kitsunasaur's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Death, Child death, Grief, Toxic relationship, Murder, Violence, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Kidnapping
theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, Cursing, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Torture, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Kidnapping, War, Stalking, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Gore, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cannibalism, and Child abuse
Minor: Alcohol
lmmw230494'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder
tallyp's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Torture, Gore, Stalking, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Cursing, Child death, Blood, Religious bigotry, Body horror, and Violence
what_karla_reads'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? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Religious bigotry
Minor: Sexual content and Cursing
onemamareads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Body horror, Child death, Death, Murder, Xenophobia, War, Religious bigotry, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, and Grief
cait's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- 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
Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexism, Torture, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence
rinku's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.5
Spoiler
corruption arcSpoiler
Morgane kidnaps Célie and our squad needs to come for her rescue. It was quite obvious that Ansel would follow them and die at the end, so his death had not the impact on me it probably supposed to hadSpoiler
Morgane escaped againSpoiler
Ansel x Coco didn’t become a thing since he’s underageGraphic: Blood, Confinement, Murder, Violence, Death, and Sexual content
Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Cannibalism
Minor: Animal death
mariekew's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Vomit
koistyfishy's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
This book starts off immediately after the first book ends. From page one it’s tense, threatening, there is action, and stuff going on. But none of this is grasping and it’s feels like the entirety of the book we are just trudging through the trenches to get through to the next book.
I was under the expectation that book two would go more into explaining the vague magic system, but besides the mention of “magic take balance” it’s not really elaborated on at all and I still don’t know how it works!
I did not like the split POV in this book. In book 1 because of the main distinction between Lou and Reid you could easily determine who’s head and POV you were in. This book muddled the lines of internal monologue. They blurred together and often times I had to reread sentences because I was unsure if the chapter was from Lou or Reid’s perspective.
I also have no idea what the actual fuck was going on with their relationship in this book. I really wish sometimes that I had the ability to knock some sense into characters. It bothered me at the start that these two who didn’t know each other really long are this devoted and obsessed with each other… it almost borders on “instant lovey/infatuation vibes” and that type of love does not resonate with me at all! I missed the sassy banter between the two from book one… then a third into the book some sick twist happens and for basically the rest of the book these two basically despise each other due to their judgemental and selfish thoughts and ideals. It’s immature and annoying and the animosity between the two drove me insane.
By page 150 I was wishing for this torture to be over… I need a break before starting book 3 cause I don’t think I can step right into it.
Graphic: Violence and Torture
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder