Reviews tagging 'Gore'

A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout

25 reviews

headinthepages's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted 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

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

scutler's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Child death, and Child abuse

nirelcita'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

idk what people (booktok) are on about bashing the blood and ash & flesh and fire series’s. they’re blinded by acotar (which to be fair i have yet to read) these books im honestly obsessed with. i slurp them up like the best noodle soup money can buy. highly recommend reading the blood&ash series first. the only note i have is in the dialogue its a little too modern for my taste but thats just me being finicky. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Misogyny, Torture, and Violence

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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: Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

kateped's review

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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Torture, Gore, and Violence

hannalizzy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This book was great. At first, I was kinda peeved because the story felt like a carbon copy of Poppy and Casteel. But then, DADDY NYKTOS SUCKED ME IN. Omg I love him, I am SO excited to finally dive into War of Two Queens now that I’ve read this!! I feel primed and READY TO RUMBLEEEE YESSS

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gore, Death of parent, and Violence

theespressoedition's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

2.5

I thought, "Oh! This book is a spin-off from FBAA so maybe it'll be a little more interesting to me and it'll be different enough from the other books that I'll really enjoy it." Boy, was I wrong. THESE CHARACTERS ARE IDENTICAL.

Like - was there any point when JLA thought, "maybe I should give them different and unique personality traits?" Because Poppy is stabby and inquisitive. So therefore Sera is stabby and inquisitive. Poppy went off to have sex with randos to feel something. Sera went off to have sex with randos to feel something. I genuinely felt like I was reading FBAA all over again with different character names. The only difference? I somehow disliked Sera and Nyktos more than Poppy and Casteel. If they're the same characters, how is that possible? I don't know, it just is.

Someone noticed what I was reading when I was on vacation and said, "do you like your book?" I said, "no, not really." They said, "oh, well, does it at least have good writing?" I said, "no, definitely not." And they said, "why are you reading it then?" And I genuinely didn't have an answer. Why did I read this? Solely because I was hoping it would be a different formula than FBAA.

If you've read FBAA and are hoping for something new - THIS ISN'T IT. It even had the same pacing. Slow as molasses, repetitive as heck, and a super fast-paced and interesting ending with a MASSIVE reveal in the last few pages. I need something new. Stat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, and Toxic relationship

sarah_speaks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

This is just as good as From Blood and Ash…too much so. Sadly, A Shadow in the Ember is basically FBAA with new names for the characters; too many scenes and character dynamics are recycled. I'm still giving ASITE 4.5 stars, just as I gave FBAA 4.5 stars (both rounded up to 5 stars on Goodreads), because it really is an enjoyable read, especially if you haven't read the Blood and Ash series yet. However, ASITE is decidedly less enjoyable than FBAA due to its lack of originality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol

josxphinchen's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Blood, Death, Vomit, Violence, Torture, Murder, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Moderate: Violence

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A solid start to this spinoff series. Although some phrases like ‘lip curled’ need to be retired from being used so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders