Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Fourth Wing - Flammengeküsst by Rebecca Yarros

195 reviews

jakesdv99's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Chronic illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: War and Genocide

Minor: Drug use and Terminal illness

aitzko's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

WHERE TO START

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, and Death of parent

mrmarshall591's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual content, Body shaming, Bullying, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Chronic illness, and Vomit

Minor: Cursing

prairieraven's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

Doesn't live up to the hype but it is a cute,  simple read for something that is military school for teens with dragons. The dragons are neat. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Ableism, Cursing, Confinement, Child death, Violence, Police brutality, Genocide, Stalking, Sexual content, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Murder, and Misogyny

ominous_teapot's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Chronic illness

eatingbrains's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

While I understand why people would enjoy this book, I am unfortunately one of the ones that couldn't turn off the feeling that I was reading a YA that was aged up to include sex.

I could not read the word badass without cringing.  The world building was positively wild.  It's in a more historical fantasy setting where they write with quills, use weapons, crossbows were a big deal, people who wield magic have access to smaller abilities like locking/unlocking doors, making mage light, etc.  There lots of wooden shit, but that also translated to having wooden exercise equipment to essential get swole in a modern fashion, rather than bodyweight exercises.  There's a brief mention right at the beginning about shoe sizes which means they have standardized them?  And the whole riders quadrant can get married before everyone else when the graduate....  At age 23?  That's early for this society?  And the focus of sexual relations was just pervasive.  The talk of raging hormones...  The convenience of fertility suppressants getting a brief mention before boning down.  Oh and gods are worshipped, but not by dragons.

There was some disability rep that I think was decent considering that it was a fantastical setting with healers, and the character didn't want to "look weak" and would refuse treatment to speed the healing process.  There was some LGBT+ rep as well, but mostly on a surface level for side characters.

Honestly, it was fine but the romance had me putting the book down regularly and made finishing this book difficult.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Stalking, Classism, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, War, Violence, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Body shaming, Death, Grief, Torture, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death of parent, Genocide, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse

caitlink's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, War, and Violence

pandact's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

You know a book is good when it's impossible to stop thinking about it all day!  I play a boardgame and think of Liam carving a dragon miniature, or riding a roller coaster feels like flying on a dragon. And this PLOT was a roller coaster with twists and fast paced writing comparable to a Sanderson avalanche. 

It also puts the adult in "young adult," if you know what I mean, and balances wish fulfillment with a gritty fantasy world. The magic is always dazzling and exciting, but so are the limitations and challenges for the characters. That's the best example (while avoiding spoilers) of how Yarros deftly avoided problematic tropes like a Supercrip, and you can tell it's OwnVoices. It felt like the book was reading my mind most of the time and you know the publishing team is going to go far because it's already signed for Amazon TV!

All I can hope is that the next book has an ending that's just as satisfying or waiting for the rest of the series is going to kill me!

For now I'll just listen to the soundtrack of How to Train Your Dragon and reread 🐉

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Medical content, Xenophobia, and War

oleaceae_olive's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

I could not put this book down! I honestly thought it was going to be overrated, but I really loved this book and I understand how it's so popular. Really cool world, I think the pacing of how Yarros did the world building in this book was phenomenal. It wasn't too overwhelming in the beginning, but by the end you know that there's still so much more to learn and explore. And I loved Violet as the main character, I liked how her strengths and weaknesses were shown and that her disabilities could be accommodated instead of magically gotten rid of. The enemies to lovers romance was also SO GOOD in this book. I also really liked the premise of the war and how the way information is controlled affects what people think about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

comfy_anna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Chronic illness, Bullying, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Medical content, Grief, and Ableism