Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Душа от пепел и кръв by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Дженифър Л. Арментраут

19 reviews

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous informative slow-paced

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

1.0

I thought this was the final book of this series and yet it wasn’t, and it wasn’t needed. If I wanted to re-read the first book, I would have re-read the first book.  

This book is based on Cas and after the battle, the fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come. But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could take her away from him. Cas is given some advice though – something he plans to cling to as he waits to see her beautiful eyes open once more: Talk to her. And so, he does. He reminds Poppy how their journey began, revealing things about himself that only Kieran knew in the process. But it’s anyone’s guess when she’ll wake or how much of the realm and Cas will have changed when she does. 

This book just wasn’t needed in the slightest, the author could have cut down the first book and do it as dual POV, but my patience with this series is getting thinner and thinner. I was hoping this would be the end, but it was a complete money-grab. It was like the author was being pushed by her manager, editor someone from her team to get a book out from this series in 2023 and she found a draft or an early idea of making the first book with either dual POV or with Cas’s point of view and decided to run with it whilst Poppy is asleep and threatening memory loss. However, we don’t have memory loss, so I didn’t care for it. I didn’t particularly enjoy the first book from Poppy’s point of view never mind Cas’s. From the twelve chapters that we get in the present, it is just Cas and Kieran being concerned for Poppy and being like “hahaha yeah you remember that”, i thought she was going to kill me and things like that. We don’t find out any new information or if Poppy will remember everything.  

This book felt like a way to justify things that had happened in the series so far because why on earth was Cas watching Kieran having sex with another girl at the Red Pearl and then being so defensive if someone even looks at Poppy the wrong way but was imagining and wanting Kieran to have sex with her before he did. I feel so bad for Kieran and just want him to have his own heartmate instead of being a plaything to Cas and Poppy.  

This series will end well, if they all die besides Kieran and Tawny.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Physical abuse, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, and Death of parent

zomigi's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

I quite liked getting to read Casteel's POV of the first book, and I think Jennifer did a good job explaining where some of his seemingly inconsistent reactions came from. Plus, the sexual tension between Poppy and Casteel is so delicious that it's always fun to read it again. That being said, the info dumping is still a problem, especially in a book like this that is mostly a rehash of what we've already read. Oh and I definitely did not need the zombie baby, thanks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Kidnapping

Minor: Physical abuse and Sexual violence

chi__'s review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and War

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Was this simply a money grab and place holder? Yes. Did I love it anyways? Pretty much. I figured this would be the perfect thing to get me out of a reading slump because it was both an old and new book. It took a bit for me to get into but the story dragged me back in all over again. Might just read FBAA next to see whose POV I like more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death

nonotyoshi's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Even though a lot of the book is ‘repetitive’, it’s fun revisiting the story from Casteel’s pov

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Medical trauma

mykingdomforabookworthreading's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

selestre's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Classism

coris_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

Minor: War

mabs_grace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

2.75

I’m going to be honest, I don’t really see the point of this being the 5th instalment of the series. A novella? Sure, but a whole ass that’s just the first book from Cas’s POV seems pointless.  There were only like 7 chapters in the present, the rest was flashback to book 1. It feels like the book didn’t move the plot forward at all. This should have been a .5 book (4.5) not a full book (5). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

abicaro17's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

2.0

This was tortuous. So goddamm slow and boring. Almost everything in here is part of the first book and she we already knew. I was pulling my hair out and skimming shit bc fuck this. This made me hate Cas a little because he clearly knew what would happen if he slept with her before she knew the truth too. Even Kieran did! That said, the scenes that are new (present day stuff, scenes where Cas was separated from Poppy, and the pre-Poppy stuff) were interesting, funny, and pretty sick. I wish thus was a novella with just the 150 pages of new stuff. I would have given it a 3.5-4 but everything else makes this book burnable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism