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quinnyquinnquinn'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
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Homophobia, Murder, Violence, War, and Sexual content
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
slee907's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Violence and Confinement
pitsikakku's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Confinement, Grief, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, War, Violence, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery
Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Death of parent
menomica's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
He knows now the word for the soaring feeling he gets in his chest every time he looks at his squire. He knows now the name of the song his body sings when he touches his friend. It is love. And it is impossible.
Once you know and understand that this book was originally a stucky fanfic everything clicks. Like once you see and accept that it’s a repackaged
That being said, I would argue this book does manage to stand on its own. Like for me at least I enjoyed watching
Idk I liked it. Wouldn’t be mad if there was a sequel 🤷🏾♀️.
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, and War
Moderate: Confinement, Murder, Grief, Alcohol, and Blood
Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy
marioncromb's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
This was one of those unputdownable, breeze-through reads for me, very readable prose, characters i cared about, interesting historical setting, captivating romance. But i had one big problem with it.
For me, there were just far too many sex scenes. This was maybe slightly balanced out for me by having a canon asexual side character, but only slightly, as they are a side character and their asexuality almost just seemed like more of a plot device not to get in the way of the main couple. And the sex scenes were very idealised and explicit, basically just porn:
To give you an idea of how much. This is a book of four roughly equal quarters:
First quarter: plot: a young knight tries to befriend his prisoner
Second quarter: basically just porn, just so much porn
Third quarter: mostly porn, some plot
Last quarter: thankfully back to mostly plot and only some porn
For a 500+ page book, its a lot of porn. But if you like that sort of thing definitely give it a go because i found it very enjoyable otherwise
Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, and Physical abuse
Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Outing, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment