Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent

24 reviews

selestre's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

coveredinivy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

theresamothinmyroom's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

elledanie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Love love this Crowns of Nyaxia series 😭🤩 Def recommend if anyone is in the mood for an action-packed fantasy romance with dual POV, winged vampires, kings & nobles, battles/war, magic, and a little mystery.

There’s more plot than romance, and I wouldn’t say it’s super ‘high’ fantasy—there is a map, but the world, races, magic, gods, etc. aren’t too complicated or confusing. The writing style is very readable and so fun with all the diff callbacks and character relationships. 

If it’s not a Coriatis bond then I don’t want it! 🫶 💁🏻‍♀️

“Loving Oraya was terrifying.
It required me to see things I didn’t want to see. Face things I didn’t want to face. Allow another soul to witness parts of myself I didn’t even want to acknowledge.
I now felt like such a fucking fool that I had never thought of it in that way, with that word, until this moment.
Of course it was love.
What else could it be, for someone to see that much of you? To see so much beauty in the parts of someone that they hate in themselves?
I almost wished I hadn’t had the realization, because it made what loomed ahead that much more devastating. Easier to have nothing to lose.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

bookwyrm25's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

• 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 really struggled on whether to rate this 4 stars or 4.5 stars, which is very disappointing because the first book was one of my top books of the year. However, it was mind blowing and amazing,  but went on at LEAST 100 pages too long. Maybe even 150 pages too long. They didn't need to have

  Orya almost die SO MANY TIMES only for her to heal in ONE DAY and come back so much stronger somehow. Once or twice sure, but it happened like 4 times in this one singular book and it ate up 50-100 pages each time. I think for the elongated scenes and the almost dying so many times subtract half of a star for me, only because the emotional turmoil this book put me through and the slow burn of it all made me so freaking happy otherwise.

Otherwise, the book was heart wrenching and amazing and I loved every moment of their relationship. I loved the development Orya made and how devoted Raihn is. I love all the side characters, and I loved seeing Vale and Lillith again. Amazing book. I cried multiple times! (out of joy!) And also, severe daddy issues! I get it girl. Man was a terrible father.... 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

sbordo's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Alcohol

purplexwidow's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.25

I drank this up. Love the action, the new take on vampires (now with WINGS!) and complicated relationship between Oraya and her father. Slow-burn romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War and Classism

erinkellyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

Continuing from the first book in this duology, I am again conflicted in my review. I did get more about the gods and Vincent/Oraya's past, which is what I was looking for, but... this dragged. I just never felt the chemistry between Raihn & Oraya and so when they were fighting over what Raihn did (which - valid, girl, I don't know if I could be in the same room with him after that in the beginning) I wasn't super rooting for them to get back together. I found myself skimming pages to get to the good parts. The ending was, in some ways, expected and, in others, unsatisfying. Now the question becomes - do I do what I did to myself with the Hades/Persephone series and push to read the rest in this world to see if it gets better or do I cut my losses on this series? Time will tell. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

beckyremillard's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail