Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'
Fourth Wing - Flammengeküsst by Rebecca Yarros
19 reviews
seren's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Death, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Blood, Gore, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, and Murder
2blueshoes's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
The heroine of this book (Violet) is twenty, but reads younger at first in her emotions and lack of experience. As a reader it is gratifying to see her grow and become stronger (both mentally and physically) throughout the book, but it means she’s a difficult character to get to know - she is developing and changing so quickly it’s hard to pin her down. She’s weak then feisty, strategically clever and then angsty and recklessly plunging into danger. It feels like you are reading about twenty years of someone’s life, instead of one. By the end, Violet is undeniably a badass, and speaks her mind (especially to the men in her life) in a way that had me texting cheer emojis and sharing screen shots.
Although there are multiple heroes in this book, the only one that anyone cares about is Xaden.
Spoiler
(That’s a lie, I’m obsessed with Liam bring him back please).If you are someone who needs to know how complicated magical worlds work straight away, this book will test your patience. I had questions all the way through, and even after finishing the book many aren’t answered (what is up with the white hair thing?) That said, the world building is impressive, and differs from any magical school or dragon stories I’ve ever read. I enjoyed the scenes with the dragons SO much, and found their complicated personalities and lore the best part.
This book is really long, but I didn’t find myself bored or skipping scenes. I loved how much we got to explore in just book one of the series - and can’t wait for the next.
Graphic: Death and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Sexual content, Murder, Toxic friendship, Blood, Bullying, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent, Vomit, and War
rachelmorag's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, and War
dianaschmidty's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, War, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Ableism, and Medical content
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
jennie_serine'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
Graphic: War, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Blood, Cursing, Deadnaming, Chronic illness, Violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Outing, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship
walenchao's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
The “world building” is a flimsy Potemkin city of cardboard cutouts and embarrassing tropes and cliches, with the only redeeming feature being the dragons themselves, something there are precious few moments with outside of the usual Joss Whedon dialogue and snarky remarks. Lots of “chuffing” as a catch all expression for dragon-y displeasure.
In this medieval inspired Harry Potter meets dragon ROTC knock-off you will read phrases like “for the win” and “he is absolute love” and punctuation, that. Always. Does. This. Because. That’s. How. The. Fanfic. Community. Writes. I. Guess? Seems. Rude. To. The. Fanfic. People.
Needless modern swearing, somehow people still use the middle finger as an insult here and turns of phrase that don’t make sense, a will they/when they romance between pretty insufferable characters billed as “enemies to lovers” that is paper thin and one of the worst protagonists I have ever read as your only POV.
The heroine spends most of her time objectifying the boys in her class, being buffy-style snarky, poisoning her classmates (!!!!) and talking about how she’s so weak and frail and small (tiny, he could crush me, oooh these big huge strong men oooooh) while somehow constantly being able to take an incredible amount of damage and abuse in comparison to her classmates. Everyone is stronger than her at all times except when she needs to do something and it would be inconvenient to fail. This is mostly because every test and trial results in the death of other students, supposedly to “cull the weak” but the narrative is that they have fewer and fewer eligible riders every year and that they’re losing the war at the border so I don’t really know why they’re just… letting everyone die or kill each other at a school?
This goes from mild curiosity to a absolutely tedious chore by about page 275. Lots of sloppy trope-bait writing, in all honesty it seems like it could have really used another editing pass because the sentence to sentence structure is a rickety mess.
This gets 1.75 “smiles curling up her face” 😏out of 5 “arched eyebrows”.🤨
Graphic: Sexual content, War, Violence, Bullying, and Forced institutionalization
lokai22'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
3.75
Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and War
Moderate: Forced institutionalization
bookswithbethx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, War, Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Vomit
lemonwrlds's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Violence, War, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit
atlantiareads'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
My only disappointment and it’s not really that disappointing. But it’s the fact that I basically guessed what was gonna happen. But that didn’t take away from how good the story was.
Flew through this book every time I picked it up, and loved every moment of this ride. Cannot wait for book 2!!!!!
Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Sexual assault, Ableism, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Genocide, and Gore