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i honestly slightly liked Laia in book 1, but this book made her almost unbearable for me. she turned into this aspirant saint who always needs to save everyone and leave no one behind and i just hated it. it is such a dumb concept especially in a brutal fantasy world like this, it irritated me so much and i wish she could shut up about how “attractive and manly” both Elias and Keenan are and just… stop…
two complains i have about both this book and the previous one was the writing and the setting/descriptions.
the writing is once again too childish, focuses on the wrong things at the wrong times, and the way the characters narrate the story is just tiresome. the author has this way of shoving explanations down my throat of things EVERYONE CAN GUESS in a way that something happens and then Laia/Elias/Helene have to specifically explain it when it’s TOTALLY NOT NEEDED. you already guessed what happened but the narration HAS to point it it out for you so it felt repetitive without actually being repetitive.
and i’m sure the setting is amazing, if we only ever got descriptions of it. Elias and Laia are both traveling for most part of the book but the places they are in are never described, and i really wish they were. i cannot imagine how Serra is, how the houses in Serra are, how the market, the place where they go meet the tribes, the prison look like BECAUSE THERE ARE NO DESCRIPTIONS. we only get vague descriptions of characters, mostly repeating descriptions of characters that have already been described too many times. like yes, i did remember that Helene had blonde hair and Laia had golden eyes, thank you for pointing it out for the 10th time in this chapter.
Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Torture, Death of parent
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Classism
Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Torture
age rating: 14+
- an ember in the ashes ended with high stakes, and somehow this book ended with even higher ones. the drama keeps getting more and more, while still working in the context of the story. everything seems to work out and i love it!
- i. love. heleneeee! she has so much depth and was such an interesting character. she deserves so much better :(
- the characters were all great. all very interesting, with their own motivations and struggles.
- i didn't like tas at times. he just talked so <i>weird</i>. "rise elias vetrius" — what kind of ten-year-old talks like that?
Graphic: Genocide, Slavery, Violence
Moderate: Blood
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Slavery, Grief, Classism
Minor: Sexual content
Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Torture, Gaslighting
Moderate: Death
Minor: Rape, Sexual content
Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Violence, War
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery