Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout

78 reviews

dlsmk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Body shaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, Child death, Murder, Violence, and Death

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

gelslitreviews's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Murder, Violence, and War

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

Best filler book I've ever read 🫶🏻

Things we don't have: 

• plot

Things we do have:

• Sexual tension
• Lots of traveling (is there a "only one horse" trope?)
• Casteel once again murdering people for Poppy
• Weirdly sexual but hot scenes of Casteel drinking Poppy's blood
• Kieran and Casteel obvi being ready for a threesome
• Casteel caring for Poppy's wounds *sobs*
• yeah i think that's it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, Child death, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death

The rape tag is for a veryyy dubcon scene between Poppy & Casteel

booklover0804's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

meghan1111's review

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, War, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Child death, Physical abuse, Torture, and Slavery

ofmeganreads's review against another edition

It was too much yes and no. The I hate you and the Oh his eyes and that I want you. I don't like the sexual content. I always skip pages, but this just felt like horny characters that don't know how to control themselves and have a civilized conversation. Plus, the gruesome history of the kingdom is too much to handle. It just isn't a book for me and I normally enjoy fantasy novels with enemies to lovers. This book is a walking disaster of triggers that I couldn't continue reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, Blood, Body horror, War, Death of parent, Body shaming, Genocide, Child abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

romantasy_mama's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

Very well done. I loved seeing the progression of Poppy and Casteel's relationship.

When they finally admit their feelings to one another was everything.

I've read this twice, and would happily do so again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Minor: Physical abuse

references to threesome

butilikeit's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Blood, Death, Confinement, Violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape

mel_littleclarinet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

First of all, I absolutely love this book. But still, it was quite the roller coaster.
Half of the book was really repetitive, nothing actually happened and then, it all went so quickly and now I'm confused with the ending.

I really love the romance between Poppy and Hawke. It just didn't feel rushed like in other books, especially after

Hawke's betrayal towards Poppy. Poppy having to figure out her feelings and being in denial about loving someone that has so deeply misused her trust..

JLA has done an incredible job with their relationship and I have fallen in love with both of them.

The side characters - god they are amazing.
Many new characters are introduced in this book, and I especially love Kieran now. The banter between them all and new friendships developing was really great.

And Poppy finally being able to actually make friends, just felt amazing in itself. 

The plot itself didn't really move forward that much at first, in the second half, it started to pace up a bit and I'm really glad it did, because I had already started to wonder, if it was worth it to continue. 
Now at the end of the book, I'm left on a major cliffhanger and I'm already so excited for the next book.. which I luckily already have laying right next to me :)

In conclusion, it's a really good book, but some parts of it was just too slow-moving for me. I'm glad I didn't put it aside, and I hope the next one will now continue a bit quicker. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: War and Gaslighting

Minor: Confinement, War, and Injury/Injury detail

joyspringer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cursing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Murder