Reviews tagging 'War'

Fourth Wing - Flammengeküsst by Rebecca Yarros

733 reviews

kaitlynnnng's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Cursing, and Death of parent

rissaread'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

jaw dropped at the ending omfg… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Sexual content, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Vomit and Death of parent

amvandersypen's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

The plot and world were creative and fun to follow. The characters felt a little flat and the interactions were unrealistic. The cliffhangers are definitely enough to keep the reader interested. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

sighanne_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

3.0

Even though the main plot of the book was interesting, the story was more romance heavy than I was expecting and it followed a relatively predictable storyline, at least in this first book so far. The romance aspect became pretty frustrating when it took precedence over the main plot and made the overall pace of the book feel a lot slower to read despite various time skips, but I digress. With all the hype this book series has been getting, my expectations were high but overall the book was just okay personally. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, War, Death, and Violence

Minor: Ableism

Personally, I found the romance between Violet and Xaden became more cringey and irritating as the story progressed. Whether it's due to the first person view where we can only see Violet's thoughts or the behavior of Violet once she realizes she likes Xaden and wants to pursue a relationship with him, it made the reading experience worse for me. I wish they had more of a slow-burn love story since it would've allowed more time for the author to address the interesting secrets Violet's father kept while making their relationship seem less rushed. Also, disappointed Dain wasn't more of a supportive best friend character and instead was used as a possible love interest who was jealous. Not every childhood friend needs to have a love line with the main character, they can simply just be a great friend that stayed throughout the years.

strawberryjelly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

latenight_pageturner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

I’ve never read Colleen Hoover, but I feel like this is romantasy for people who really like Colleen Hoover. I also want to disclaim that I am no fantasy expert and this is my first dragon-story and the action didn’t disappoint but I do feel like Yarros could have done better fleshing out the more original pieces to make this more unique. I was getting the Gaelic influences but was thrown off by some other spiritual/religious elements - it just seemed like she took bits and pieces of other stories and threw them together with some bad dialog and nothing was really explained.

Was this exciting? Yes. But was it well-done? No. She has a story that's interesting, but if you're looking for original and technically great, I'm sure there are other books. I think this would be a great place to start for being introduced to romance/fantasy books. Which is why I won't completely bash it, this might lead someone deeper into the genre towards better writing and storytelling (not talking about myself at all teehee). I hope she goes more into the dragon lore in Iron Flame.

TW: There are quite a few death scenes and violence, but none of it is extremely graphic. There was only one death scene I was upset about and it had nothing to do with gore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

Minor: Vomit and Cursing

This book does allude to and mention violence, but for the most part none if it is gorily detailed. A very cursory mention of an incident.

jenniferj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Vomit and Sexual content

Minor: War

rosapalskov's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Very entertaining and easy ro read. Did feel a bit like a wattpad story, but still enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Sexual content

crssmith's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Medical trauma, and Grief

emmiej's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Vomit, Blood, Child death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, War, Cursing, Death of parent, Genocide, and Grief