Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

155 reviews

tiredtori's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Cannibalism, Torture, and Mental illness

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Kidnapping, Excrement, Hate crime, Animal death, Grief, Slavery, War, and Vomit

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

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

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

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

thehannahchapter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

a million stars this is a new comfort read & Aelin is a soul character for me. And I still have 4 books to go!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, and Mental illness

adrianah14's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

I believe this might be my favorite so far. Watching Celena work through her trauma was just as heartbreaking as it was cathartic. 
My only qualm, was the switch between POVs. It did throw me an off once in a while because I would be so invested in that current story and then I’d be swiped away to something else. I did think it helped paint the picture but man was this book good. I loved how SJM was also able to tie together so many small moments from the other books and Celena’s past to end with such a bang. It was truly a great book with wonderful character development, world-building, introduction to new characters and spaces, and overall the build up of this powerful enemy. Loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder