Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Crier's War by Nina Varela

18 reviews

raynearchv's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, War, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Slavery, Blood, Classism, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Drug use

piphux's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Death

Moderate: Murder, Gaslighting, Blood, Violence, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Self harm, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

 This book:

-made me so emotional that I screamed out loud at one point and cried during the end of the Acknowledgements

-was a learning experience that I personally should not read something without spoilers

-was a pageturner

-has a very exciting ending 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Hate crime, and Racism

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Death, Alcohol, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and War

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Classism, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, War, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Child abuse

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, Vomit, Torture, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Infertility, Self harm, Addiction, Sexual content, Excrement, and Suicidal thoughts

Discrimination and derogatory terms between in-universe factions. Self-injury for magical purposes.

wet_towlette's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

4.5

I am invested I want to read the next one immediately but it’s 1:45am so I must sleep. But tomorrow morning I will be starting iron heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Murder, and Slavery

mar's review

medium-paced

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

2.5

this book was kinda disappointing ngl but also the total one-sidedness of the enemies-to-lovers of it all was Extremely funny to me. crier was twirling her hair and going 🥺😍 ayla is soooo pretty i wonder if she likes me 🥰🥰🥰 and meanwhile ayla was thinking abt her brutal murder. unintentional comedy gold

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Murder, Death, and Child death

Minor: Sexual content

ashleighsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

i understand the hype!! Crier and Ayla not only make for a dynamic relationship, but they are both unique protagonists. the writing is so immersive and each character has their own story. the plot itself can get confusing at times, but that is because the characters are learning as we are. so many beautiful quotes as well. let’s get to that sequel!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, and War

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

strange_little_ranger's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Genocide, Gore, Violence, War, Classism, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, and Slavery

abby_shupe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful slow-paced

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

4.5

So I just saw the most beautiful and extensively written review for this amazing novel, by noahczerny so please listen to them because they put what Criers War is way better then I’m about to try to. 😭

The budding tension between Ayla and Crier was just amazing. Their entire dynamic, the dual POVs, and the glorious world building really all sucked me in. 

Ayla going back and forth, so uncertain and untrusting of the daughter of the sovereign - while also so obviously in love with her made the entire book.

I definitely think Iron Heart is the better of the duology, just because there are so many moments in this book that I didn’t get enough i information (yet), to piece everything together. In Iron Heart, almost everything blends together well and left me satisfied.

I love that a lot of the main characters in the story are good or bad, they’re both. Getting the opportunity to read so many character arcs, and following along as they find their footing was pure gold.

One of my favorite elements in the novel was Crier’s continued remembrance of queer stories. She kept thinking back to ones including a prince and a male commoner, and of course the one of Winter and her lover. It was a great touch on the author’s behalf, and really added a lot to the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Vomit