Reviews - City of Smoke and Brimstone

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224 reviews for:

City of Smoke and Brimstone

Kayla Edwards

4.4 AVERAGE

catfox13's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad 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

a_thurkettle's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

lyshreadsalatte's review against another edition

2.75

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

read_with_carlota's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

In book four of the House of Devils series, the stakes have never been higher.

This book is solely focused on survival.

The characters are going *through* it, both physically and emotionally as we see them struggling find their way back to their family, their friends, their loved ones and some sense of peace .

The best way to describe this book is how everyone feels in the last 100 pages of almost all fantasy books - It's how you feel all throughout this one. There is not a moment of rest. There is not a single breathing space. Everything feels dangerous and final. There were so many moments where I asked myself, how are they going to get out of this? Will they get out of this?

I think it's quite rare to find a series where there are multiple POVs and they are all equally interesting. I never found myself wanting to skip anyone's point POV -I was invested in all of them and all of the characters. I actually wish we even had more POVs because all the characters in this series are just amazing - they truly are the heart and soul of the books, and the relationships between them (romantic, friendship, family) are just so well done! I love how we get to see and explore the dynamics between the different couples, different siblings and the different houses!

I just wish we had had some answers regarding plot points that have been ongoing since book one but I think this really sets up everything for the next book, which I'm already dying to to read.

I know it's gonna be absolutely mind-blowing!

I can't wait to see how everything will unravel in the next book, specially after that ending!

(PS there has never been a character I hated as much as I hate Donovan Slade!!)