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Alas de sangre by Rebecca Yarros

260 reviews

bzliz's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

I was so close to DNFing in the first chapter when there was wayyy too many references to how tiny and fragile Violet is but I stuck it out because I had already paid for the book. Part of my enjoyment of my reading experience came from relaying the plot to my fiance who promptly renamed Violet to Mary Sue. While I don’t think that title fits her perfectly, she does feel Mary Sue adjacent to me because everyone is so obsessed- good or bad- with this chick at any given point in the book. She also only seems to have flaws in the way that someone at a job interview talks about how their weakness is that they’re a perfectionist. Her flaws seem to be her physical build and ambiguous disability (which is not something she could control), her proximity to power which makes her a target (she can’t control who gave birth to her), that she’s merciful (see the Threshing), and that she’s too trusting (see Dain).

I liked the dragons and found that aspect much more interesting than pretty much anything that Violet was thinking at any given point, which was usually about how hot Xaden is. It was pretty clear that Yarros is more of a romance writer than a fantasy writer. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that but it’s frustrating when Violet is worried about how attracted to Xaden she is more than how many people are actively plotting to kill her. I was much more interested in the symbiotic relationship between humans and dragons and the (sub)plot about what their government is hiding from them about the dangers and nature of the regular attacks along the border.

Also the number one offense in this book, hands down, bar none, go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200: Xaden nicknaming her Violence. I hate it so much forever. He says it at super weird times and then sort of taunts her saying “we’ll see if you live up to your nickname” like bro, you gave her the nickname, you’re telling her to live up to the expectation you privately set for her and that’s so weird. If someone is known in their hometown as Sandwich Man and you come in out of nowhere and challenge them to a sandwich eating contest, then you can say let’s see if you live up to your nickname then that’s fine because it makes sense but if you see someone eat a sandwich one time and dub them Sandwich Man, then when everybody else is making sandwiches together and your new acquaintance is minding their business, it’s super weird if you insist they go live up to the nickname that you gave them!

Once Xaden and Violet cave to their primal desire for each other, I got bored. The sex scenes were just as mediocre as everything else. With how much people hyped up the spice/smut in the book, I expected better. If you’ve read literally any sex scenes before then you’ve already read these too. 

Unfortunately, this was just an okay book. A lot of it felt like a rehash of YA tropes shifted into dragon rider murder college. I understand why so many people love it but I don’t think it lives up to that hype, nor is it the worst thing I’ve ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Medical content

Minor: Grief, Death of parent, and War

levic's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

newtnewt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and War

kat_a's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Alcohol

sadie_g's review against another edition

adventurous 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

Absolutely loved this book and the characters in it. Really cool to see a main character with a physical disability and that she is such a badass. And the enemies to lovers in this is just perfect.

I found that Violet kinda had main character syndrome at times but I found that I didn’t even care cause of how much I was enjoying this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Grief

sgriffinn's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

oh my goddess! one of the greatest books i’ve ever read. right up there with my faves!!! already want to reread it. also i’m in love with xaden x

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and War

letiross's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and Grief

infjkiki's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Vomit

reminiscences's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Gaslighting

_shaybiebaybee's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Throughout the entire book I wondered if Rebecca Yarros had ever even considered getting Fourth Wing professionally edited. There are about seven phrases repeated ad nauseam in this book, which I may have noticed only because I was listening to the audiobook, but I honestly think I would have noticed it in print too. This was very annoying. 
Repetitive things I did not enjoy:
- mentions of gold flecks
- "good point" "fair point" "s/he has a point" (you could make a dangerous drinking game with this one)
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Tairn is the mOsT pOwErFuL dRaGoN or any other reason why

no one really wants to mess with Violet
- mentions of brows doing things. 
- Mentions of "he gave me [such and such look that makes her horny] but noooo we aren't thinking about that right now"

This book is like if someone took Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, removed the good worldbuilding, added even more racist stereotypes, combined it with the Divergent style revolution (not the well thought out Hunger Games one), got the sex scenes written by a Gena Showalter wannabe, then threw it in the dryer on high to felt. Like yeah I guess it was entertaining but it was kind of like a train wreck. Like others have said, this feels ripped right from wattpad. 

I will be reading the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Vomit