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Feita de Fumaça e Osso by Laini Taylor

2 reviews

dcnarvaez's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

I wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did (or the entire trilogy as a matter of fact), being a book from the 2010s with a premise so similar to many other romantasy books that came around that time such as Shadow Hunters (Shadow Hunters Wish it was this good), but Laini Taylor has demonstrated that she is a master storyteller and made this story so unique and interesting. Loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Infidelity and Colonisation

Minor: Child death and Genocide

I really wasn't expecting this book to have so much romance into it and to end in a cliffhanger that pretty much destroyed/put a strain on the main relationship.

donatio's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

So... overall I liked the book.
I liked the characters as well as the world-building but some things didn't sit right with me. 

I'm a big animal friend and I'm intrigued by the concept of opposites, how something cannot exist without an opposite, but the depiction here failed sometimes. The fact that the angels basically colonised the world of the chimaera often fades into the background and the chimaera are still often described as the villain(monsters) because the angels make no appearance except for Akiva's "rightness" and so on; the balance it was probably supposed to be... Is just not there. Even though it is said that the chimaera are intelligent and feeling beings this behavior isn't shown, there is no tender love in Eretz in the chimaera capital described. That makes them seem cruel even though the angels are the "real" enemies. 
Furthermore I had a problem with some comments made in the book I can't recall specifically now and the fact that everyone seems to be beautiful (ly thin) in some way upsets me.

Still the story managed to draw me in, to care about the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Torture