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Flamefall by Rosaria Munda

10 reviews

kate001's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death

Minor: Blood and Vomit

katrinarose's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

5.0

Wow. This had everything I was hoping for in the second book. An expansion of political intrigue, more difficult choices and moral ambiguity, another (great) POV, dragon fight scenes, further character development, and suspense. My heart was actually pounding in the last 75 pages! I absolutely cannot wait to start the final book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Torture, Murder, Blood, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

microbemom's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Vomit, Blood, Child death, Misogyny, Murder, Bullying, Violence, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

petra734's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Misogyny, Police brutality, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Animal death, Classism, and Grief

aseel_reads's review

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.25

Not me reading the last 10% in public and trying to contain my shock and stress because OMG PANIC!!! THINGS !! HAPPENED !! so yeah definitely did not see the ending coming, really liked the plot events but the book was a bit too slow for my liking and I kept wanting to think Lee's head, about to inhale the enxy book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War

katymat18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Graphic: Body horror, War, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit

martamae77's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Death, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

thenovelmaura's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.75

This eARC was gifted to me by Penguin Teen in exchange for an honest review! This is the sequel to Fireborne, and it was honestly a letdown because I loved the first book so much. The beginning of Flamefall seemed like a repeat of the first in terms of relationship dynamics and certain scenarios. It wasn't until the halfway point that the different plot threads came together and I was hooked in the way I've come to expect from Munda. There was also so much conflict in this book that could have been solved by communication (like, literally a single conversation) and I just didn't find that to be compelling. 

Some characters were still great and some characters still sucked, and that's all I'm going say about that. The action scenes were still amazing, as was the political climate (although I found some part of this repetitive as well). I'm still looking forward to the conclusion of the trilogy but this one definitely suffered from second book syndrome!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Coercive sexual relationship with unequal power dynamic

thebakerbookworm's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

Okay, I was kind of mediocre about this series after the first book, but hello, this book took me for a ride that I don't want to get off of!

There were plot twists within plot twists, and a lot happened to move the story along—there really aren't any dull moments here. I still love Annie and Lee, though I will say that Lee made some annoying choices in this one, and I was kinda glad that we didn't get his POV as much, thanks to the new POV character, Griff. I loved Griff and his whole story (Delo...), and I loved that his perspective gave us a new perspective on the war too, so the story could move beyond the one country of Callipolis. Also it brought more dragons!! And the dragons definitely feature more in this book than in the first.

Annie is still my favorite character, and I loved her growth in this book. Her struggles, her quiet resilience, the choices she's forced to make—I just love her so much. Also, I'm ready for Crissa to have her own POV because she was a real MVP for most of the book and she deserves it.

So basically, no middle-book syndrome here. And of course the cliffhanger ending I did not see coming—book three doesn't come out till next year and color me very upset about this fact!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Violence

betweentheshelves's review

adventurous emotional tense 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

4.0

For some reason, I thought this was a duology and with that ending, it most definitely is not. Which is a good thing! Munda has created this really intricate world, and there are a lot of great discussions in here about power, power structures, and what happens when societies rebuild after a revolution. Adding the third point of view in this book helped to round out the overall story, and I need to know what happens next! 

Also, I was worried I wouldn't remember enough of the first book, meaning I would be lost in this one. But I most definitely wasn't! I was pleased with how the beginning helped to remind the reader what happened at the end of the first book. If you're looking for great YA about dragons, I definitely recommend this one! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Violence and Death