Reviews tagging 'War'

Ruthless Fae by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

10 reviews

yarisbooksandbevs's review

emotional funny sad medium-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

I loved seeing the girls fight back! Their form of revenge is so smart and good. Lots of relationships starting to form and develop and I think this is the beginnings of characters starting to understand each other. Absolutely unhinged and I loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, and Death

Minor: War and Murder

autumnwitch14's review

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, War, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Classism

Minor: Blood, Death, Child abuse, and Abandonment

Sacrificial rituals

nineinchnails's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

going to try to keep this spoiler free but i don't have much to say about the writing that i didn't already say in my review of the awakening so it'll be pretty short. we get some chapters in the guys' pov and while stuff was hinted at in the first book the chapters provide more insight into the other characters and there was more focus on them + their motivations than before! this book also developed + focused on nymphs more and the girls are starting to settle in and even evolve imo. geraldine gets some more 'screentime' here and i'm obsessed even if there isn't much more development for her yet since she's starting to grow closer to the girls regardless.

i usually hate action scenes (especially in books) because i find them terribly boring and redundant but the last 10% had me biting my nails on the edge of my seat. ngl i can't wait to start the 3rd book because it left off at such a crazy place but i have been advised it's better to read the prequel first💔 also i'm sure i'm supposed to hate max but i just can't i love (fictional) male manipulators and his antics are endearing to me i wish he had more focus 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Gore, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death, War, Child abuse, and Grief

dubcon

mj_86's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Sexual content, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Child abuse, Alcohol, and War

ifoundcallie's review

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcohol, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Car accident, Alcoholism, Excrement, Pedophilia, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Cursing, and Murder

lots of crude references to beastiality (kind of? So mythical creatures count? Lol)

lexilovesbooks's review

adventurous dark funny 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

A huge improvement from book one! We have more character development and a good plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and War

allielong19's review

dark emotional tense medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Sexual content, Violence, and Death

midnacine's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I definitely liked this more than the first book, but I gave it the same rating cuz I just couldn't bring myself to give it four stars. I took a break from reading it about halfway through to focus on my book club books, but man that last third really goes by in a whirlwind. It's nice to see the twins finally developing their own personalities and discover themselves as Fae, but it's equally as nice to see the Heirs get a taste of their own medicine. Looking forward to the next one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Sexual content, Bullying, Cursing, Violence, and Classism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, War, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death, Infidelity, and Murder

briochebun's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

4 out of 5 ☆’s.

”It didn’t matter that I hated him and he hated me, in that moment it was only us and them. And I couldn’t bear to let them take him.”

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Diving back into this world again and  getting to see the outcome of the events that unfolded in ”The Awakening” was such a fun experience! 

I loved getting to see Tory and Darcy gain some more footing in Solaria — stating that they’re starting to see it as their home, etc. — as well as seeing their continued attempts at harnessing their powers. 

(I’m glad that the authors of the series are making this a gradual process for the sisters — rather than having Tory and Darcy arrive at ZA and instantly being able to beat everyone to a pulp…) 

I also enjoyed seeing Orion and Darcy’s relationship develop a bit more in this novel…I’m such a sucker for them! 

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I’m sooo excited to begin “The Reckoning“! :)

P.S. Orion is still my number one. ♡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: War

crinkledmochi's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

again im just reading this for a good time lmao… also these books are kinda long for no reason like the first half to middle is barely any plot and all the action and good stuff is at the end which is understandable but there’s too much exposition. 

also can we talk about the tokenism of diego… 

and the fact that this series lacks diversity when there’s so many species of fae ??? there’s one poc in this whole series and he’s a bad guy (max rigel), the vega twins and diego are latine but they’re white so does that even count,,,

let’s also mention the fact that lance is like 26 and darcy is 18… at least tory is flirting with people her age not that it makes it any better cause she has terrible taste (abusers).  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Gaslighting, Grief, Body shaming, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Excrement, Incest, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and War

Minor: Alcoholism