Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

79 reviews

hannahjoy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book made my jaw drop to the floor, laugh, cry and clutch my pearls. I’m not one to cry when reading, but Heir of Fire got the tears flowing. I like how this one wasn’t as focused on Celaena’s romantic interests and allowed her character to develop in ways that were much needed and I love the new found friendship dynamic between her and

Rowan

. Many pieces of the puzzle finally click into place, new characters are introduced

(my personal favourite being the sweet old gay fae couple) and we see major progression in the rebellion and a cathartic reveal that’s been long awaited.

This is definitely my favourite book in the ToG series so far.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, and Slavery

Minor: Blood

Mentions of mass executions, beheadings, mental torment, death of an animal and more I’ve probably forgotten to mention

mblanke's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

pkreads2024's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

"To Whatever End."

This book was amazing!

Celaena Sardothien aka Aelin Ashryver Galathynius. Embarks on her journey to Wendylnn her distant relatives to kill the king and his son. Minor Spoiler:

That quickly ends up not happeing;)

she is taken by a mysterious Fae individual named Rowan. To which she is to train with him in order to fulfill her part of a bargin with her wicked Fae aunt Meave.
While meanwhile Choal and Dorian, continue on without Celaena after the events of COM. We are introduced to some new characters and some of them have connections to Terrasen. Such as Alein's cousin Aedion, and at least two others.
While Dorian's part in the story is mostly in the castle, and introduces a new side charcter. That has been in the past books.
Also, Choal might be the most indecisive charcter EVER.
Then we are introduced to the witches of Blackbeak and the three other covans. Manon Blackbeak and her thirteen, and how they will impact the story. Minor spoiler:

with thier impact as witches and how they will be the kings aerial army through the weveryns.

Overall, lots of characters/ world building are added into this book, and LOTS of character growth expecilly with Alein. We get a lot of her past, and what happened prior before her ten years as Celaena Sardothien. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Stalking, and Alcohol

catastrophiclyss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

jlg1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

coffiend's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and War

Several scenes of animal cruelty in detail towards

wyverns

, which are semi-domesticated and seem to have unique personalities. Related animal deaths, plus other wild animals, but those are mostly from hunting. Nothing bad happens to the dog.

helfire124's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

elananoel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Minor: Slavery and Torture

babyfacedoldsoul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

I found this book dragged at times and the inclusion of the Manon subplot didn't help. It's very much a middle of the series, let's drop some lore, book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

krosebooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The ending of the book was amazing. It took me a while to get to that point though. I’m sure the other characters are going to show up in the next books but I found myself looking forward to only Celaena’s parts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail