Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

43 reviews

marionlundqvist's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

victoriasutherland's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

melinette7chocolatine's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional 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: Complicated

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The whole book will have you holding your breath, only to escalate towards the end. The plot is way too good objectively, horrifying if you're diving into the story. There was so much to say about how Violet's behaviour changed in a disappointing way from book 1 to book 2, as she used to have a maturity that she mostly lost in the second book, but the ending of the story might be enough to make you forget everything you might have had to reproach to the characters. Xaden's development and growth is worth to be noted and appreciated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

vee_eb's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The world building is quite good, but the characters are annoying and the plot is predictable. Self-insert characters are irritating nearly without exception, and the fact that Yarros has made the FMC her personal fantasy of herself and the MMC an idealised version of her husband (and does not hide this) is uncomfortable. I genuinely did enjoy the construction of the world itself, and the overall narrative, but the characters were nearly all either deeply unlikable or underdeveloped — the FMC's best friends are cardboard cut outs and

you hardly care at all when one of them dies

. The sex scenes were alright, but there aren't enough for this to really be considered smut; which is fine because the narrative is intriguing on its own, I just wish the characters were better written!

It's good for a fun summer read, kind of like the Kardashians or Love Island of the book world — switch your brain off and have some fun!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Death, Violence, War

kayabaj's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

abicaro17's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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So in this sequel, Violet and Xaden are preparing to set up their rebel base and start their new year training. Violet struggles to control her signet and emotions following Xadens new assignment. After the trauma in Fourth Wing, Violet struggles to cope with Liams death and the revelation of her brother. To start on a positive note, I love that this was more like a spy novel with all the sneaking around and secrets. The increase in communication between Violet and Xaden is so needed and well handled. Onto the negatives, giving Xaden a crazy ex is so incredibly unnecessary emotionally that it makes me mad. This has almost no combat or actual training in it despite being a book set in a war college where soldiers train to fight. The lack of raw emotion that emanated from the first book is also pretty disappointing. I just feel like this was good conceptually but so rushed and under edited it loses all the charm that was present in book 1. Overall it was fine and I will read the next book but for me this is trending towards From Blood and Ash (great first book and terrible sequels). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

rchulin1's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional fast-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

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Wow such an amazing book loved it just didn’t flow as much as I’d like and it wasn’t as lighthearted and funny as the first book understandably so since this book has a lot more tense moments 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

paulralph's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War

darkademiacookie's review against another edition

3.25

hopeful mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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World building felt incomplete.

For example, they mentioned the different types of wyvern in Fourth Wing and no one elaborated when they could finally talk freely in Battle Brief and other classes, where you'd think they'd learn about the enemy with whatever information they had but not a single mention of the different wyvern happens until during the final battle. Not to mention they received books on venin from the Viscount and no one read them or mentioned what information was in there.

There were many incomplete ideas. I think this had potential but the execution just didn't hit. I also wish there was more real character development. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood