Reviews

Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

ladydemonpenguin's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

yodamom's review against another edition

3.0

I am so confused, this had so little resemblance to the first book's characters. I'm going to rant. I am so disappointed I pushed this series onto all my friends.
What Didn't work for me- The first half of the book.
The first chapter set the story was a bitter pill for me. It was a horrible misrepresentation of these characters that I grew to love in book 1. It was hard to feel the love they had developed over a great time. How can I witness such nastiness/abuse and just accept it was okay ? What happened to her backbone, his respect ? I had thought there had to be a curse on them, changing them so completely. No. The scene made no sense, it did not develop the story in any way it was just thrown there.
Sex, I like sex, I like my characters to have fun sex. These strong characters were demoted to emotionally immature rabid rutting rabbits. They couldn't just hold hands, hug or make eye contact without rut rut rutting. Was the rutting sexy ? Maybe a couple of times but most was just "BADDA BADDA BING, oh me so horny, need you right now" no matter where or what was happening. It wasn't connecting, it distanced them from my care center. I started dreading hearing how her core was hot, wet, clenching....OH my gods aren't you sore yet ?
What happened ? I picked the first book as my #1 new author read of the year. There was a perfect balance it flowed. The book felt like it was written but somebody felt the need to throw sex in here there everywhere to make it sell ? Again- They didn't or feel natural to the story. I could have not read the first half and not missed much.
What worked- The last 1/4 of the book was action filled with the characters I grew to love. They had a job to do and they worked at it, bleed for it. The second half had some adventure, discoveries and godly gods of old. The side characters started to come back as the snarky fellows I grew to love. The ending was expected but it worked.
I'm giving it 3 stars for the second half of the story. Will I go on to book 3 ? I think so, it's not a sure thing right now.

karakaye1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

klbarnette's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.5

ciaraohara's review against another edition

2.0

Actually finished this ages ago oops!!  

I feel like if I was reading this while high it would have been unbelievable. However I’m sorry to say that I hated Griffin (he’s useless!) and just didn’t find the plot consistent enough. What was the need for a quickie after every fight scene? Made the plot feel so monotonous and predictable. There was literally no sexual tension at all for a romance novel. There were also so many plot points introduced that went absolutely nowhere? Why tf did they put sm effort into going after Ipotane? And what was the point of the Games? I do not understand, sorry. 

This books redeeming quality is that Amanda Bouchet is amazing at writing action scenes. The conflicts were so well written and are the only reason I am not rating this book 1/5. 

fairqueenanne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced

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

5.0

reb_t's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

sunny_r's review against another edition

5.0

Reread 1/21/20: ugh, I never know if I should take down stars upon rereading books and not liking them as much. I would give this at max a 4/5 now, but I remember reading this for the first time and feeing so overwhelmingly in love with the characters and the writing. Don’t get me wrong; Cat’s annoying, this book series takes deus ex machina to the literal next level and it’s SO annoying sometimes- but there’s something that keeps me hooked. I guess I’ll leave it at five then.

hebberelle's review against another edition

2.0

Meh. Without her being a total cow, now she's got no personality. Ohhhhhhhh and how about that ending where they announce what literally every woman reading this already knew in the first two chapters?
This book is like an epic parade of gods and monsters. Hey, they beat this monster after seriously 50 pages of description on the fighting. Next chapter, another monster to kill! Repeat at least 10 times.

avastras1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I love Cat, Griffen, and all of Beta Team. I love that this book had more fantasy world-building and battle scenes, it was a great complement to the romance of the first book. 

Would give this book 5 stars but someone had to make a character pregnant halfway through the series 🙃