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Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

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poechedkrisps's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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

I thought this would just be a metal, horror-filled read, but by God, the ending made me emotional and actually rejuvenated some of my own faith back.

While this book starts off really quite slow at first, it really ramps up in intensity and stakes midway through. And then when

it got to the epic battles, the way the devils and hell are depicted, the description and of angels—everything was just hook after hook.

I love books with paralleling ends and beginnings, and this one features this.

The ending quite literally parallels the beginning and even features a well-deserved epilogue for our main character's lost past.

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epsyphus's review against another edition

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challenging dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

This was interesting; I found the relationships compelling and I’m fascinated with the idea of plague and the Black Death in particular. I read the book on a recommendation and it wasn’t until after I started it that I realized I had already read a book by Buehlman. I’m kind of glad about that because I don’t know if I would have picked up the book if I had realized before I started. When thinking about this book and his other book I read, The Lesser Dead, the first word that comes to mind to describe the books is vulgar. And I don’t necessarily mean that as a criticism because I think the vulgarity does serve the themes of the books pretty well, but I did feel kind of icky after finishing both books and I think it was a main contributor to my feeling like that. I think that Buehlman is a good writer, but I don't think his books are for me.

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directorpurry's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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? Yes

4.5

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potatonell's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

5.0

May have some vulgar words

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zachbrumaire's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

wow

mixed feelings on this one

the first 3 parts functioned really well as environmental/climate fiction, the portrayal of society from the mundane to the metaphysical under the pressure cooker of the Black Death

part 4 was bold and weird and reorinted the narrative to more interpersonal papal court politics at the same time a shift from magical realism to a more ordered clash of capabilities and powers, and something was lost that made the first parts so weird and great.

the end, especially the detentmont, was very neat and tidy, very just so, and while some of the surreal poetry of the earlier parts of the work reemerged the impression was one of a shift from the horrors of a heaven and earth abandoned by God to one micromanaged by him just-cause.

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