Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

20 reviews

lilmor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.75

Couldn’t put it down. Yang writes with a deftness that reads so fluidly and leaves a reader clamoring for more without being sparse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Grief

lain_darko's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, Child death, War, and Blood

Minor: Medical content and Racism

ok7a's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Hate crime

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

4.5 ⭐️s. This one took a sec to get into, just because the writing is so next level. But once I got on a roll with it, it really shone. Gorgeous world-building, amazing characters, interesting gender dynamics. I felt like the pacing was spot on with this one as well. Will definitely be picking up the next one. 


Read for Beautifully Bookish Bethany's Tordotcomathon 2022

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury

orchidd's review

adventurous emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Medical trauma, Violence, Murder, War, and Child death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Pregnancy

adoto's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

I loved the world and lore in this book but I felt like I read a prologue rather than a complete story and had no opportunity to get invested. I wish I liked this enough to seek out the second book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, Gore, Child death, and Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

The book itself is not xenophobic, but there are clear real-world xenophobic parallels that I feel are worth mentioning, especially if you are South Asian or Middle-Eastern (I'm Indian myself). The book's treatment of these characters and these issues is absolutely fine. I had no problems reading it; just putting it out there in case someone might. The blood and gore mentions are very brief, contained within a few sentences, but occur multiple times during the book and are described graphically. Blood/gore invoke physical reactions in me and I was definitely affected by those parts in this book so be warned!

wayward_sara's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Beautiful story, I loved the writing and the time jumps. Also finally the ə in the italian language as a way to introduce neutral pronouns! Can't wait to read the other books.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

lucystolethesky's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Xenophobia

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Adult/minor relationship

sapphic_in_the_stacks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging fast-paced

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

4.0

Twin children of the Protector, Mokoya and Akeha, have always been treated more like pawns than people by their mother. The Protector governs half the world and rules with an iron fist. Mokoya has prophetic powers and is kept under tight watch by her mother, while Akeha has stronger control than most over elemental forces in the Slack. As they grow older, Akeha escapes the capital city, leaving Mokoya behind in the process. 

This book was a pleasant, if rushed, reading experience. Yang manages to cram an incredibly well developed story and unique world into a short novella. My one criticism is that, due to it's shorter length, some of the relationships development and emotional ties between the characters suffers. Though it's clear based on the timeline proposed that these characters have developed relationships over decades, we don't see enough of that relationship building and formation to create strong emotional attachments to the characters. This story could have easily doubled in length and still had plenty of material, but I did appreciate the writing and story as it was presented. Definitely looking forward to further installations. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: War