Reviews - On Wings of Blood

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On Wings of Blood

Briar Boleyn

3.85 AVERAGE

coraperry26's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

jbean3's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mpainter's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

amber_does_audio's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious 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: Yes

This book threw so many genres and tropes together that I was frustrated in Book One.... but then the characterization and plot and relationships were so good that I ended up mad about how much I liked it and how I'm actively looking forward to The Bond that Burns? Honestly this book shines in the way that it takes the dynamic between Medra and Blake and never disrespects it by glossing over their unique perspectives or watering them down. There are real consequences for decisions and actions, regardless of desires, and I respect the heck out of this book for that.

graceforester's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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

haylees_reads's review against another edition

4.0

4.5 ⭐️

This book has all the VIBES

Dragons
Vampires
Harry Potter
Fourth Wing
Hunger Games
A badass FMC

I’m so excited to jump into the next one! I need some backstory and to see where this is going to go.

fatedhearts_lorilee's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

I enjoyed listening to the audio for this one, though I would’ve loved if it had been done in duet.

I liked Medra, and that she stood up for herself and questioned things, and that she also acknowledged when she was becoming comfortable with her place at Bloodwing.

Definitely enjoyed Neville the Fluffin and also the found family.

I didn’t love Blake, but hopefully we get to see more of his POV next time. I did love how much he liked the Fluffin.

Spoilers coming up:

I do wish that we could’ve spent more time with Blake so that we could’ve seen his perspective of things more clearly. He overall seems fairly complacent and I don’t know how I feel about that, considering how awfully the vampires view humans.

From their name for humans (blight born) to their control over them to make humans complacent… including the blood maiden in the ceremony. The way they completely destroyed Naveen and made him into this humanoid monster… I did not expect what happened to Naveen. That definitely rattled me a bit. Poor Naveen!

I felt like throughout the book, Blake kept thinking about how Medra *wasn’t like other girls*. Which I get, she’s special and she’s a dragon rider but also, it was a bit much.

I really didn’t like the end when Blake told Medra he’d tricked her into the blood bond and he’d die if she didn’t let him drink from her. It was so manipulative and then to make matters worse, when she clearly continued to say no, he just forced it on her. From her POV we could tell that it wasn’t a situation where she really did want to, and was just trying to make a point. It seemed like she really did not want that to happen.

All that said, I did still have fun reading it and will read the next one.