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dododenise'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
3.5
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Death of parent and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: War
maregred's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Death of parent
Minor: Alcohol
katbotelho's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Also, I love a good story romantic subplot with loads of yearning. And I’m truly living for this kingdom being run by the fruitiest little twink bard to ever live.
Graphic: War and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Blood
lightoferebus's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: War and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Minor: Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism
bree_h_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore and Sexual content
Minor: Homophobia
mrshays's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and War
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Gore, Homophobia, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
wildflowersnwhiskey's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and War
Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Sibling death, sibling murderrobin_reads'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? No
4.75
This was a lovely read. Very enjoyable. The pacing was just right and the characters were lovely. No notes.
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia
piperclover's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.0
I don't think this is particularly innovative or exceptional in any way because it really is just your standard high fantasy kingdom story about who gets the throne and revolts with a romance thrown in. It is just fun though because it's so immersive and because I love this narrato a lot so I think that added to the immersion for me.
I really enjoyed it as Zavrius and Balen as a couple. This isn't a romance with fantasy but rather a fantasy with romance so we didn't get as much of their relationship as I would've liked.
My big complaints though are that I feel like this is too long-winded in its descriptions. We would get 2 or 3 pages of descriptions of a new town setting or a new room or a new building and I just found it to be such an inundation of information and I couldn't picture any of it anyway so I found it was skipping forward a lot of times. This along with the fact that some of the chapters were an hour-long and all of them generally too long meant that I just found it to be slow in an unenjoyable way for a bit in the middle.
I also wish that
Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail
marleywrites's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Sexual content and Blood
Moderate: Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail