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potalian's review against another edition
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent
maryrosem's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
The first half contained a lot of events back to back with some time hops. That part felt like it advanced very quickly, which made normal-paced the second half feel a bit slow at times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, and War
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
kingjk2002's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
If you don't like mentions of height you will be annoyed and they mention eye color every 5 seconds
Its litetally just a personal ick for me but the whole he's so big and tall and she's so slender and small thing just gives me the ick now it makes me think he sees her as a child also I get it his eyes are blue and her hair is auburn brown you don't need to remind me every 5 pages
Its litetally just a personal ick for me but the whole he's so big and tall and she's so slender and small thing just gives me the ick now it makes me think he sees her as a child also I get it his eyes are blue and her hair is auburn brown you don't need to remind me every 5 pages
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Blood, Abandonment, and War
teri_b's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
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
I was curious about this book. Firstly, because of the cover and the storm respectively the Hurricane it promised in the title. Secondly, because of the mixed reviews this book had gotten even before it was published and I was wondering where my own reading tastes would land.
Interestingly enough, I loved & still love this book a couple of months after I read it and am excited to see how the story ends in its sequel.
The Hurricane Wars does have excitement in it, a lot of tragic & wars & unanswered questions and magic is stirring, even though yet not fully revealed.
At the beginning we find ourselves in a war setting that then changes to the machinations of a highly evolved & politically divided court and in which the female main character has got to find her way as well as figuring out her feelings for this prince of the Night Empire whom she first met on the battle fields and now has to deal with in the political machinations of their nations fighting for prevalence and/or survival over each other.
The world is richly built, and specially, in the second part we start to see more parts of this world that is amazingly rich & diverse.
And now I cannot really wait until the second book is out, because I simply would like to know how it all ends and how this new threat that arose is being met, and, of course, will they or won't they & will there be a happy ever after?
Interestingly enough, I loved & still love this book a couple of months after I read it and am excited to see how the story ends in its sequel.
The Hurricane Wars does have excitement in it, a lot of tragic & wars & unanswered questions and magic is stirring, even though yet not fully revealed.
At the beginning we find ourselves in a war setting that then changes to the machinations of a highly evolved & politically divided court and in which the female main character has got to find her way as well as figuring out her feelings for this prince of the Night Empire whom she first met on the battle fields and now has to deal with in the political machinations of their nations fighting for prevalence and/or survival over each other.
The world is richly built, and specially, in the second part we start to see more parts of this world that is amazingly rich & diverse.
And now I cannot really wait until the second book is out, because I simply would like to know how it all ends and how this new threat that arose is being met, and, of course, will they or won't they & will there be a happy ever after?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Blood, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Death of parent
booksthatburn's review against another edition
Lots of infodumping.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War
Minor: Child abuse
zluvsreading's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Second read:
Infinity stars still. ♾️
Is there any way I will ever get over this book? No! Absolutely not!
There’s just something about this book that really like gets to me? Makes me feel things? And just is so great.
I’ve seen quite a bit of reviews where people feel as if the beginning is rough to get through, but I surprisingly did not have that issue??? Maybe I was just reading and not comprehending but NO I think it was easy for me to get through.
Maybe because I was reading it with the hardcover along with the audiobook? (10/10 recommend this method btw)
Idk, but this book just makes me so full. It fills a part of my heart that felt empty before.
First and foremost, this is about war and death and all things vile. It’s easy to see that Kesath is the enemy and the Night Empire is bad. They are wiping everyone out and that’s that.
Nenavar is like the youngest child, not wanting to get involved in the affairs of the oldest and middle child fights, in my opinion. Switzerland if that’s a better comparison.
This book deals with some heavy topics, but also has some romance interlaced in it as well, which I enjoyed.
It’s the sort of romance that rips your heart out and makes you want to sob, but romance all the same.
The relationship between Talasyn and Alaric is very strained, as expected when fighting on opposite sides of war. They represent everything they’ve been raised to hate.
However, like it’s said in the book,
Infinity stars still. ♾️
Is there any way I will ever get over this book? No! Absolutely not!
There’s just something about this book that really like gets to me? Makes me feel things? And just is so great.
I’ve seen quite a bit of reviews where people feel as if the beginning is rough to get through, but I surprisingly did not have that issue??? Maybe I was just reading and not comprehending but NO I think it was easy for me to get through.
Maybe because I was reading it with the hardcover along with the audiobook? (10/10 recommend this method btw)
Idk, but this book just makes me so full. It fills a part of my heart that felt empty before.
First and foremost, this is about war and death and all things vile. It’s easy to see that Kesath is the enemy and the Night Empire is bad. They are wiping everyone out and that’s that.
Nenavar is like the youngest child, not wanting to get involved in the affairs of the oldest and middle child fights, in my opinion. Switzerland if that’s a better comparison.
This book deals with some heavy topics, but also has some romance interlaced in it as well, which I enjoyed.
It’s the sort of romance that rips your heart out and makes you want to sob, but romance all the same.
The relationship between Talasyn and Alaric is very strained, as expected when fighting on opposite sides of war. They represent everything they’ve been raised to hate.
However, like it’s said in the book,
Hate is a kind of passion, is it not?
LAUGHING SO HARD. Laughing SO hard because of Talasyns reaction after that was said.
Talasyn is so funny to me. Her sense of humor is just like top tier. The banter between her and Alaric made me laugh OUT LOUD multiple times.
I would love to see more of the fantasy elements in the next book, but also not complaining if it’s more fantasy ROMANCE than romantic FANTASY.
CANT WAIT TO START AMR BR tmr!!!! SO READY!!!! ❤️🖤
First read: INFINITY STARS ✮
YALL!!!!! this book was my entire life and will continue to be my entire life as long as i live. the paperback needs to come out faster so i can buy it and mark it tf up!!!!!!
i read this in january but im always late writing reviews (i was withholding it during global strike week).
this book is truly the epitome of slow burn romantasy and it hurts my heart. the ending had me yearning for the second book like?!?!?!? my brain can’t comprehend it and I’m terrified.
ALSO CAN WE JUST TALK AB WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME TALASYN IS? like can we pls?? she’s the loml.
Although this book is pretty long, I felt myself wishing it was longer when it ended. I have a love-hate relationship with slowburns mostly because I'm impatient and just want the characters to get together already, but in this case, I was happy with the very very very VERY slowburn. It made sense with the story very well.
ok this is very disorganized but i cried laughed giggled screamed so i loved this very much! add on that it’s a debut? WHATTTTTTT!!! Thea Guanzon, you have my heart!
bye bye
-Z.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, and Sexual content
Minor: Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent
luluht's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Colonisation
cryosphinx's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Enjoyed it, will definitely be picking up the sequel. The beginning was good, I enjoyed the world building and the two main characters and their banter but I feel like it fell off when the promised political intrigue and continued world building got back burnered for romance.
It's not that the romance was bad, I did enjoy these two stupids pining for each other and I did appreciate that Talasyn never just ups and forgets the war that Alaric participated in in favor of said romance, but it started getting TOO back and forth. Same with the dual POV. It starts flipping back and forth per chapter then picks up and gets to a point where it flips back and forth within two or so pages which was jarring. At least I felt this was a TRUE enemies to lovers.
I hope the sequel brings more to the table for Talasyn, she got dealt a lot of shitting hands and was too quick to accept it. My girl needs to slap some people around. And I want more political intrigue! This world is primed for it.
I also can't speak to to Reylo-ness of it all. I know it started as a Reylo fic but I didn't pick up any of it but hey, I didn't watch SW 7-9 so I have no clue 🤷♀️ Maybe I got to enjoy it more because of that.
It's not that the romance was bad, I did enjoy these two stupids pining for each other and I did appreciate that Talasyn never just ups and forgets the war that Alaric participated in in favor of said romance, but it started getting TOO back and forth. Same with the dual POV. It starts flipping back and forth per chapter then picks up and gets to a point where it flips back and forth within two or so pages which was jarring. At least I felt this was a TRUE enemies to lovers.
I hope the sequel brings more to the table for Talasyn, she got dealt a lot of shitting hands and was too quick to accept it. My girl needs to slap some people around. And I want more political intrigue! This world is primed for it.
I also can't speak to to Reylo-ness of it all. I know it started as a Reylo fic but I didn't pick up any of it but hey, I didn't watch SW 7-9 so I have no clue 🤷♀️ Maybe I got to enjoy it more because of that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Confinement, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Torture
kayceeisbookish's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail
soniajoy98's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
medium-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? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, and Death of parent
Minor: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, and Alcohol