uglytrashcanbill 's review for:

For Whom The Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Complicated

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Spoilers if you haven’t watched hells belle’s on tiktok so be wary oh my god the last 2 pages are killing me. I was waiting on bated breath for penny’s intro to come in and finally on the second to last page a red sweatshirt is mention and i just knew and oh my god now i will wait on bated breath for penny and gregs book and hopefully after that ruggy and angels. This book was wonderfully written and easily my favorite book of the entire year. Keep doing what you’re doing Jaysea, i can tell you it’s working!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, Religious bigotry, War

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail

The sexual assault violence and religious bigotry is not done from one main character to their love interest or vice versa, they’re things that happened in the fmcs most recent past life. As for the war the mmc is a general of 85 legions and as the book is dual pov you do get quite a bit of gory details about the war that happens.