midnacine's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Sexual content, Violence, Confinement, War, and Death
Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
cnohero's review against another edition
dark
tense
fast-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
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, War, and Sexual content
Moderate: Torture
katharina90's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
2.0
I'm officially bored with this series.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Sexual content
Moderate: Confinement, Torture, and Death
mlottermoser's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Book 4 - solid magic, mystery, war development. Too many steamy scenes that didn’t add anything to the plot. Just felt like they were included to check all the boxes. A lot of drama could be avoided if characters just had the hard discussions.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Violence, War, Gore, Death, and Blood
xxcherrypie99's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
sad
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
4.25
Almost a 5 star book. There is so much information that this book provides. The issue is that the filler content is spread out and the good information is crammed into one space. I found myself on the edge of my seat during the filler information waiting to see what was coming. Once something big happened I found myself dizzy and needing to reread 3-4 times to actually collect the info. Other than how information was given, I feel like this is an essential piece of the series. Although I feel we need 3 more books after how this one ended. As always I recommend this series to my friends and we honestly love Poppy, probably one of the few female leads that we actually appreciate. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but this is one of the top series in my list.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Blood, War, Sexual content, and Murder
mamat5925's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping, War, Torture, Cursing, Murder, Grief, and Confinement
immdanii's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
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? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture, Sexual content, Death of parent, War, Kidnapping, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: Confinement and Cursing
Minor: Alcohol and Panic attacks/disorders
hjcooley's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood and Torture
jen1804's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Enjoyed this book, I thought it was a good edition to the series. The character development of Poppy and Cas was great, as was the development of Poppy and Keiran’s relationship as they looked after each other whilst Cas was captured. I actually adore the love the three of them have for each other, one of my favourite book dynamics of all time, and I was here for the joining!
Loved Poppy’s level of badassery in this book.
Loved Isbeth as a villain, she is such a good villain. We love to HATE her, the fucked up twisted vengeful psycho with a weird way of showing love.
Some of the scenes were harrowing, JLA has no problems killing children, be warned. I can imagine this playing out on a screen and it being worse than Game of Thrones when it comes to gore and blood and horrible deaths.
The book felt long, and at times super confusing even if I read and then reread slowly. There is soooo much information.
Glad I read A Shadow In The Ember before this book as we got a lot of background knowledge from Sera and Nyktos’ story which tied into Poppy’s.
Overall a great book with goosebump worthy moments but drops points because there’s just so much to wrap your head around and it’s not always explained well enough to help me do that.
Satisfactory ending? Yes another cliff hanger.
Loved Poppy’s level of badassery in this book.
Loved Isbeth as a villain, she is such a good villain. We love to HATE her, the fucked up twisted vengeful psycho with a weird way of showing love.
Some of the scenes were harrowing, JLA has no problems killing children, be warned. I can imagine this playing out on a screen and it being worse than Game of Thrones when it comes to gore and blood and horrible deaths.
The book felt long, and at times super confusing even if I read and then reread slowly. There is soooo much information.
Glad I read A Shadow In The Ember before this book as we got a lot of background knowledge from Sera and Nyktos’ story which tied into Poppy’s.
Overall a great book with goosebump worthy moments but drops points because there’s just so much to wrap your head around and it’s not always explained well enough to help me do that.
Satisfactory ending? Yes another cliff hanger.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, War, Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Torture
kateped's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
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? It's complicated
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Child death