Scan barcode
kbowles24's review
- 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
Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Drug use, Alcohol, Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Excrement, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Vomit
cynic_reader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Confinement, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Grief, Torture, and Violence
Minor: Classism, Bullying, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse
pages_with_panda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
I did like that the author put content warnings (and their locations) at the beginning of the book, and we're given another recap about the past two books.
The first half of the book was incredible slow and boring. We know at this point that the Bastardmaker and Imperator are misogynist assholes. What we didn't need was two super formal events where Lyr is forced to sit still and do nothing but stomach them. I feel like we got a lot of that from the last two books.
What I also thought would be interesting in this book was that we got a POV from Morgana - but unfortunately that was incredibly dull too and more of a way to add some backstory to make this book make sense. Her scenes felt like something added after the fact, especially with the twist at the end and yet added nothing beyond that.
Given how little information we were given during her POVs, I knew something was coming, but the twist that was added still felt completely out of nowhere and completely forced for shock value, different from the twist from the last book that at least had some lead up.
There was some scenes that grounded our characters that I never see in fantasy stories - like a woman period's being brought up which I thought was neat.
Between Morg's POV, and Lyr and Rhyan being a couple now, there were also plenty of spicy scenes. The author seemed to have written very specific scenes for fans, and then tried to tie a plot around them. There was definitely more action and fighting in the previous books.
The second half of the book seemed a bit faster paced, with super important things happen in less than one page, and yet we still somehow ended up with a cliffhanger that was frustrating.
I think if the previous books had been setup with half the information from this book and a lot of the boring, unnecessary scenes cut, we could've wrapped up the entire story in three books. I felt like more hints leading up to the twist would've helped a lot too.
I was super excited for this book and really let down. I think I'll get the next book because I'm curious to see how it wraps up, but not very enthusiastic for it.
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, and Confinement