Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent

3 reviews

spatterson7's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Alcohol

witcheep's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book had a very slow hook to it: it was hard for me to be interested enough to keep reading. Seems like I previously paused my reading just before things got interesting, though, since now I enjoyed the book well enough. 😅

I much prefer this Broadbent's standalone novel to her fantasy series, where I've enjoyed the first book just to be agonized to find the characters

in an even more perilous

situation in the prequel. I don't thrive in reading about constant suffering, and even though this book had plenty of that, there were enough lighter moments to balance them out. With this standalone, I can be happy that these characters have had their adventure (

even though they are promised to have an appearance in the Crowns of Nyaxia series

) and I'm content with how things turned out for them.

Previous DNF review:

I consider this book paused: I'll continue it some day (I bought it, so might as well), but seems that day isn't near yet. It has already been sitting unopened a couple of months since I first picked it up, so it can wait more. Maybe I'll be in the mood for this later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Slavery, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

hapalyn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury