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librarybookfamily's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Grief
Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
This book references sex, but not in a graphic way. The characters list for each other but don’t actually fulfill those desires. Minor storyline dealing with pregnancy and a miscarriage. Lots of blood and carnage, but she’s an assassin and they’re fighting a war.booksemmahasread's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Violence, and War
Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment
moonlight_musings's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Minor: Sexual assault, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment
cineladeras'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
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
savage_book_review's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Similarly, despite the number of threads that make up this story and the sheer volume of characters that have roles to play, the audio manages to make everything that much more memorable so it's still easy to follow. Again, I do think the graphic audio (when it eventually arrives) will do an even better job, but for now this really does stand up.
For some reason the quality of this audio did sound slightly different to the previous books in the series, especially at the beginning. Either I got used to it and stopped noticing as the book progressed or it's just a glitch at the start, but there are moments early on where it sounds a bit like a knock-off recording. And while Elizabeth Evans is great as always, her vocal repertoire is getting severely stretched by this point and, with many more characters due to appear in the remaining books, I am concerned that discerning between different character voices is going to become difficult and the quality may be affected. Likewise, there were a few slightly odd timing/editing choices in this book - breaks where there needn't be and vice versa. Nothing that is severely going to hamper your enjoyment, but just little things that don't quite sound right.
If anyone has figured out how to do the tandem of the next two books on audio without simply having to remember the switch points, please let me know!!!
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
stitchbooks22's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail
emilywemily6'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: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Classism
ren_the_hobbit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Confinement and Sexual harassment
Minor: Ableism
anguawolf's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Hate crime, Self harm, Cannibalism, and Classism
Minor: Stalking
ladypalutena's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
I only started tolerating her about halfway through Heir of Fire - the only thing that kept me reading the first two books is that the side characters were way more interesting than she was. (And yes, I did read Assassin's Blade - and it made my already-dim view of her even worse, oops.)
These "side characters" are starting to become full-fledged characters in this book. It's clear that Aelin is still supposed to be the main character, but Aedion (I know I'm not spelling that correctly), Rowan, Lysandra, and so on are growing on me much faster than our supposed main character did. I am ALL for seeing a full novel from Lysandra's point of view. I know I'm setting myself up for heartbreak, but if Lysandra dies, I'm rioting.
This book wraps up with what seemed to be the end of the story - yes, there are a few unknowns, but I was not expecting there to still be THREE MORE BOOKS LEFT. That leaves a lot of time for people to die/for things to go wrong.
Graphic: Blood and Pregnancy
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment