Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

458 reviews

meaganb914's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Cursing

cat182's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense fast-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: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

chimirrilozano's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

aj9moon's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Cursing

cjfooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

A brilliant mix of dystopian YA and fantasy (think divergent in a game of thrones world) with war, training, magic, dragons, death and sex. 

A mostly loveable main character (which in YA/dystopian is hard to pull off sometimes - especially when they’re a head-strong proud character). 

In fact, all the characters are well defined and complex, and the plot(s) are cleverly woven, giving away the perfect amount of information at the perfect time. 

I definitely wasn’t expecting so much smut in this (there’s 2 fully explicit and long sex scenes in there) but it’s done well and doesn’t feel cheap or unnecessary. 

Occasionally, there are some lines that fall a bit short and feel cringey but the majority of interactions are witty, sexy and well-written. 

I really couldn’t put this book down. 

Would 100% recommend this and the only disappointing thing about it, is that it ended on a brilliant cliff-hanger, and, as I read it the year it came out, I doubt I’ll be reading the sequel any time soon. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Abandonment, and War

proudtobeabookaholic's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Welcome to Basgiath War College, where it's more likely you will die than graduate. 

Violet Sorrengail certainly has the odds against her. With a genetic disorder which, among other things, gives her loose joints and joint pain, she's already at a disadvantage. Preparing her whole life to be a scribe, not a dragon rider, doesn't make it easier. As the daughter of General Sorrengail there are many who want to see Violet dead. Especially Xaden Riorson, who's father was executed on her mother's order. When the General forces her daughter to become a dragon rider instead of a scribe everyone believes that she's signed her death sentence - including Violet herself. 

I've been reading this book for a long time. Not because it's bad, on the contrary, I didn't want it to end! I've made myself read it slowly, to stay in this world for as long as possible. I've even gone back to re-read some parts, and naturally I've read the bonus chapters from Xaden's POV that are available on the author's website. I've mostly seen positive reviews and I wholeheartedly agree!

There are of course different reasons for enjoying Fourth Wing, but these are some of mine:
- This is truly an enemies-to-lovers; it took me a long time to see how Violet and Xaden could become something other than enemies. 
- The dragons! The dialogues between the dragons and their riders are really special!
- Friendships; both new friends and old friendship that need revaluation. 
- The characters are interesting and with flaws. It makes me want to know more about them, and why they behave the way they do. 
- The world is rather uncomplicated and I can see why many inexperienced fantasy readers enjoy the book. 
- The feelings! I've been laughing out loud, as well as holding my breath. I've been oscillating between hope and despair, encouraging and sworn at the characters in my head, and sometimes sighed blissfully. 

I would love to continue with Iron Flame right away, but considering the insecurity of the third book's release I will wait a while. Let's see how long I'll manage...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

avacyn731's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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: Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and War

saskiahill's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

nickileal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

It was so hard to get into this book and took me a whole month to finish. Violet isn’t really the most loveable character. Also I was very tired of hearing how small and fragile she was repeatedly throughout the book. Riorson really saves this book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing

dreamerfreak's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail