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_courtney's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Death, Rape, Murder, and War
beckycarter97's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Death, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Rape
louise_o's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Murder
Moderate: Rape
hadley_w's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
Minor: Rape
kindra_demi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
I get that the characters have 3 books to grow in, but I do wish we saw a bit of growth and change. Yes you see characters who initially weren't going to help because of their beliefs start to help, but their "help" is outweighed with how stubborn/closed off they were still being in other areas. I recognize that Nahri is thrown into a new world and so there is going to be shock and resistance from her, but we barely get a taste of her taking her new life into her own hands (truly and genuinely. Not in a way where she is just trying to figure out the basics of her new life) in the last few chapters.
What had me most excited was that it was a book for those who love politics, and while yes it does have some politics, because of how it was written and the overall progression of the storyline, you just kept getting told the same things over and over again. Most of this book is setting up alliance and rivalries, the background to a couple of those alliances and rivalries, but it's those last 100-150 pages where we see action and the effects of those alliances and rivalries. I will also give that if I wasn't super into political stories, it would get confusing to follow the political world building.
I really hope that the next books are better because I was initially so excited for the trilogy, but this first book isn't meeting what I hoped for it.
Moderate: Death, Gore, Slavery, Blood, and War
Minor: Rape and Alcohol
beccadamb's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
thereadingshelf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War
Minor: Animal death, Rape, and Sexual assault
emilyplun's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I loved the world/setting, but the book overall left me frustrated. The whole story is full of "mysteries," but half of those are the main character just not knowing the basic workings of the magical world or its society, or an event in magical history that every other character is aware of. There are a lot of "who's behind this event?" mysteries too, but it's hard to get into that when the reader is only given a tiny trickle of info about how anything works. The ending was frustrating-- many mysteries weren't solved (which is fine) but a few that were solved weren't satisfying, and then more questions were introduced. I felt like I was drowning in things I didn't understand. As a reader, I wanted to know at least the basic facts that are relevant to a situation (like how x magic works, what happened during x event that everyone keeps referring to), even if the main character doesn't know.
This is really unfortunate since I love the world-building and the basic plotline. I might have to read the plot somewhere and intentionally spoil myself so I can read the sequels.
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, and Murder
Moderate: Racial slurs, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol
Minor: Rape and War
emma985's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Slavery and War
Minor: Rape
rae_bookmarkchronicles's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
I also felt that the romance was unnecessary and even though this is adult it felt like YA - maybe because of some of the tropes used. But overall I did enjoy it and I can't wait to read Kingdom of Copper
Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Rape