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jacinderr's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Death of parent and Child death
Minor: Homophobia
There was like a gentle reminder that some people were homophobic and that was just so funny to me like ??? What’s with the lore here LMAO just let the girlies be gaysophieissapphhic's review against another edition
3.5
- This book expanded on the Avatar Universe so well!! This was worth the read for the worldbuilding alone.
- I liked the character relationships! They were developed well.
- Be gay, do crime.
- I disliked the inconsistent pacing. In the beginning, it dragged, and the other two thirds of the book felt all over the place pace-wise.
Content Warnings: violence, death, child death, parental abandonment, body horror (teeth horror; brief), fire & fire-related injuries, blood, grief, alcohol consumption
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Death, Grief, Violence, and Child death
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Alcohol and Body horror
aexileigh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and War
Moderate: Child death and Racism
Minor: Homophobia
hayleyvem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Bullying, Death, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Death of parent, Medical content, and Gaslighting
bookcaptivated's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Child death, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
Minor: Death of parent, Abandonment, Genocide, Gore, Grief, and Torture
piratesandpixiedust's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death and Murder
Moderate: Child death and Blood
wrensandroses's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Violence, and Murder
fiveredhens's review against another edition
- 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
The faint, flowery scent that filled Kyoshi's lungs made her head swim and her pulse quicken. Kyoshi kept still like it was her life's calling, unwilling to make any motion that might disturb her friend's fitful slumber.
Eventually Rangi fell into a deep sleep, radiating warmth like a little glowing coal in the hearth. Kyoshi realized that comforting her throughout the night was both an honor and a torture she wouldn't have traded for anything in the world.
Kyoshi closed her eyes. She did her best to ignore the pain of her arm losing circulation and her heart falling into a pile of ribbons.
With their eyes on each other, it was easy to be brave. Maybe that's the only way we get through this, Kyoshi thought. Just never look away.
Relief came like a monsoon. She did not have to meet them. She didn't have to discover what kind of person she was when the past unearthed itself and took solid form.
"Survival training at the academy," Rangi said, breaking a bone with her fingers to get at the marrow. "We learned to accept whatever food we could find in the wild."
"I used to eat garbage," Kyoshi said.
They look at themselves like forces of nature, as inevitable ends, but they're not. Their depth is as false as the shoals at low tide. They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience. ...
They're humans like us, made of skin and guts and pain. They need to be reminded of that fact.
this could get a little boring and too gritty for me but it was definitely the first post-a:tla canon work that i've really enjoyed. i think it did the setting justice
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fatphobia, Grief, and Racism
rosita's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Kyoshi really said be queer do crime, and i love her for that.
Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, and Torture
fungivibes's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Blood and Murder
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Death of parent