Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout

7 reviews

missgarceau's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

headinthepages's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

cryosphinx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

I found this to be quite better in a lot of ways than FBAA but also too similar in spots. There's a lot of predictable twists because they were there at least somewhat in FBAA. The other bothers from FBAA are also here with random modern phrases and Q&A style info dumps but it is such a relief that there isn't a lot of repetative dialogue happening. And the banter between Sera and Ash is *delicious* and the steamy scenes are way better written. 

The first half is pretty slow but the second half is action packed the whole way through. There is still some lull for dialogue but the second half is defitwhere the book shines.

Overall, I really, really enjoyed this and thought I would be "meh" not having Poppy and Hawke but Sera and Ash? Maybe BETTER?! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent, Confinement, and Child death

symabee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Physical abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement

fireheart_2010's review against another edition

challenging slow-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

2.5

I hated this book. I wish I had just looked up a summary. It’s literally a copy of Poppy and Casteel except with a different storyline. If it is crucial to read book 2 for the book after WOTQ (which btw is the ONLY reason I read this trash) then I am honestly going to just look up a summary explaining the just of it. Could have read other better books as opposed to this. Do yourself a favor and just look up spoilers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Confinement, and Sexism

kodafaith's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

Oh my Gods is this books so good😍🔥😍🔥 After reading through the FBAA books I was hesitant to want to pick this one up because I loved Poppy and them too much but WOW do I love Sera and Nyktos even more! I am literal trash for their relationship.
I devoured this book in a day and a half while caring for a 1 year old. It’s that good and I don’t know what to do while waiting for the second one.
After reading through the FBAA books too it is so cool to see the gods as real people and get a deeper understanding of the world and see the lore first hand. And Reaver and Jadis? I need to have little dragons now!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Child death and Blood

deesquared's review against another edition

3.0

I found this story engaging and entertaining and was left wanting more - there's no doubt JLA is a great storyteller. 

However, this story was very familiar. Almost verbatim of FBAA (yes, I know it's a prequel/part of the main series). There was a part where Sera sees a dead baby and is like ~if anything ever hurts any of my descendents I'll annihilate them~... It took away from the story imo. 

Moreover, some of the writing itself wasn't the best and would take you out of the story as you're reading it...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, and Sexual violence