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dkgreads's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content and Slavery
kaylaogle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death, Slavery, Torture, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail
moanareads's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Torture, Violence, Trafficking, and War
bem13's review
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
katvou's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
aklovekorn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
anaya_reads's review
- 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
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
charhollyx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Though I did like that we got to see more Sammerin and Moth, poor Moth. This book felt so much darker than the first which I did love.
For 600 pages, this book moved at a really speedy pace and got through a lot of unnecessary battle content which I appreciated. Wars can become tedious to read so this was perfect for me
1. I cannot believe they LEFT MAX???
2. I really liked the twists of the fae plotline, how it was set in the past with Aefe’s origin story before becoming Reshaye and the fae kings origin as her love interest before he was presumed dead and her taken, it puts an interesting spin on the third book as he becomes the villain
Graphic: Gore, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement
wickedgrumpy's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
2.25
The magic system is in shambles. What little of it you understood from the first book is extrapolated on a bit, but there's also some wishy-washy moments where the situation doesn't seem to make sense how things work as they have been presented. Also, what even are stratagrams really? They are predominantly used for travel, and binding magic, but then there's a necklace that has some charms with stratagrams that do other things and I'm just so confused by it all.
It honestly felt like this book had three separate endings, but contained only two parts. It was disjointed and the time and pacing were off. It was a bit of a slog to get through, especially when we would get reiterations of the same thing.
There was a bit of a murder spree situation where everyone started dying all of a sudden and I don't know if the foreshadowing was adequate or overdone and heavy-handed because I guessed some reveals quite early and it meant that the tension in the situation was lost.
There was a new POV right from the start. This is one of the things I guessed about from the start and so when the big reveal happened 500+/-ish pages later, I was underwhelmed. It seemed like it was meant to be a big build up with a bigger pay off but it fell short.
I'm debating not continuing and reading the last book in the series. The obsession with scent, and eyes/being seen, the bad grammar (so many sentences start with "But" that should not, regardless of whose POV it is), the made up nonsense swear words/exclaimations that are never explained, in addition to real swear words, etc..
At the end of the day, I don't know that I care to find out what happens next.
Edited to add a spoiler because I cannot handle it when books do this with sex scenes:
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism