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linguisticfanatic's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Addiction and Sexual content
angelareads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Grief and Confinement
in_love_with_bookish's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
3.5
Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.
Okay, Fool Moon was fast-paced, action-packed, addictive, and thrilling but it wasn’t as good as the first book. And I’m totally okay with it not being as good because it still delivers awesome action and an entertaining dark adventure.
The book takes place months after Storm Front and it begins with Harry struggling to find work, mundane or supernatural. Things move along quickly when his expertise is needed because of a gruesome murder that has supernatural beings written all over it, with paw prints nonetheless.
It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job
The plot is smooth and engaging, the action kept me on my toes the whole time and the stakes were higher than ever. There are some new characters that brought more to the story and there are also the characters that we met in book one as well.
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
In this book, we learn more about Harry Magic and the things he’s capable of doing. We also understand more the dynamic between him and Murphy and it was actually tiresome to me. These two don’t work well, at least so far. He is annoying to her, She is surprisingly incompetent in her work with like keeping away the only person who can actually help her.
I still don’t like the way Jim Butcher writes his female characters and I don’t like the abundance of the description of how female characters look. I really hope it changes in the coming books because sometimes it’s just way too much to ignore.
So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby
But those final chapters, they were wild and tense and so well written. I just kept reading, couldn’t take a break, and was holding my breath. It was all madness and action and thrills. I loved the climax so much. It added way more to the story than any other element.
I’m definitely going to continue with the series. The tone is brilliant, the world is rich and the main character is fascinating. I can’t wait to see what the third book has to offer.
It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence
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