misfits, come together to save the world. I loved all of the characters and their quirks, the world building is astounding (like the Queen herself always does). I can’t wait to see how Corayne continues to rise to the challenge and save the Ward. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

madisone's review

adventurous hopeful tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Animal death

nora_knight's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

As the introductory book to a series, I enjoyed it. It took a while to introduce each of the characters and set off on their quest, but it seems to set up an exciting adventure and I'm already anticipating reading the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Self harm, Grief, Death, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Slavery, Death of parent, and Confinement

mayaschmerf's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Murder, Grief, Animal death, Death, Cursing, and Blood

keelinmcneil's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Gore, War, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture

frantically's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was SO GOOD. It's everything you want from epic fantasy — awesome descriptions, allll the kingdoms, immortals, heirs that somehow only have cousins, not siblings, and names that look like keyboard smashes.

You can really see how Aveyard's writing has become so much more mature since RQ. I loved all the characters and their stories linked really well together. 

I especially loved Erida, mainly because she reminds me of my favourite historical women (I'm a history major, forgive me). She's such a well written morally gray/black/idek character and I'm so so excited to see how her story progresses and all the other ones as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Gore, Death, Violence, War, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Grief

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

marylinaris's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

While there are several things I didn't like about this book, I did overall enjoy my reading experience of this book.

Let's start with the negatives.
• This book had way too many POVs, especially when it came the main group had found themselves together. That was also the point I felt as if there were too many characters present - I mean, I was intrigued by Andry in the beginning but it felt like he didn't really get that much attention in the later part of the book, similar with Corayne, who is just kinda present for parts of the book.
• So much book, so little plot. While I feel like the plot picked up in the last third of the book the rest had a lot of chapters with little plot development. This only irks me a little though because I did enjoy the character focused storytelling, though I hoped for more to happen overall.
• The action scenes fell flat for me most of the time. In contrast to the rest of the book, a lot happened in a lot less pages and they felt confused about what was happening (no matter who was the POV character, which is probably my main problem with it).

The positives on the other hand:
• The world building felt like a familiar fantasy setting but unique enough not to come off as a bland copy.
• I really like all of the characters - except Taristan, who only got slightly intriguing in the last chapter. Out of all of them Dom is the most compelling character by far, though. I love him. Would die for him. 10/10 would read the next book just for him.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: War, Grief, Death of parent, and Confinement

fantasycat's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Murder, and Violence