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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

59 reviews

emilynacey's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and War

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Suicide

mattiedancer's review

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

Writing: 4⭐️/5 

The writing is solid throughout the novel. At points, the writing really shined through, but I found it very hard to parse the novel at the beginning. In fact, the first fifty pages (give or take ten to twenty) felt almost unedited. The grammar and spelling were fine, but the info dumps on every other page lent a sort of unpolished feeling to the opening.

Characters: 4⭐️/5

I felt the characters often had their own identities, even as I noticed a few similarities here or there with characters in her other novels. I found myself liking, agreeing with, and understanding their motives and perspectives. A couple of times, I did feel like they acted incredibly out of character, but it didn’t necessarily take away from the fun of the novel.  

Plot: 4⭐️/5 

The plot was fun – even with a couple of holes that I wish had been finessed further. I enjoyed reading about the mystery and the romance plot once I got into the novel. Again, the information dump that was the first portion of the novel did take away from this enjoyment.

Who Should Read This Book? 

• Sarah J. Maas fans
• Fans of urban fantasy looking for a fun read with a hint of spice
• Readers who like romance-heavy novels that still have interesting plots

Content Warnings? 

• Sexual content, sexual harassment, death, injury, animal cruelty, drug use, alcohol use, death of a friend, murder, gore, blood, vomit, gun violence, sexism

Post-Reading Rating:  4⭐️/5

I enjoyed it enough to say I’ll read the next one for sure! 

Final Rating: 4⭐️/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Torture, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, Misogyny, and Slavery

mwmason01's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

link_reads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Holy Gods, if I could give this book more than 5 stars I would. This is my new favorite book by a landslide. You know its a good book when you forget to tab the last 150 pages because you were grasping onto everything the book was throwing your way. I have never felt such an emotional and deep connection to inked words on a page before, and this is the first time I have ever held my breath while reading a passage. If anyone has any idea on how to emotionally process ths is novel, please, its going to take me weeks. 
At some points the plot felt a little rushed, and some information was hard to keep track of, but regardless, I'm in love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, and Violence

katbsc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

80% of the book is 5 stars. Small deduction because the exposition is very slow so it was hard for me to get past that to where it started moving.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual content, Violence, Slavery, Xenophobia, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Gore, and Suicide

vaguely_pink's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Death, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Classism, Torture, Medical content, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Violence, and War

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Death of parent, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

audieeee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Idk why it had to be 800 pages… honestly looked up spoilers to keep myself engaged.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Drug abuse

Minor: Suicide

mikreads's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

spacewhombus's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I requested this from the library after seeing everyone going crazy over the second book in the series, and it only took me a few days to read when it became available despite it being super long- there was so much happening and I didn't want to put it down! 

I liked how complex and varied this fantasy universe was, but I wish there had been just a few types of magical creatures rather than literally every type (angels, werewolves, mermaids, fae, vampires, demons, sprites, witches, fauns, wraiths, etc... plus humans, and that isn't even all!). It was interesting to see how their society worked with all of that different magic, despite like the entire foundation of their social structure being built on hierarchies and slavery- big trigger warning there.

I enjoyed most of the characters and felt that even the side characters had some depth to them, and I looked forward to each different perspective. There were a lot of shocking reveals and they had me questioning some of my favorites at some points, but it kept me on my toes for sure!  

As for the main characters- I'm sorry but Bryce is a HORRIBLE name for a half human/half fae leading heroine and I kind of didn't like how she was always ~sexy and perfect~ but she was very strong, confident, and brave, so we love her! She really went through a lot by the end and she deserves some happiness, my god, so I am a little scared to read the next book. Hunt is another horrible name for a character, but I also really enjoyed his development, although his story was SAD, folks. The romance was also pretty good, definitely a slowwww burn if you are into that and not cringey at all. There was way more focus on the overall plot rather than the romance, so if you are searching for a more romantic/sexy book then this probably won't be for you.

Overall, this was a nice read and it had a lot going on and lots of twists, so definitely kept my interest until the end and had my emotions all over the place as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Slavery

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Suicide and War

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Medical content, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Grief, Blood, Cursing, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and War