Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

93 reviews

skyfluff's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Bullying, Death of parent, Gore, Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

lynx9010's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad 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

4.5

Absolutely loved it book. Only issue I had was

Violets constant complaining about trust every other page

it got annoying after while until it was resolved closer to the end of the book. But still it was worth the read.

I absolutely cried when Liam came back during the interrogation/torture scene. I cried in Fourth Wing when he died and then now his ghost is here helping Violet.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gaslighting, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

surayaauthor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Kidnapping

strixy16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Body horror, Cursing, Torture, War, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Death of parent

georgiaisreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Slow first half of the story - but paced amped up in the second half ! Can’t wait for the next book!

What a cliffhanger!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Torture, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent and Kidnapping

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Body shaming, Genocide, Medical content, Death, Abandonment, Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Classism, War, Chronic illness, Grief, Violence, Bullying, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Vomit, Xenophobia, Murder, Torture, Medical trauma, Ableism, Animal death, and Gaslighting

spaghettii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Murder, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Gore, Kidnapping, Blood, Drug use, Genocide, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, War, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

janchamp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Death, Violence, War, Torture, Animal death, and Grief

As part of training, students undergo faux kidnapping and torture.

Under suspicion, Violet is actually abducted and truly tortured by an enemy. She is healed and tortured repeatedly for days.

katikins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? No

5.0

Amazing, I can’t wait for the next one!! Going to start over and re-listen knowing what this book revealed about the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Violence, War, and Torture

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Blood

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-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? Yes

4.5

violet: xaden i can't do this if you keep keeping secrets from me
xaden: *proceeds to keep even more secrets from her*
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I know, I know, many of you hated the romance drama here but before I am a Romantasy or Fantasy girlie, I am a Romance girlie and lemme tell you, I LIVED for this

Xaden and Violet still love eachother so much and I know in my heart that they'll make it but I could still understand all their fights and disagreements and I could also understand Violet's perspective (even if many here seem to not 🙃). And their making up scenes were the best hihi

What I absolutely hated was the OW drama 🙅🏻‍♀ sooo unnecessary

I would've loved some more action from the start! Violet finds out there's a revolution, oh my god 😍 and then she...goes back to school? And then they all join the revolution! Fun! 🥳 And then...they have more school? Yeah, that's a thing readers have often complained about when books are set in a school but maybe there was a reason the school part wasn't always present 😭 It got boring so quickly. I still found it quite comforting (yeah I know, kinda weird) for some reason, just like book 1, but it was also boring (those things CAN coexist).

But once we get into the action and all the gryphon riders get important, too, I was so ready for it! Violet leaving Basgiath also sees her entering a whole new dimension of this war and the way it's going to impact the whole continent.

I still don't really understand the whole Darkwielder/Venin thing and its details but going by that ending we'll soon find out more 👀

The ending part before the ending (y'know) got a bit too messy for me and didn't have the emotional punch for me that it obviously had for Violet. Just couldn't feel that connection!

A connection I *could* feel was Mira & Violet <3 absolute highlight 🥹 (Brennan's a bit annoying though ngl)

No matter my few criticisms, I spent every minute I had listening to this book and I'm soo excited for the next one 🙏🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death and Drug use