Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Quarta Asa by Rebecca Yarros

717 reviews

the_real_shawna_v's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring 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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I put off reading this book for a long time because it was popular on the socials and getting all these raves at a time when I was getting burned by books that were getting raves that I was ending up DNF-ing. I didn’t believe the hype until my own adult daughter confirmed it a worthy read. 

The author does a great job developing her characters, including the ones you love to hate. The dragon personalities are really enjoyable, and the human friendships are believably tenuous until they’re not—and they hit all the right loyalty and comedic notes while growing in depth and a sense of not only becoming a team, but a family.
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I’m really glad I finally gave Fourth Wing a chance—even though I am low-key wishing I would’ve waited until the full series was available. On to book 2!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Violence

dlsmk's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

rowstream's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional funny tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War

Minor: Vomit

luminescify's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad 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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I am unwell. My emotions are a jumbled mess and I don’t think I’ve sobbed quite that hard over a book since I read the end of A Court of Wings and Ruin. You know what you did Rebecca for that .25 deduction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

ericiusm's review against another edition

0.75

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This is cringy edgy shit. Curse G. R. R. Martin for giving authors the great idea of killing characters off with ease, cause now every wanna be edgelord out there kills people left and right for the sake of gasps. Yarros is a horny teenager try hard that doesn’t understand worldbuilding, romance, fantasy and the military. Sometimes I wonder why my stupid brain gave me such powerful insecurities paired with perfectionism, cause without by now I would have been a best selling author of at least one poorly written fantasy trilogy…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War

chanlo1994's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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My initial thoughts were this story is Divergent but with dragons, then it shifted into a My Hero Academia vibe, but it's also totally it's own story. Loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

erossmiller's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

my_aesthetic_is_books's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Bullying

isaile's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol

hannahcadwell's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark sad 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

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I really wanted to dislike this book. Rebecca Yarros has made some… questionable choices in her writing and her public presence, but when a coworker lent me the book I figured I might as well see if the hype was worth it. And yeah, her writing can be lazy and the romance made my skin crawl at times, but DAMN. This book pulled me IN. It really reminded me of the fantasy I loved so much in middle school but written for me as a 20-something. I mean, the Divergent parallels are so strong. But there are things that I think Yarros did well. I loved how she included a disabled main character and didn’t have magic just, cure her (bonus points for including a Deaf/Hard of Hearing character!). There is queer representation (albeit mostly in background characters) without being weird. And as I reached the latter part of the book I felt that the story became more unique. I’ll be diving into the second installment with relish, but I’ve still got my eye on you, Rebecca.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent