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yarisbooksandbevs'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Car accident
nineinchnails'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
4.0
i think this is the first time i've felt them make progress with each other without them completely backtracking afterwards even if it is tentative and fragile progress. i am pretty much a tory girl now i think; she's so stubborn and prideful and argumentative and moody and insecure and vulnerable and loyal i would die for her!!! she feels very real and i feel more connected to her than i expected to at the start of the series. i think it might have been another case of me finding a character (ever so slightly) irritating because they remind me so much of myself that it's painful. some of her decisions and actions are questionable to say the least but it's more and more understandable the more we see of her chapters.
that goes for all the main characters if i'm honest since they get even more development + growth and even the ones i was iffy about i've kind of softened to. i'm still not obsessed with darcy and orion together (torydarius clear them any day) but i think i've come out the end of this book not hating them together so much... whatever makes darcy happy i guess! i do think the gap between them in terms of power imbalance/their dynamics is starting to close so it feels like they're closer to an even playing ground, if that makes sense, which is making me less icked out over them now. torydarius had so much development in this book and i was almost glad for the reason that they were suffering in this book because i don't think we could have got so much good without all that bad (in this context at least) but i'm hoping they get some sort of reprieve from the turmoil in the next book cause i don't know how much more i can take of it. ALSO torydarius felt very buffy x spike coded here like specifically season 6 the episode where the house falls down i'm obsessed with them.
the last half of the book made me feel sick because i was cycling through ITS JOEVER💔 and WE ARE SO BACK🥳 every 5 pages. honestly i don't even know what to say about the ending because it feels like there's so much going on but things just seem insanely grim. the only thing comforting me is the fact that i've finished 2 series by this duo now and if history (and the steadily increasing page count of ZA books) is reliable then i'm sure we will have a novella-sized epilogue by the time the final book comes out. i usually hate epilogues that long because they feel pointless and needlessly excessive but i think after all this suffering i will probably need it.
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Sexual content, Body horror, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Grief, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism
Minor: Abandonment, Car accident, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Death of parent, War, Infidelity, and Police brutality
student/teacher relationship, incarcerationselestre'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? N/A
5.0
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Torture, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Kidnapping, Medical content, Confinement, Grief, Self harm, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Gun violence, and Addiction
mj_86'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
4.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse
Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Car accident
sam019's review against another edition
5.0
I need to take a break and read a standalone or something because I'm too invested in these characters.
After taking a break by reading a couple standalones to mend my broken heart, I confirm I'm still obsessed and in love with this series, I just hate reading about the characters I adore being in so much pain ðŸ˜
Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse
juliette_95's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Torture, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Alcohol