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Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu

23 reviews

atsy6's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Yes

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I really enjoyed this romantasy. It had an interesting magic and gods system and interactions with the deities. I love that the FMC had shadows. The minor characters stood out yet there weren't so many that they were hard to keep track of. The audiobook was single narration but the narrator did a wonderful raspy male voice. I highly recommend the audiobook. I am looking forward to book 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

arcanewolf's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Blood

Minor: Child abuse

preciousanand1's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

mary_catherine's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Death of parent

cornyylynn's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War

erw's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping

mj_86's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault

jennipea382's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Sexual assault, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

bookrecsbyjess's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Thank you to Libro.fm and Random House of Canada for the ALC of Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu. All opinions are my own. 

This romantasy book had such an interesting world with magical powers like dream walking, which I found fascinating. I also loved the romance in this book. 

The book was easy to immerse myself in right from the very beginning. The magic system was complex enough to be interesting but not too hard to understand. I enjoyed seeing how the main character’s powers grew throughout the story as she learned to better use them. 

The romance had so much passion, and I liked how the characters grew to care for each other and look out for one another. 

The ending of this book was so wild and fast-paced that I didn’t want to stop reading. I also think it sets up for the sequel well because I really want to know what will happen next. 

I listened to the audiobook for this, and I loved the narrator. I thought she did an excellent job with all the different characters’ voices. I would recommend this format. 

Overall, I enjoyed this book and will continue with the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Kidnapping

dreyajavi's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 54%

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The idea behind the world was so cool and I was fully invested for about 1/3 of the book and then pacing, repetitive cliches, the most endless and mind numbing hate lust cycle between the MCs, and high school fanfic level dialogue just unraveled the spell of the very cool world that I wanted to see play out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail