Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Awakening by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

60 reviews

milla_b's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

This is my first proper adventure into bully romance (The cruel prince was a toe in the water) and parts were a bit tough to swallow. I am curious to see how the relationships play out and how they move on especially after the the events book 1 left off from. 

Things I liked: 
• the storyline- really want to know more. And there’s a huge world that you’re being introduced to and I can’t help but want to know more about it beyond the Acadamy. 
• I like the characters and especially the twins 
• I’m on the fence about the Heirs, but not in the way that I don’t want to read about them, because I clearly have a thing for morally questionable characters….. 

Things that bugged me (but not enough to put me off):
• some of the writing, past and present tense. Some minor grammar errors and I think American idioms…..  idioms are not deal breakers but some are just personally a tad annoying for me. 

Overall I enjoyed it and will continue the series. Read it yourself and make up your own mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Cursing and Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, and Abandonment

celine_engel8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Bullying

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Alcoholism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

1navn's review

adventurous dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Torture, Confinement, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury

ifoundcallie's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Car accident, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Torture, Stalking, Incest, and Vomit

hannahwriightt's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Bullying

Moderate: Murder, Sexual content, and Incest

Minor: Body shaming and Car accident

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual content, Stalking, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, Bullying, Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence

faduma's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, Drug abuse, Torture, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Stalking, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Alcohol

Minor: Murder, Pedophilia, and Infidelity

micaelamariem's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Liked this and hated that I liked it because of all the er ethical considerations. And everyone makes me mad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Cursing, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Sexism, and Sexual content

dkgreads's review

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

I’ve been putting off reading this series until closer to the time that the next (and what I thought was the last) book is released, but I finally caved and I’m glad that I did! I really liked the concept and world building and magic system. I was annoyed with all the “you really don’t know anything about this world, do you” followed by cruel acts to emphasize the point, though. Like, how are the twins supposed to learn anything if no one will tell them what they need to know?! Gah! I’m pretty excited to move forward and see what their Orders are and see how badass they become once they can properly wield their powers. The Heirs better watch out, is all I’m saying. Especially after that bullsh*t there at the end. They totes deserve whatever they have coming for them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Bullying, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, and Sexual content