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tasha_may's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Murder and Torture
Minor: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, and War
tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition
- 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
2.5
Graphic: Violence, Death, War, and Blood
Moderate: Grief and Gun violence
Minor: Sexual assault
_nem_'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? It's complicated
4.0
Tropes: Found Family
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Classism, War, Violence, Murder, Grief, Death, and Blood
ejspiese's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Child death, War, Death, and Gore
sguinn13'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
4.5
Graphic: War, Violence, Classism, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault
helenferg's review
- 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
Graphic: War, Grief, and Violence
Moderate: Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, and Murder
ladygetslit's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
That being said, I love the strong Girl Power themes of this duology and the interspersing of Latinx culture within the fantasy world. This series is worth reading if only for the f/f relationship and the intriguing discussion of males in political power and how they seem to want to build walls (physical and metaphorical) to keep poor folks disenfranchised.
Teacher Thoughts: probably better for high school rather than middle school. I could see male readers not enjoying this much, but I can also see the need for these types of stories.
Graphic: Classism, Violence, War, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, and Torture
monicalaurette'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? It's complicated
4.0
“But comfortable doesn’t win battles.”
“It makes you worthy of the title rebel.”
“But even through all of that, the sun was shining.”
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence
Moderate: Medical trauma, Medical content, Gun violence, Blood, Abandonment, and Death
Minor: Lesbophobia
honeyreads1066'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
This book changes the focus to follow Carmen instead of Dani which because of the way the last book ended I wasn't too keen on but I got used to it eventually. I like that we get to see the relationships that Carmen developed and also the way she felt about Dani. I'm kind of upset that this didn't have the same political stuff as the first one, I really enjoyed the sneaking around and trying to figure out certain things and this one was a lot more action.
I also didn't like that a few of the big twists at the end were really predictable and not in a satisfying way. I hoped that some things would come out of nowhere or there would be a massive curveball but nothing hit the way that some of the twists did in the first book.
I think overall this was an okay conclusion to the duology but because I loved the first one so much, with the change in story style and perspective, inevitably, I was never going to like the second one as much.
Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, War, and Violence
Minor: Homophobia
treeworms's review
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Violence, War, and Xenophobia
Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence