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Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

22 reviews

meredith_williams_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

The fact that I rated this 3/5 stars the first time I read it is absolutely criminal! My apologies to Sarah J. Maas because this book is actually incredibly well written. The story telling is so much more developed and the balance between the action needed to move an epic fantasy forward and the emotional exploration that adds depth to each character is spot on. I still maintain that the witches’s storyline is a bit boring and seemingly out of place. However, knowing that their role becomes crucial in later books helped me be more invested in their part this time around. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

haleran's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

kayceeisbookish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

laura_nel13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Colonisation, and War

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad 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, Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Excrement, Vomit, Colonisation, and Classism

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.75

my second favorite book of the series.
i loved basically everything about Heir of Fire, Celaena’s journey and development, Chaol’s inner struggle about where his loyalties actually lie, amazing new introduced characters and especially more magic content!!

i very much disliked everything surrounding Dorian and Sorsha, their POV chapters were so boring and absolutely pointless, she especially was such a dull and uninteresting character,

the only time i was interested in a scene with her in it was when she died.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-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

2.5

This took me a bit longer to get through. I felt like I was missing out on Easter eggs and Celaena's past due to me not reading the prequel to the Throne of Glass series, The Assassin's Blade. So I stopped around 50% and listened to that audio.

Heir of fire is a rocky transition through the series, with so many new characters being thrown at you. Along with grasping people in Aelin's life merging with those in Celaena's life. 🥵 

it's REALLY overwhelming😭😓 Especially Rowan's transformation...I still have no idea when that went down and literally questioned if he was a new character😅😭🤦🏽‍♀️

Then on top of that,  there are sprinkles from Manon's perspective. Celaena killing one of the iron teeth witches elder's stirred their cauldron. I think she alone should have been a novella within the series..unless there is one...I'm tired just thinking about it. 

I do love her creature/dragon companion Axbraxtos and them learning to trust each other. 

It literally felt like I was thrown from the ToG world and projected to the iron teeth witches world.

All I can recall at the end is Celaena/Aelin reconnecting with her true self and declaring war as terresan's lost queen....it's A LOT. 

I'll probably take a break from this series to gather my bearings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and War

sophiepeach'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, and Alcohol

mardorko's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol