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Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

12 reviews

meredith_williams_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.75

The fact that I rated this 3/5 stars the first time I read it is absolutely criminal! My apologies to Sarah J. Maas because this book is actually incredibly well written. The story telling is so much more developed and the balance between the action needed to move an epic fantasy forward and the emotional exploration that adds depth to each character is spot on. I still maintain that the witches’s storyline is a bit boring and seemingly out of place. However, knowing that their role becomes crucial in later books helped me be more invested in their part this time around. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Grief

Minor: Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

haleran's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Torture, Grief, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

kayceeisbookish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

laura_nel13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Genocide, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and War

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Mental illness, Alcohol, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Genocide

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad 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: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Bullying, Mental illness, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gaslighting, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Moderate: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, War, Genocide, Alcohol, Racism, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit, Confinement, Drug use, Classism, Excrement, Ableism, Cursing, Gore, Colonisation, Sexual content, and Slavery

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

my second favorite book of the series.
i loved basically everything about Heir of Fire, Celaena’s journey and development, Chaol’s inner struggle about where his loyalties actually lie, amazing new introduced characters and especially more magic content!!

i very much disliked everything surrounding Dorian and Sorsha, their POV chapters were so boring and absolutely pointless, she especially was such a dull and uninteresting character,

Spoiler

the only time i was interested in a scene with her in it was when she died.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Physical abuse, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Slavery, and War

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

This took me a bit longer to get through. I felt like I was missing out on Easter eggs and Celaena's past due to me not reading the prequel to the Throne of Glass series, The Assassin's Blade. So I stopped around 50% and listened to that audio.

Heir of fire is a rocky transition through the series, with so many new characters being thrown at you. Along with grasping people in Aelin's life merging with those in Celaena's life. 🥵 

it's REALLY overwhelming😭😓 Especially Rowan's transformation...I still have no idea when that went down and literally questioned if he was a new character😅😭🤦🏽‍♀️

Then on top of that,  there are sprinkles from Manon's perspective. Celaena killing one of the iron teeth witches elder's stirred their cauldron. I think she alone should have been a novella within the series..unless there is one...I'm tired just thinking about it. 

I do love her creature/dragon companion Axbraxtos and them learning to trust each other. 

It literally felt like I was thrown from the ToG world and projected to the iron teeth witches world.

All I can recall at the end is Celaena/Aelin reconnecting with her true self and declaring war as terresan's lost queen....it's A LOT. 

I'll probably take a break from this series to gather my bearings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, War, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Torture, Murder, and Physical abuse

sophiepeach's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

mardorko's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol