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A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer L. Armentrout

10 reviews

nonotyoshi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? Yes

4.0

Full of uncomfortable, stressful dark moments, yet with a very satisfying and hopeful conclusion/ending. Worth sticking through reading 100% 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and War

Minor: Body shaming, Misogyny, and Vomit

amy_lynn02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

selestre's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

louisepea's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexism, Slavery, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

itmakessenseincontext's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

chloep3012's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Child abuse

leylabelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I would gladly live through the intense agony and torture and pain of reading the first 65-70% of this book again if it meant sera and nyktos got to live those couple of days together again forever uwu 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Vomit

midnacine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

5.0

I want my own Shadow Daddy :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fatphobia and Vomit

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

Well. Some of the characters are lovable. Others can rot in the Abyss for eternity. 

I have a lot of conflicted feelings about this book. I think I'd struggle to reread it again, and I hate to say that. However, this book was such a trauma fest. Only the last 15% was somewhat palatable, to be honest.

We deserved that smut fest, tbh.

I really struggled with the fact that it took about 60% of the book for Sera and Ash

to reunite. At least in TWOTQ when they were separated for about half the book, Kieran was with Poppy and we also got Cas's POV on the side. This was just never ending trauma, built again and again on Sera, and that was......rough.

 

There was also SO much info dumping. Like....SO MUCH. I feel like this series is just solid info dumping, so much so that it gets fatiguing after a while. I definitely felt that in this book, and I think the simultaneous trauma Sera endured just made it harder to get through. I really hope someone on insta makes a nice summary infographic on this book, because uuuffffffff. 

MAJOR SPOILER:

The smut fest at the end, though. HOT DAMN. And ASH AND HIS LOVE FOR SERA. I FUCKING KNEW IT. I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT.  The best thing about this book is her ascension and Ash loving Sera. (And Sera hacking Solis to pieces, but who's asking...)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

eberzy's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.75

I’ve crushedd every book in this series so far. Good vibes and definitely better than FBAA. But this book was especially dissapointing. 

I didn't find the first part of the book to be slow like others have said. There was a fair amount of action, but it was so tough to read. Kolis was vilainified to the extreme. He became an abuser in the grossest way and it all felt like a weird watpadd story. Like Sera's first escape attempt? Come on what was that. Between that and the diamond, it just felt like there was no creativity for those Sera and Kolis scenes. At times, it felt as if there was a big theme around SA and overcoming trauma in this book. I respect that, but it bothered me. I read fantasy for escape and was not mentally prepared for the content to be that dark.

My other probelm was with the side characters. This can probably be blamed on me not doing a re-read of the earlier books in the series, but I could not for the life of me remember the back story on the other characters. There are so many--perhaps too many? And in this book, it seemed like they had no purpose other than to verbally provide world building. There was SO much of that. As much as I like the fun banter dialogue, I would have liked a little more action. 

The last 150ish pages were the slowest for me. Such a drawn out conclusion with Sera and Ash just going in circles saying the same thing. A lot of major events happened, but were written anticlimactically. It felt like the emphasis was on other, moments that were seemingly less critical to the plot.

I'm interested to see how this series will conclude. This book felt like it had a fairly closed ending. Here's to hoping there will be more revelations in the final book. This one didn't seem to give a lot, but might have possibly been a big set up for the end...of both Flesh and Fire and Blood and Ash.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cursing, Torture, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit and Abandonment