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carsons1996'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War
Moderate: Confinement and Colonisation
Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent
bzliz'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? Yes
4.25
The big plot twist at the end felt strongly foreshadowed throughout and it really goes to show that you can’t trust that the dead will remain so in this universe. No one is safe. Elise’s mother and two kidnapped guards show us the first few hints of humanity in any of the Timorans beyond Elise. The downright cruel nature some characters display really toes the line on cartoonishness but rarely crosses over. I’m excited to read the next and continue Elise and Valen’s story.
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Blood, death, injury, murder, violence, war (on page):
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Kidnapping & confinement (on page):
Fire/fire injury (on page):
Rape, sexual assault, sexual violence (off page): <spoilers>A captured female Raven is described as having had one of the Timoran captains force himself on her. Addition mentions made of these types of violence being committed against women.
Sexual content (on page):
Slavery (off page):
Vomit (on page):
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Torture and Kidnapping
Minor: Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury
marzreadz2's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, and War
Minor: Rape and Vomit
mae_dexter_author'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
4.0
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, and War
koistyfishy'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
3.5
- The romance is lacklustre. Nothing happens between the characters for almost 50% of the book because they are both constantly wishy washy about what they want and feel and try to stay away. But one touch and then they kiss to go back to avoiding each other like the plague. It felt like they spent too long fighting what they felt for each other and then like a light bulb it just switched back on - in almost instalovie vibes that was a bit unbelievable. 🤢
- The pace of the plot is strange, it goes from a really good pace that I was lapping up, to being incredibly slow and moving nowhere to again speeding through the end.
- The plot remains too predictable even for my taste of reading the same tropes over and over, that it almost feels childish how predictable the “twist” was.
- The plot also really doesn’t go anywhere, it’s almost like most of this could have just been added to book 1 (to make it longer than it was) and made this a duology, instead of have us suffer through a book with “middle book syndrome.”
- Elise’s character feels flat and emotionless. Whist I understand that Valen betrayed her and broke her heart, she deals with this by feeling nothing. It ends up making her a very uninteresting character that I didn’t want to read her POV because it was constantly the same pity party in her head about how Valen didn’t chose her and how she couldn’t understand why he didn’t want to be King and how she had the emotions of a potato.
- The soft attempt of a Love Triangle was almost there and as much as I don’t really like Love Triangles it would have added a little more angst to an already drawn out plot that might have given it that little extra thing it needed to not feel boring.
- Valen’s Name… have I mentioned already how I don’t like the new one?
Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual assault