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Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

70 reviews

liesthemoontells's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

My favourite entry in the series so far. The fantasy and worldbuilding is much more mature than in the first two books. While the pacing sometimes faltered a little bit with the array of characters going back and forward, the widened scope and perspective was welcome.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Child abuse, Murder, Toxic friendship, Torture, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, War, Death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Minor: Slavery and Vomit

stressedoutreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Torture, and Slavery

Minor: Vomit

oxfordcommas91's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This series really hit its stride with “Heir of Fire.” I think I was intrigued but not fully sold on Throne of Glass until this book, but HoF is immensely satisfying and weaves together a lot of interesting,  it seemingly disconnected, storylines. I’m curious to see how things will continue to develop as this book also did a lot of set up for some major battles to come. HoF definitely had its slow moments, but interspersed with some good action, as well. I do think that the majority of this book is setting the stage for bigger things, and it did so well. I love how you’re getting to see all the characters develop.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Vomit

emsavors's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Animal death, Torture, Vomit, Body horror, Gore, War, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, and Violence

millie_p's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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

5.0

i’m not sure if there r words to describe how much i enjoyed reading this book. i loved to see Celaenas journey as she heals from such an immense loss. i also loved seeing her relationship with Rowan evolve, the banter was amazing. they to me feel like yin and yang, opposite attract kind of connection and i can’t wait to see more of them as the books go on. 

This book was so beautifully written and the process she went to to find her magic and finally feel some sense of peace with her self was so inspiring. i loved seeing the healing process to me it was the definition of the journey being greater than the destination. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Death

Minor: Vomit and Suicidal thoughts

peachtease's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

If there was an award for a character vomiting, I think I know who would win. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Death of parent

becky_anne7's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Vomit

notamouse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, War, Death, Genocide, Gore, Incest, Suicide attempt, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

hrobles1009's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Violence, Vomit, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

lacuion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

One thing SJM knows how to do is write an insufferable character with one hell of a redemption. Celaena has been through a lot of pain and strife, but her being mean to Emry’s and Luca was pissing me off. Her getting on her knees and begging forgiveness was the only way for me to not be totally done with her.

Her relationship with Rowan was weird. They’re cousins and she was noticing his “muscled back.” When she was getting overheated at the spring festival and he gave her some air she “moaned with relief” like girl…what in the sweet home Alabama is going on??? I hope that’s where the weirdness stops with them two.

Chaol was trying to play both sides but luckily he chose right in the end. 

The king is a bastard and for him to do that to Dorian in the end and how he did Sorcha??? That was crazy. He needs to burn in hell.

Maeve was annoying and she lost Rowan so…yay I guess. And she knew to surround herself in water incase a descendant of Brannon came back but Aelin showed her just how useless that was.

When the Valg princes feasted on Celaena’s fear and then her family surrounded her saying, “Get up” I was literally crying. Such a beautiful moment. 

I hope Aedion is ok because THAT last scene was nuts. Arobynn better NOT give Celaena any problems when she ask for her necklace back…but he’s a monster so I know he will. 

Now Manon’s storyline…I won’t say which book and author [allegedly] stole directly from this bar for bar…but it was VERY similar to one of my favorite series and that was a little disheartening. This new series damn near went bar for bar down to the war games, wyvern, communicating with your wyvern, Imogen, Manon wanting the strongest one but then getting the weakest one(but not really weak), her motherly figure being a complete asshole…it was a bit much for me. The witches are really cut throat and I personally just wanted to get back to Celaena or Dorians storyline the entire time. It was a lot of POV jumping and that was annoying but…this is a long and well thought out series so I’m sure everything will tie together seamlessly. 

But…I will say that the Cochran witch made Manon open her eyes to the person that she was; so it’ll be fun to explore that in the next book. 

I’m excited to get through the SJM universe, still. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Grief, Vomit, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Violence, Genocide, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood