569 reviews for:

Ashes of Man

Christopher Ruocchio

4.41 AVERAGE

faithers99's review

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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: No

falderol's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

dylanleneymusic's review

5.0

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Plot: 4.5

readingunderthecovers's review

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

dmsleeve's review

5.0

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I'm speechless.

josiah17's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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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Forget the normal coherent review. There are no words I can use to convey how empty I feel right now. I knew it was coming, I just knew it, and yet I was not ready in the slightest. I'm not sure how I read the last 60 pages through all the tears. Hard to think of a book that has evoked as much emotion as this one did just in that ending alone. Ruocchio...you are magnificent...but man...this book hurts.

"The ugliness of the world does not fade and pass away. Have I told you that? That fear and grief are not made less by time? All life is tragedy, for all life must end—and so no life grows stronger by its ending. Dorayaica was right about one thing. Time runs down into darkness. Even the stars burn out. And scars...there are scars that not even Death can wash away."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, War

Moderate: Sexual violence, Torture

corig's review

5.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

zlava's review

4.5

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

laquinta88's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

agenn's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No