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When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker

21 reviews

callistag1's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

The one star is because the narrators did their job well

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Gore, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal death, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Confinement, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

marleyellise's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed this book and found myself wanting to keep picking it up. The fantasy elements mythical creatures and world building were super interesting, and the angst built between Raeve and Kaan really had me excited, it’s very much slow burn though… I’m hoping that book one is a little spicy, and as they series progresses you get more and more spice along the way as the relationship develops. 
This book was definitely only 🌶️🌶️ at most. 

The glossary/guides were a nice feature to have, and allowed me to reference back when a character, or creature came into the story that I couldn’t remember, but the entire family tree and glossary contain spoilers for the characters and storyline that could have been removed and added to the glossary when the plot point features in the book. 

Upon reflection, although I enjoyed this book, it seemed that not a lot happened plot wise. We spent a lot of our time learning about Raeve, her background and her obsession with Rekk Zharos but not much of the secret elements were shared by the author in this first book. I ended the read feeling a little bit frustrated that I didn’t have a big cliffhanger making me ITCHING for the next book. The book did end on what some would call a cliffhanger.. but not one that made me gasp in anticipation! 
Will I read the next book, yes. But with an expected release date of August 2025, I’m not that disappointed that I have to wait. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

antidietleah's review

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Pregnancy, Stalking, Sexual assault, and Murder

sophierosemaria's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Torture

Moderate: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Gore, Death of parent, Animal death, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Trafficking and Sexual violence

cosmic_kurt's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I will be picking up the sequel for sure. There were bits that I didn’t love and sometimes the MC really got on my nerves, but I do think she stayed true to her character arc even though I got frustrated with her at times. This book definitely is a gateway to an even bigger story, and has a lot of world building but I do think it was done pretty well. In the middle the pacing gets kind of weird but it does get better and it’s worth getting through that. I do wish the POVS were more evenly balanced but I think in the next book it’ll be easier to see from the other characters more. All in all, I would recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Vomit, Sexism, and Pregnancy

jdasilva's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Loved jumping right in and the world building around the story versus a long intro and background. Quick pace from the start that lagged a bit about 3/4 of the way through but picked up again towards the end. I was immersed and desperately hoping for an end tied up in a bow and I was just left with even more questions. Wish I could already be reading the next one!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture, Cursing, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Confinement, Alcohol, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Grief, Domestic abuse, War, and Vomit

rachelbooks's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

Wow. This book was stunning. The world was lush and interesting. The characters were unforgettable. Kaan and Raeve. <3 The writing was artistic and stuffed with imagery. Emotionally raw. I loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death of parent, Violence, Grief, Mental illness, Torture, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Incest, Infidelity, Trafficking, War, Child abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Cannibalism, and Vomit

elledanie's review

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

Horribly written—pretentious, overly descriptive, and exaggerated figurative language confuses the plot & characters, making it difficult and slow to read. Just because it’s “high fantasy” doesn’t mean it gets a pass for boring, heavy prose—that’s not good high fantasy. 

Didn’t give us anything to like or reason to care about the main character. Nothing enjoyable about the dragons either, check trigger warnings. MMC and his friends/family are the only saving grace. 

Also, no resolution? Not necessarily a cliff hanger either since it wasn’t thrilling nor were we given much about these unknown characters to even care.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Violence, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, War, and Cursing

that_awkwardpart's review

adventurous emotional funny

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

5.0

Absolutely beautiful story. I'm in love with the world full of different people and living conditions. Such a unique magical system. And the dragons ♥️. 
This was exactly what I needed. I got lost in the story and this beautiful world. I fell in love with these characters and my heart broke over and over . 
I can't wait to see where the story will lead us . It's definitely a must read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Animal death, Cannibalism, Murder, Torture, War, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Sexual assault, Violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

crybabybea's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

This book is a great light entertainment romantasy in the same vein as ACOTAR or Fourth Wing. I, however, feel duped because it was being sold as a high fantasy with romance and incredible world-building. If you love love love fleshed out fantasy, political strife, and detailed magic systems, you probably will not like this book. It falls apart once you look at it too closely. Fun for what it is but I have to rate it low because it's not what I look for in a fantasy. If I were rating this just solely as a romantasy I still wouldn't rate it very high. I felt ACOTAR was even written better than this which is a very low bar.

 I wrote a 3,000 word essay for how much this disappointed me, so here are the bullet points: 

• Shallow world-building. There are cool, unique things that happen but they serve no purpose for the world (such as the dragons turning into moons). 
  • World building is lazy and the author relies on you reading a 20 page glossary to understand rather than fleshing out the world herself
• Dragons are part of the world but don't serve any purpose beyond transportation.
• No political strife, except for the FMC telling you how awful the king in her region is, despite having a crazy cool premise with a dragon mythology-based elemental magic system whose users are denoted by their colorful beaded earrings.
• Nothing happens in the plot except the very slow burn romance which doesn't pay off at the end
• Magic doesn't really serve any purpose except to sound cool
• The conlang is messy and doesn't work well
• The writing itself is clunky, full of heavyhanded metaphors that don't land
  • Writing repeats itself multiple times with the same cadence and word usage
• Characters with no real personality beyond the tropes they represent, could be replaced with any other romantasy main characters and it would make no difference
• Poor LGBTQIA+ representation (despite it being praised in multiple reviews)
• Because of all these issues, the book is 250 pages longer than it needs to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Rape, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, and Torture