Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

16 reviews

naenae_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

murphysmate'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

3.5

Lots and lots of fight scenes, but otherwise very good, with a great magic system, and a different universe to most fantasy books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Classism

nerdkitten's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Misogyny, Torture, Excrement, and Deportation

lochanreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

A vividly imagined warrior type fantasy about two races of people, Omehi and Hedeni, locked in a never-ending war until one of them is completely exterminated. Tau Solarin is a commoner born into the unfalteringly classist Omehi tribe and wants nothing to do with the war. That is until he witnesses his father being killed in front of his very eyes by haughty Nobles and in his effort to seek revenge, Tau is thrown into the thick of battle as he strives to become a stronger fighter. Rage of Dragons is darkly magical, beastly and unrelenting. 
I thought for what was supposed to be a matriarchy, the writing did convey some typically male-dominant narratives such as when Tau refers to a woman character he meets towards the end of the book as a "child" and continues to infantalise her despite acknowledging that they are about the same age and height, as well as other bits of dialogue throughout. A high level of reverence is given to women in this fantasy but their representation didn't always hit the right notes. 
I was however, pulled into the story and the ending lends itself nicely to the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Colonisation

danielle_sips_tea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

griffinthief's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury