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Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian

5 reviews

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Genocide, Child death, Murder, Sexual assault, Bullying, Sexism, Physical abuse, Death, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Torture, Death of parent, Blood, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Misogyny, Animal death, Mental illness, and War

Minor: Violence, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

majumita's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Torture, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Murder, Death of parent, and Slavery

Moderate: Kidnapping

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Rape

onefineelephant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.5

9/10. This book was much better than I was expecting. There are not many times when I am genuinely surprised by a book, but there were two parts of the book when my jaw dropped. I also really love both of the love interests even though I am not usually a fan of love triangles. I am very much anticipating what could happen next in the other two books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Blood, Chronic illness, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, War, Body horror, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

kristakp's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

While reading this book, I did not connect with any of the characters. I don't think that most of the "character development" was earned; the weak characterization wasn't immersive enough to make me believe how they were influenced by the plot. Overall, whereas this book was written to feel like a high-stakes scenario, it really fell flat on that front for me. I am stubbornly inclined to read the rest of the trilogy because I hate starting stories without finishing them, so my rating reflects that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Child abuse, Pedophilia, War, Murder, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Colonisation, Child death, and Racism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Fatphobia and Fire/Fire injury