slee907's review
- 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? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Violence and Confinement
pitsikakku's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Confinement, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, War, Violence, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery
Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Death of parent
menomica's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
He knows now the word for the soaring feeling he gets in his chest every time he looks at his squire. He knows now the name of the song his body sings when he touches his friend. It is love. And it is impossible.
Once you know and understand that this book was originally a stucky fanfic everything clicks. Like once you see and accept that it’s a repackaged
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I know they had to chang the names for legal reasons but I need to know the original character roster. Who the fuck was Montegue in the original fic??? Every time there was a new character introduced I was like was that originally and MCU character or an OC? Someone send me the characterlist I’m dying to know!!!That being said, I would argue this book does manage to stand on its own. Like for me at least I enjoyed watching
Idk I liked it. Wouldn’t be mad if there was a sequel 🤷🏾♀️.
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Uncle Iain is definitely the kids favorite. Plus I’d love to see Aly, Harry and Iain’s relationship after the books.Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, and War
Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Murder, Confinement, and Grief
Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Animal death
marioncromb's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
This was one of those unputdownable, breeze-through reads for me, very readable prose, characters i cared about, interesting historical setting, captivating romance. But i had one big problem with it.
For me, there were just far too many sex scenes. This was maybe slightly balanced out for me by having a canon asexual side character, but only slightly, as they are a side character and their asexuality almost just seemed like more of a plot device not to get in the way of the main couple. And the sex scenes were very idealised and explicit, basically just porn:
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idealised in that the only two bodily fluids that exist are saliva and jizz, no one has a gag reflex, magically no one ever needs to douche, the sex is always mindblowing etc etcTo give you an idea of how much. This is a book of four roughly equal quarters:
First quarter: plot: a young knight tries to befriend his prisoner
Second quarter: basically just porn, just so much porn
Third quarter: mostly porn, some plot
Last quarter: thankfully back to mostly plot and only some porn
For a 500+ page book, its a lot of porn. But if you like that sort of thing definitely give it a go because i found it very enjoyable otherwise
Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, and Physical abuse
Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Outing, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment