Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

14 reviews

onefineelephant's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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

4.0

8/10. This book/series really continues to surprise me. It is one of those rare books where at no point am I sure where the plot is going (in a good way) but I am so enthralled the whole time. For reasons other than the book, I was having a hard time getting through the book but every time I opened it and actually started reading, I never wanted to stop. I am gonna be honest, I missed Harper and Rhen but I loved seeing things from Grey's POV. I also wasn't sure how I would feel about Lia Mara, but I ended up enjoying her perspective as well. I somewhat predicted/hoped for what ended up happening at the end of the book with Grey and Lia Mara about Karis Luran (no spoilers) but the very ending with Rhen almost blindsided me fr (again, no spoilers). I am very interested to see what in the world is going to happen in the next book because I genuinely have no idea.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Alcohol, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Vomit and Animal cruelty

cloudbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Blood

jackiepreston's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Death of parent, and Death

qrschulte's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I think I liked this one more than the last one. And again, I called the big reveals. 

Things I liked:
- GREY!!!
- Iisak. More of him please
- Jake‘s redemption. 
- The romance actually made sense and had some chemistry and a bit of steam. 

Things I didn’t like:
- The Lia Mara narrator made the girls sound waaaay younger than they were supposed to be. She also was a bit melodramatic, either with a laugh in her voice or like a swoon teen, which was a little much for my tastes. 
- The torture
- The 180 degree flip of characterizations of Harper and Rhen, which I guess is only slightly explained. Especially after Rhen’s character growth in the last book. And Harper being okay with Rhen’s behavior after giving her brother (warranted) shit in the first book? Makes no sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Blood, Body shaming, Murder, Violence, War, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Medical content, Abandonment, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Chronic illness

katievallin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Torture, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Pregnancy and Sexual content

annorabrady's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

I loved the romance in this book better than it's predecessor, however the actions of Rhen and the inactions of Harper were frustrating. Especially knowing what we know of Harper from the first book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal cruelty, and War

bzliz's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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

3.0

This book flirts a little too closely to Game of Thrones territory for me at times, with brutal consequences for kindness or naïveté. 

In developing Grey’s character, I feel like Harper’s character dulled greatly.

I find it really hard to believe that she would want to stay with Rhen when she is aware of his brutal actions against his subjects, despite not knowing that Lilith is still alive and doing something to manipulate his actions. Her family suffered trauma caused by her father’s actions and saw her brother turned into a puppet forced to threaten and possibly commit violent acts against people. It doesn’t make sense that she would stand by Rhen’s side as he- from her point of view- tries to rally his people by allowing some to be brutalized or murdered because he’s afraid of magic.

Lia Mara is the kind of protagonist I can’t help but like- she’s kind, clever and pragmatic despite her upbringing. Her mother makes too perfect a villain. It’s borderline offensive how one dimensional she is. 

Despite it all, I did enjoy this and it was worth the couple hours I spent reading it and I care just enough to read the next one also. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, and Emotional abuse

scarlett_f's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol and Death

Minor: Confinement

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