Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

4 reviews

surdiablo's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.0

The first half of this book is slow in the sense that nothing substantial happens and it's mainly character development for Nynaeve and Elayne. While I wasn't bored at all reading it and it was easy enough to go through, it had some <b>huh?</b> moments, like

Spoiler

Elayne and Thom flirting, what???

Lack of Perrin wasn't noticeable at all and I love how Rand becomes more and more badass in each book. I am starting to be fond of Nynaeve, annoyed further by Egwene and Mat is hilarious just like in Shadow Rising. I don't think I loved this book, but the last five chapters had me going through the most impactful rollercoaster in the series for me so far, besides the 'What might be' chapter in Great Hunt.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

razzberry_pi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Slavery

applekettle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.25

 Hmmm.... a little torn on this one. There were parts that I absolutely LOVED and were series highlights. Morgase's chapters, few as they were, were GREAT. They read like a domestic horror story, with the magical elements adding an additional layer of horror. Following Siuan/Min/Leane/Logain was great too - they had an interesting dynamic, and I absolutely love Siuan's determination. Her sparring with Nynaeve was funny, they're both so incredibly stubborn that they naturally rub each other the wrong way.
Nynaeve had a lot of POV chapters this book and they were GREAT. She's really developing as a character and her motivati0ns are starting to shift - glad she's finally acknowledging that she DOES want to be Aes Sedai, if only to learn as much of Healing as she can.
With just these characters, the book would have been five stars. HOWEVER, Rand annoyed me enough to knock off .75 of a star. He had LOADS of POV chapters and they moved SO SLOWLY, until right at the very end where there was a complete 180 and it moved so fast it was hard to keep up. Also, where was Perrin? His POV was the best in book 4, it feels like an odd choice to abandon it right after it hit its stride. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Slavery

the domestic abuse is only really explicit in 1-2 POV chapters, but it is explicit in those chapters.

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

On first read in 2015: 5 stars

2022 reread:

Overall rating: 4.5 stars

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 4 stars
Plot: 5 stars
Worldbuilding: 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Slavery