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natashaleighton_'s review against another edition
Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, and Death of parent
zimmerlemon's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and Blood
Moderate: Hate crime and Racism
amylynnknitsreads'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: Gore, Hate crime, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism
aneverbird's review against another edition
Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry
tallismarlowe's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
dariusmortee'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
I am personally a non native reader and that was why I had trouble starting this book. The words and sentence building used weren’t familiar to me, which made it harder to understand what was written. I wouldn’t recommend this book to someone who just started reading in English as a non native speaker.
Besides that, this book has a lot of diversity, fun characters and a good plot!
So far I noticed pansexual representation, possible gay representation, non binary representation and many different skin tones.
I can understand however if people would find this book to be triggering due to a lot of death and racism/discrimination.
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Animal cruelty
micheala'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
5.0
The main character Fie is part of the Crow caste, the only people who can't get the Sinner Plague and thus are the ones that deal with Mercy Killing those dying of it and burning the bodies so that the entire town doesn't become infected and die. Was it a questionable choice to pick this up now, having just passed a year into this pandemic? Maybe, but I really liked it so it's fine.
Looking at it as it's list of plot events, this is a fairly standard YA fantasy. However, it doesn't read that way. The first thing that made me think that this was going to land better for me was that the reason that the 16 year old girl was the one in charge was not because there were no adults/all the adults were useless/evil.
If you view the romance that develops based on the amount of time that the characters know each other it could be called instalove, however it didn't feel like that while I was reading it so it didn't bother me. Also, no love triangles!
I really liked how it ended, in that I'm definitely excited for the sequel but if your the kind of person who likes an open ending you could read this as a standalone.
I'm practicing being less stingy with my ratings this yer, and honestly I don't have any complaints about this book, so even though I'm not sure I would call it an all time favourite, it's still going to get 5 stars.
Moderate: Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder
murphyslaw's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Death of parent