Reviews tagging 'Death'

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

192 reviews

scarlett_f's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, War, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

emilywemily6's review

adventurous hopeful 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

5.0

Amazing!! I devoured this book and I can’t wait for the next one. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I thoroughly enjoyed following every perspective and am so excited to see where these characters go from here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, War, Violence, Animal death, Torture, Death, Grief, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Murder, Child death, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content and Medical content

merrow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious slow-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

4.5

I always like the point where a YA series turns from adventures to a desperate fight for freedom, and this book is no exception.

Quite the tragic turn of events at the end, but they set up for some potentially good ways out.

The first half is a bit frustrating as the focus is placed on rebuilding and crumbling over and over again for the main character, but it finds its direction very well for the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Self harm, Slavery, Abandonment, Body horror, Deadnaming, and Torture

stripy_gloves's review

adventurous emotional sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Death

clarenotabear's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Slavery

anguawolf's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Death, Torture, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Emotional abuse, Blood, Hate crime, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Self harm, Slavery, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug abuse

Minor: Bullying and Panic attacks/disorders

maddymoiselle's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

The variety of POVs, the sudden change to immediate action throughout all of the characters, and the major reveals make this the book where the TOG series really takes off. I laughed, I gasped, and I cried. This book made me realize that this may become a top series for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

ladypalutena's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

This is the first book in the series where I found myself caring slightly about Celaena, even though she spends the majority of the book being insufferable. It isn't until about 2/3 of the way through that she has a breakthrough and finds herself making progress in her life. 

Having said that, I still found everyone else's stories much more interesting than Celaena's.  I'm a fan of Aedion, and the witches were a great side plot to read. 

Some of Celaena's flashback scenes were tough/emotional to read, but in the end, she gets where she needs to go. Mostly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Moderate: Slavery and War

ellenwm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Very worth getting through the second book to enjoy this one! The threads weave together wonderfully in this world as the history and current machinations come together. We (finally) get a lot of character development from our favs, and a lot less annoyingly clunky exposition from a ghost queen and a door knocker from Queens. Rowan is obviously the high point. In a genre littered with hot/brooding/grumpy teachers paired with tiny/mouthy/stubborn women training their wild power, Rowan and Aelin’s growing relationship strikes a great balance. There’s tension, but more importantly there’s trust.

I really appreciated that this book dialed down the romance a bit.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Suicide, Death, and War

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Torture, War, Murder, Physical abuse, and Slavery