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bigskydolphin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
av0universe's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, and Vomit
Minor: Bullying, Death, Vomit, Grief, and Sexual harassment
auri_underthing's review against another edition
- 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
This story was adorable! And I loved the magic system.
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Bullying
andrikkk's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Grief
writingcaia's review against another edition
4.0
I can't understand such bad reviews. This is a well thought fantasy story with intriguing and super creative magic, world building, and characters, whom although not extensively introduced still made me feel close to them, especially as the book goes. It is a short book and maybe could have been more descriptive to introduce more details and depth however I still really enjoyed it. Can't wait for the next one.
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Bullying
thelizzielibrary's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Gaslighting
linguisticfanatic's review against another edition
All of that aside, I was interested to see the world that was in this book and where things were going. It was obvious to me that there was something going on with the adults in the world and I was willing to be invested in their actions while putting up with a 19 year old moping about her lot in life.
All of that would've been great to read through. Instead, we have our MC decide that she with her tiny folded birds and fish are going to traipsing off to find Lira and steal Emery's heart back. Even though I was rolling my eyes, I was at the 30%ish mark so I figured that it would just be an adventure in stupidity. I was thinking she'd get trounced and drag herself back home in disgrace, but instead I've been making my way through the 4 valves of his heart watching memories I don't care about. I'm currently in the 3rd valve at the 67% mark and dreading that there's still another valve to go through full of memories to watch and I just can't do it anymore.
I don't care to spend my time with a character I don't like watching memories one after the other. Ceony knows that she can't interact with the memories (outside of select moments) and yet she still goes up to each memory talking and trying to touch things. I can't deal with the stupidity anymore.
There was so much I could see good about where this story could've gone. There was just a very poor choice of storytelling mechanic used for too much of the book for me to stay interested.
Graphic: Body horror and Blood
Minor: Bullying
whirl's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Confinement and Blood
Moderate: Confinement, Gore, and Violence
Minor: Bullying and Death