Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

29 reviews

dlsmk's review

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

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Bullying, Mental illness, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gaslighting, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Moderate: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, War, Genocide, Alcohol, Racism, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Confinement, Drug use, Classism, Excrement, Ableism, Cursing, Gore, Colonisation, Sexual content, and Slavery

mhairi_reads'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Torture, Animal cruelty, Death, Slavery, Body horror, Confinement, War, Genocide, Bullying, Cursing, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Blood, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Torture

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.75

my second favorite book of the series.
i loved basically everything about Heir of Fire, Celaena’s journey and development, Chaol’s inner struggle about where his loyalties actually lie, amazing new introduced characters and especially more magic content!!

i very much disliked everything surrounding Dorian and Sorsha, their POV chapters were so boring and absolutely pointless, she especially was such a dull and uninteresting character,

the only time i was interested in a scene with her in it was when she died.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Physical abuse, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Slavery, and War

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-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

2.5

This took me a bit longer to get through. I felt like I was missing out on Easter eggs and Celaena's past due to me not reading the prequel to the Throne of Glass series, The Assassin's Blade. So I stopped around 50% and listened to that audio.

Heir of fire is a rocky transition through the series, with so many new characters being thrown at you. Along with grasping people in Aelin's life merging with those in Celaena's life. 🥵 

it's REALLY overwhelming😭😓 Especially Rowan's transformation...I still have no idea when that went down and literally questioned if he was a new character😅😭🤦🏽‍♀️

Then on top of that,  there are sprinkles from Manon's perspective. Celaena killing one of the iron teeth witches elder's stirred their cauldron. I think she alone should have been a novella within the series..unless there is one...I'm tired just thinking about it. 

I do love her creature/dragon companion Axbraxtos and them learning to trust each other. 

It literally felt like I was thrown from the ToG world and projected to the iron teeth witches world.

All I can recall at the end is Celaena/Aelin reconnecting with her true self and declaring war as terresan's lost queen....it's A LOT. 

I'll probably take a break from this series to gather my bearings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, War, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Torture, Murder, and Physical abuse

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, War, Cannibalism, Confinement, Trafficking, Blood, Sexism, Misogyny, Mental illness, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Vomit, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Body horror, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Slavery, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

painausten314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Death, Genocide, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Violence, War, Blood, and Body horror

ninaevan's review

adventurous funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This one was slower than the rest... felt like a way to build up the next book rather than something that stands well on its own, but there’s never a dull moment in this series so I really can’t complain. I’m enjoying this world a lot!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, and Torture

Minor: Body horror, Colonisation, Excrement, and Vomit