mads_reads_books 's review for:

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-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

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I loved a lot of pieces of this book, but as a whole it’s got to be one of my least favorite SJM books. It’s messy and chaotic and there’s just a lot of things that didn’t add anything to the story. I was disappointed by it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism