Reviews tagging 'Death'

Heredera del Fuego by Sarah J. Maas

218 reviews

tabeahaefliger's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.25

It didn‘t quite give the 5 star feeling, 4.25 are feeling right tho 

Loved this a lot, we got to know so many new people (that were interesting and not annoying) and saw Aelin grow so much 😩🤌🏼 was amazing 

Also Rowan? Hell yes. 

Manon was sooo good to read about, idk but I ate those chapters up??? 

Getting me more and more into the whole TOG-world and I‘m starting to love the characters more from chapter to chapter 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

booksalacarte's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

First read (6/2022)- 3⭐️

Reread (1/2024)- 4.75⭐️ 1.75🌶️

New Adult Fantasy Romance

Book 3

Multi POV

Magic

Magical beasts

🏳️‍🌈 normative representation 

Tw: grief

This book not only sifts through Celaena’s grief, showing us the multifaceted growth of her character.

We are introduced to Manon, the 13, and what the witches are up to. I adore dragons/wyverns, so seeing the development of this side of the story was compelling, but also hefty in the back story and additional worldbuilding that is wrapped up in having a witch go from being mentioned, to being a critical part of the overarching plot.

Another introduction was Rowan, this old battered and dried up fae who helps train Aelin and her magic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Confinement, Genocide, War, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

carlyjoann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit

timbsy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, and Death

Minor: Slavery, Vomit, Blood, and Genocide

_charliesbooks_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Violence, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit

annamary54's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

i absolutely LOVED like chap 40ish to the end! the rest was very boring for me.

i really tried to care about Manon, and i had moments where i would get into the whole wyvern story. i know in the next books i’ll find out why her story is so important, but the fact that we’re just now following some rando witch is hard to grasp. i also thought the story line with dorian and sorscha was very forced. did i cry still? yes. it felt like she was just added to create character development for dorian. maybe if we were introduced to her way earlier in the story, like when they were getting healed in the past. or maybe even waited until next book to kill her, cause her development felt very rushed in the last few chapters she was in.

i did laugh and cry, and do my “i’m enjoying this” move where i set down the book and kinda have to talk to myself about whatever is emotionally hitting me.

the killing of all the slaves really got me. usually in books i don’t cry unless it’s about deaths of specific characters, but this was horrific. it’s also maybe me reading it with the timing of Palestine being in the news constantly that really got me emotional. thinking about something that horrific and realizing it’s literally happening to mostly children in real life. oof.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Vomit, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Incest

saralynn95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

absolutely a masterpiece, probably my favorite work from SJM and that’s really saying something

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Murder

Moderate: Death

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racism, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Slavery, and Violence

iloponis's review against another edition

4.5

i cried 3 times reading this book. i have nothing meaningful to say bc i need to start the next book this very moment goodbye

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Slavery

emmerylynn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This one was a bit slower than previous books, but the character development was *chefs kiss*. As per usual, SJM’s last 150 pages are a roller coaster of anxiety and intensity! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Grief, and War