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btwnprintedpgs'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? No
5.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gaslighting
Minor: Cursing, Torture, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
smasson13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
This story felt like a hundred threads being picked up at the authors convinience. As though nothing was quite fully explained, drawn out, or developed.
A few things that I struggled with (potential spoilers head):
1. What was the world building in this?? Did I miss a map that should have been there? Why was nothing ever explained?
I'm still so confused about why they had weird powers in their world at all, none of that seemed to be helpful really. And because it wasn't developed well, the cute part with their door hinge bracelets just felt randomly added??
2. Lack of character development. Ooofff. This was rough. I felt like I didn't know anything about these characters, no deep back story, no emption, no depth. Like there was what, 2 sentences?? between Evermer and his mother? Even Melek got like stabbed and kidnapped but I know nothing about their character?
3. This plot was all over the place. The first 250 pages was slow! Then we had a good 100 page chunk that was interesting as they investigated. But the moment Evermer and Kadou hooked up, the plot magically got wrapped up with barely any effort or difficulty. Like just send the horse and capture the criminals, have a trial and be done. All within a few pages. Do we even know their sentence??
4. Sudden powerful and angry kink? What?
I read it all, will not reread, but I did manage to get through it?
Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Sexual content, and Alcohol
Minor: Cursing, Drug use, and Death of parent
jjjreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cursing
Minor: Child abuse, Medical content, Death of parent, and Deportation
caseythereader'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
5.0
- A TASTE Of GOLD AND IRON is wonderfully lush, quickly building both an intriguing world and compelling slow burn romance.
- It's really an incredible feat the way Rowland has made the romance the tensest, most electric part of the story when the political plot is full of secrets, backstabbing and the fate of the dynasty hanging by a thread. But when Kadou and Evemer have even the barest of touches, all that fades to the background.
- This book is also wonderfully queer. Not only is the central pair achillean, but queerness is fully accepted, there are three genders with an in-language set of pronouns for them, nonstandard family structures, and an ace secondary character.
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail