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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout
50 reviews
pagesofjean's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood
stardust_heidi's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
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
4.5
Love the characters and the story, even on my third go-around (when I'm leaving this review as I reread before book #4).
However, I'm not in love with JLA's lazy writing style and obsessive repetition of certain words/phrases. I also get thrown out with modern lingo like "mentally throat punching myself" and "throwing down" throughout the story. Does anyone edit or beta her books? Like...at all???
But I still rate it high, because the story is great, I love the characters, and the smut is hot. I'm easy to please.
However, I'm not in love with JLA's lazy writing style and obsessive repetition of certain words/phrases. I also get thrown out with modern lingo like "mentally throat punching myself" and "throwing down" throughout the story. Does anyone edit or beta her books? Like...at all???
But I still rate it high, because the story is great, I love the characters, and the smut is hot. I'm easy to please.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, War, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Blood
Moderate: Gore and Confinement
clapyourshands's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
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
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping, Cursing, Blood, Cannibalism, Confinement, Murder, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Classism, and Child death
pamvoss's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and War
abipereira's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
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
5.0
If I were not so busy with school, this book would have been finished in a day or two!
I don't know how she did it, but this was better than the first book. I was hooked from the beginning of the first sentence. I highly recommend that you purchase all books at one time because now I don't know what to do with myself.
I did have to read the last chapter twice... but thats on me; I stayed up until 4am to finish the book. LOL I suggest to stop reading when all the words are blending together.
I can't wait to read the next book!
I don't know how she did it, but this was better than the first book. I was hooked from the beginning of the first sentence. I highly recommend that you purchase all books at one time because now I don't know what to do with myself.
I did have to read the last chapter twice... but thats on me; I stayed up until 4am to finish the book. LOL I suggest to stop reading when all the words are blending together.
I can't wait to read the next book!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide
Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
Minor: Emotional abuse, War, Grief, Cursing, Bullying, and Blood
hannalizzy's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Half the book I was screaming at the main character in my head to get over herself and fall in love, and the other half I spent relishing in the SWEET GOODNESS OF HER ADMITTING IT! We get SO much world building in this book that give the characters and relationships so much depth and complexity. Because it’s so freaking long too, I feel like I know every thought that goes through their heads. I fell in love with each character so much more in this book because of that depth we get. And the ending? Jaw. Dropping. The best fantasy book I’ve read so far.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Violence
Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Torture, and War
Minor: Bullying, Child death, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
kellicat94's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War
Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Pregnancy
theespressoedition's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
While the first in this series didn't give me much to really ponder as I read, reading this one was a different experience. Rather than a quick pace and interesting plot that had me hooked enough to not get too fed up with the things I disliked, this one was slow and the substance wasn't very intriguing, leaving me with lots of time to get irritated with certain things along the way.
1. We get it - Poppy is violent. And she asks a lot of questions. These two things were repeated so many times that I think if you compiled each mention of them, they would comprise at least an eighth of the book.
2. Hawke is Casteel and Casteel is Hawke. And he's horny. Another repetition that drove me nuts. This would be another eighth of the book.
So now we have a quarter of the book just being statements about the characters that are repeated incessantly.
3. Suuuuper slooooow, drawn-out chapters where nothing happens, and then BAM! Majorly steamy sex scenes. It kind of threw me for a loop as I read because it was so back and forth and there didn't seem to be much of a rhythm.
4. Can someone explain to me why JLA likes to save the most interesting part of the plot until the last chapter? She did the same thing in the first book too! I get that there needs to be something to make you want to pick up the next book (and it worked because I totally will), but I just don't understand why this couldn't be brought in earlier or alluded to a bit better to drive up the anticipation.
One thing I did really appreciate was how they acknowledged the fact that their relationship was toxic from the jump. There wasn't any weaseling around the topic. They recognized the toxicity and they worked to communicate better from there on out. It wasn't perfect, but at least they didn't ignore the way they treated each other. While the violence is weirdly glorified, the actual "bully love" portion of it was tamed in this book.
I included the trigger warning for gore, but if you can't handle blood, you need to avoid this one entirely. It is disgustingly bloody and made me queasy on multiple occasions. Yikes!
I'm not the biggest fan of these kinds of books, and that's pretty obvious from this review, but I will say that I like it better than most of the "hyped" YA/NA fantasy series out there. At least it keeps me mostly interested!
1. We get it - Poppy is violent. And she asks a lot of questions. These two things were repeated so many times that I think if you compiled each mention of them, they would comprise at least an eighth of the book.
2. Hawke is Casteel and Casteel is Hawke. And he's horny. Another repetition that drove me nuts. This would be another eighth of the book.
So now we have a quarter of the book just being statements about the characters that are repeated incessantly.
3. Suuuuper slooooow, drawn-out chapters where nothing happens, and then BAM! Majorly steamy sex scenes. It kind of threw me for a loop as I read because it was so back and forth and there didn't seem to be much of a rhythm.
4. Can someone explain to me why JLA likes to save the most interesting part of the plot until the last chapter? She did the same thing in the first book too! I get that there needs to be something to make you want to pick up the next book (and it worked because I totally will), but I just don't understand why this couldn't be brought in earlier or alluded to a bit better to drive up the anticipation.
One thing I did really appreciate was how they acknowledged the fact that their relationship was toxic from the jump. There wasn't any weaseling around the topic. They recognized the toxicity and they worked to communicate better from there on out. It wasn't perfect, but at least they didn't ignore the way they treated each other. While the violence is weirdly glorified, the actual "bully love" portion of it was tamed in this book.
I included the trigger warning for gore, but if you can't handle blood, you need to avoid this one entirely. It is disgustingly bloody and made me queasy on multiple occasions. Yikes!
I'm not the biggest fan of these kinds of books, and that's pretty obvious from this review, but I will say that I like it better than most of the "hyped" YA/NA fantasy series out there. At least it keeps me mostly interested!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Cannibalism
michellemaas's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
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? Yes
5.0
First read: 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Second read: 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Third read: 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I wanted to shout it from the rooftops, but I am content with just typing it in this review: I LOVED this book!
Going into it, I was excited to read the book as I enjoyed the first installment in the series but I was quite frankly blown away. My main problem with the first book was that it dragged at the beginning and felt quite rushed at the end. A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire suffered from none of those pacing problems and was constantly moving quick enough that I didn't get bored, but slow enough that I was still able to comfortably follow what was happening. Another issue I had originally was with the world-building. I didn't understand most of the lore and that left me confused at times (especially during the end) but with this book, I was just in a nice rhythm where I was starting to understand the things that were unclear previously while not adding too many new worldbuilding type facts.
The story picks up directly after Hawke's announcement that he intends to marry Poppy and then deals with Poppy's adjustment to this new world while deepening her relationship with Hawke (who is no longer Hawke, I might add).
Going on to some more specifics, the romance was there, the humor was there, the action was there and ahhhh I just loved it. This may be my post-finishing-a-book-high doing the typing, but I just thought there really was a perfect amount of everything. I have always thought that you don't read a fantasy book to be enlightened or to appreciate "good writing". You read it for the escapism, to appreciate the creativity of another human, and to be entertained. I can honestly say that I was engrossed in the world and thoroughly entertained for the entire 639 pages and being that that's what I look for in a good fantasy book is why I think so highly of it.
Furthermore, Jennifer L. Armentrout has the power to bring my mind to a place that not many authors can. There was a scene in the book where the Ascended used the heads of Poppy and Casteel's friends as catapults and I do not remember being that thoroughly horrified while reading in a long time. I love that Jennifer L. Armentrout has the guts to describe both the sex scenes and the fighting scenes in all their gory, gruesome glory. I don't want to fill in the blanks because I've been told that they're "super bad people and that's why I should hate them". Give me a reason to actively root against the villain.
Lastly, I want to talk about Poppy and Casteel's relationship. I am a pretty dramatic person, but I'm not trying to be dramatic when I say that Poppy and Casteel's relationship may be the most realistic depiction of falling in love and learning to care for someone I have seen in all of the entertainment industry. Now that may be on the books I've read and the movies/shows I've watched but even if I had read every book and watched every show/movie I still don't think my opinion would change (much). Poppy and Casteel's relationship was messy and complicated, and really not because of some unnecessary and unwanted miscommunication trope but because of their circumstances, their choices, and who they are as people. I often see love portrayed as you fall for this person and it's never hard again. That gives people unrealistc expectations of love and life and is just really annoying. Love is scary and there will often be doubts and regret but you stick it out because the other person is worth it. The fact that both Poppy and Casteel can be described as morally grey characters is also very appealing to me as everyone has a different sense of right and wrong.
I cannot wait to reread this book in a couple of months, and until then I will recommend the series to anyone who will listen. It gives me such Game of Thrones X Twilight vibes (taking into account that I have never seen nor read either of those two) and I know that Jennifer L. Armentrout is going places.
Second read: 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Third read: 5 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I wanted to shout it from the rooftops, but I am content with just typing it in this review: I LOVED this book!
Going into it, I was excited to read the book as I enjoyed the first installment in the series but I was quite frankly blown away. My main problem with the first book was that it dragged at the beginning and felt quite rushed at the end. A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire suffered from none of those pacing problems and was constantly moving quick enough that I didn't get bored, but slow enough that I was still able to comfortably follow what was happening. Another issue I had originally was with the world-building. I didn't understand most of the lore and that left me confused at times (especially during the end) but with this book, I was just in a nice rhythm where I was starting to understand the things that were unclear previously while not adding too many new worldbuilding type facts.
The story picks up directly after Hawke's announcement that he intends to marry Poppy and then deals with Poppy's adjustment to this new world while deepening her relationship with Hawke (who is no longer Hawke, I might add).
Going on to some more specifics, the romance was there, the humor was there, the action was there and ahhhh I just loved it. This may be my post-finishing-a-book-high doing the typing, but I just thought there really was a perfect amount of everything. I have always thought that you don't read a fantasy book to be enlightened or to appreciate "good writing". You read it for the escapism, to appreciate the creativity of another human, and to be entertained. I can honestly say that I was engrossed in the world and thoroughly entertained for the entire 639 pages and being that that's what I look for in a good fantasy book is why I think so highly of it.
Furthermore, Jennifer L. Armentrout has the power to bring my mind to a place that not many authors can. There was a scene in the book where the Ascended used the heads of Poppy and Casteel's friends as catapults and I do not remember being that thoroughly horrified while reading in a long time. I love that Jennifer L. Armentrout has the guts to describe both the sex scenes and the fighting scenes in all their gory, gruesome glory. I don't want to fill in the blanks because I've been told that they're "super bad people and that's why I should hate them". Give me a reason to actively root against the villain.
Lastly, I want to talk about Poppy and Casteel's relationship. I am a pretty dramatic person, but I'm not trying to be dramatic when I say that Poppy and Casteel's relationship may be the most realistic depiction of falling in love and learning to care for someone I have seen in all of the entertainment industry. Now that may be on the books I've read and the movies/shows I've watched but even if I had read every book and watched every show/movie I still don't think my opinion would change (much). Poppy and Casteel's relationship was messy and complicated, and really not because of some unnecessary and unwanted miscommunication trope but because of their circumstances, their choices, and who they are as people. I often see love portrayed as you fall for this person and it's never hard again. That gives people unrealistc expectations of love and life and is just really annoying. Love is scary and there will often be doubts and regret but you stick it out because the other person is worth it. The fact that both Poppy and Casteel can be described as morally grey characters is also very appealing to me as everyone has a different sense of right and wrong.
I cannot wait to reread this book in a couple of months, and until then I will recommend the series to anyone who will listen. It gives me such Game of Thrones X Twilight vibes (taking into account that I have never seen nor read either of those two) and I know that Jennifer L. Armentrout is going places.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Child death, Murder, Cursing, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content
g_monaghan's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
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? Yes
4.0
Hot
Princess/ Guard Trope
Destiny
Us against the world
Dominant power play
Longing
Injury
Fantasy
Princess/ Guard Trope
Destiny
Us against the world
Dominant power play
Longing
Injury
Fantasy
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and War
Moderate: Body horror and Death of parent
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