Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Heredera del Fuego by Sarah J. Maas

111 reviews

cathkk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

So good but definitely a world building book. Lots of interwoven plots and different POV. Last 150 pages are VERY fast paced and make up for the slow beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, War, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Body horror, Grief, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

The gore and death lies somewhere between a middle grade and adult fantasy novel.

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, Grief, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Animal death, and Torture

Minor: War and Colonisation

dwinn5's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

THIS is what I’ve been waiting for out of this series. I feel like Maas always hits it right on the head with the 2nd/3rd books in the series- probably because that’s when she really gets into the meat of it. I love Rowan! I think I was waiting for a character like him to show up- his interactions with Aelin and the other characters are just a lot more interesting than some of the central characters in the first 2 books. 
My main complaint is that a few of the POVs didn’t interest me enough from the beginning. It took me a while to care about Manon’s and Chaol/Dorian’s chapters, especially because not much was happening in the beginning. I ended up being surprisingly invested in Manon’s story (and I’m interested to see where the stories intersect), but in the beginning I kept wondering how it was directly relevant to the plot of this particular story. The end of the book really shone, and Dorian and Chaol’s POVs got infinitely more interesting (OMG), and I am really excited to see what comes in the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Grief

Moderate: Torture, Blood, and Death

bgay09'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I am absolutely loving the Throne of Glass series so far but Heir of Fire was so slow!!!! I’m not sure what it was, because I understood the necessity to further the story along but everything Chaol did annoyed me. His storyline is important and he drives the plot a lot but I could barley get through his chapters. I didn’t care for Dorian in this book, which sucked because he was my favorite male character. He seemed childish. Still love Aelin and her storyline and I love her character development. Rowan grew on me in this book and thank goodness because I didn’t want to not like him. Overall it’s just been my least favorite Sarah book so far.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, and Physical abuse

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-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

Rating: 5/5 stars.

Started a bit slow, but absolutely glorious by the end. Celaena was at her whiniest and most annoying for the first half, and I felt like the book stagnated slightly in the middle, but the payoffs at the end were all worth it by a mile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Torture and War

sierrabowers's review against another edition

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

4.0

This was the best book in the Throne of Glass series so far. I didn’t feel very connected to Celaena as a character until this book. After reading, I feel like I understand her more. I am also looking forward to reading the next book, since it left off with such a cliffhanger! I’m still not sure how Manon fits into the story just yet. I feel like all of the witches and parts with Bryaxis was for nothing??? I know it probably fits in later, I just don’t understand how yet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Classism, Gore, War, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

skillyillian'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Okay this is definitely my favorite throne of glass book so far. Strong character development, the overall series plot is really picking up, and the emotions are running high. I laughed. I gasped. I fucking sobbed. Especially during the second half of the book. I had to take a few breaks to just put it down and do something else for a few minutes.  

I did have some small problems with logic/continuity but that's not to say it won't be explained in the next one?? Most of it was probably just me being nitpicky though bc my husband is like that and I swear he's contagious. 

You can really see SJM coming into her writing style the further you get into the series. I love how she writes people falling in love. I'm doing the romantic reading so I'll be doing the assassin's blade next and I'm really excited to just be emotionally devastated as so many people have claimed. 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Mental illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, War, Blood, and Violence

imds's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Gore, War, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Colonisation, Death of parent, Genocide, Violence, Torture, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Death, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Incest

dlsmk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Child abuse, Child death, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

nicolastrouse's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

Minor: Slavery, Torture, Animal cruelty, and Death of parent