Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Iron Heart by Nina Varela

15 reviews

philmarie321's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, and War

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Similar to the first book in this series, I found the Iron Heart to be an enjoyable sapphic YA fantasy. It was light-hearted and pleasant. I found the writing to be somewhat weak, and the pacing to be odd (slow then rushed). There wasn’t enough spice for my taste (only a couple kisses), but I suppose that goes with the YA territory.

Spice level: 🌶/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Kidnapping, Racism, Trafficking, and Xenophobia

Minor: War

sandy_21's review

adventurous hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

Minor: Death of parent, Murder, and Emotional abuse

dododenise's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

Beautiful enemies-to-lovers (or rather enemies-to-lovers-to-betrayal-to-lovers) and beautiful world that made me want to discover more. The world building was so good and I loved the magic system.
But the characters are the highlight of this book. They’re all so interesting and I was fascinated by both main characters and the side characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Confinement

forthesanityof1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

Sequel to a quarantine read! I adored the first book and the second much the same. It took me a while to read this simply because of school, but I really, really love Crier as a character and the way the Automatae were created/exist. It's so seamless and smart and genuinely interesting to me as a reader; not really like anything else I've read before. I am immensely satisfied with the ending. At first I disliked the location of the thing they are seeking in this book, but the more I think about it the more I like it. I did have some issues with pacing--i would have liked just a little bit more, you know? But there are some absolutely beautiful lines from both Crier and Ayla that just too my breath away. I wish I could write with as much poignancy as this author. I would also lay down my life for the side characters, Hook and Erren especially. I highly, highly recommend this duology.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence