marippe's review against another edition
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
There is way too much focus on the romance and the emotional sides of the book that the plot and character development suffers. Juliette finally starts to understand her powers, but it has felt like such a background thing yet its key to the story?
Adam is still incredibly aggravating and confusing. He’s so annoying! I’m glad Juliette has finally realised how pessimistic he really is, and how strange his obsession with her when “she was broken” truly was. I hope he falls off a cliff I really don’t care for him.
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how he belittled Juliette’s imprisonment in the first book, even after being in the same cell as her, was actually disgusting, and wasn’t fully realised. Just because others have it harder than Juliette that doesn’t diminish the struggles that she went through?Kenji’s confusing to me. I don’t know why he jumps to the conclusion that Juliette’s being a dickhead or whatever - I thought his character was meant to be more logical? Idk he was written weirdly to me.
Ok. With Aaron Warner, a lot of this book felt a bit like history revisionism and gaslighting Juliette into making her believe that Aaron’s not that bad - after all the things he did, theres reasons!!! It didn’t feel planned really, it felt like she realised Aaron was really popular so rewrote the
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child torture and Aaron killing that soldierAaron himself is kinda funny - He does carry this book a lot.
idc about any of the other side characters i cant even tell u their names tbh
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The final build up to Anderson’s assassination was so fast and easy. The fact we spend 320 pages on a love triangle and like 20 on executing the main antagonist is ATROCIOUS. This guy should’ve been dead years ago if hes that easy to kill.Graphic: Domestic abuse, Death of parent, War, Death, Medical content, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail
raypaws'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: Gun violence, Violence, Death, and War
Moderate: Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
akane_shio'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
4.75
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, War, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, and Grief
Moderate: Blood, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Confinement, and Domestic abuse
lavib'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
Jokes aside I think this is the best book in the trilogy.
Graphic: Emotional abuse, War, and Gun violence
Moderate: Death of parent and Abandonment
Minor: Child abuse and Domestic abuse
saoirse10's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Toxic relationship, War, Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Torture, Blood, Death, Hate crime, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Chronic illness
theragereader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, and War
Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Violence, and Alcoholism
Minor: Miscarriage, Ableism, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse
neverlandingonabook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence, War, and Gun violence
Moderate: Grief and Death of parent
Minor: Child abuse and Domestic abuse
ephemeral_remi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Gun violence, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Grief, Slavery, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, and Murder
themoodreader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death and Violence
Minor: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Physical abuse, and War
jillkaarlela'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
4.25
I hate Adam now, and I am a Warner STAN. Aaron Warner is the king of being DOWN BAD for Juliette. Let’s normalize men being this obsessed with the fmc (female main character). I am loving for this enemies to lovers arc. I freaking love Warner!!!! He may be a murderer, but a FREAKING HOT ONE! Warner is the king, the OG morally gray character, he basically invented it. Why I love Warner over Adam so much is that Adam thinks he loves Juliette in spite of her flaws and Warner loves Juliette because of her flaws. Warner sees the real Juliette, not some glorified version of her that Adam made up in his head and needs to be protected (small, weak, fragile, etc.). Warner knows she’s a bada** and treats her as such, pushes her to be better, accepts, loves and encourages her while wholeheartedly accepting and loving her faults/her dark side. I saw someone on tiktok say that they love the enemies to lovers trope so much bc someone’s after seeing the worst parts of yourself, and even when they have every reason to hate you, actively chooses to love you anyways. That is exactly it. And that is Warner and Juliette 100%. I love how far these characters have come as well as their development, all of the characters are constantly changing and evolving and growing together. I totally get the hype for these books now, I’m sorry I didn’t see it earlier. The romance is TOP TIER. And the major action/dystopian plot is pretty interesting too, I think it’s a great concept that is executed really well. Juliette is my QUEEN, she is the original girlboss. Again, there’s a lot of rambling/stream of consciousness type of writing, as we can read Juliet’s thoughts, so if you don’t vibe with that, you won’t like these. But gosh darn it if I didn’t fall head over heels for Warner.
This is not really graphic or explicit, it’s more describing the emotions that are happening and you can imply what’s happening. I’d say 0.5/5🌶 it literally lasts like maybe 5 minutes and it doesn’t really say anything explicit at all, it’s just all implied. I was told that it would be spicy, and it’s the good kind of spice, where it feels so romantic and hot and real but without graphic detail- describes vividly the emotional intimacy, implies physical intimacy if that makes sense.
Age rating: 14+
Minor: Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, Cursing, and Domestic abuse