Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout

60 reviews

glddstwmn's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Like if Rae Dunn wrote Twilight.

I really wanted to like this, I enjoyed the first one and was excited to see where this led, the story itself us interesting enough but good lord, the characters have become INSUFFERABLE. 

Poppy is such a pick-me, all of their personalities (Poppy/Cas/Keiran) fell flat, they were all written in the same tone. Keiran was particularly annoying, I wanted to like him but it was the same conversation over and over and it was CRINGE af anytime he interacted with Poppy. 
This is a direct quote (no spoilers but I will put in a spoiler tag anyways)

“That’s an incredibly random question.”

It was. “I’m beginning to realize I’m an incredibly random person.”

This type of interaction of Poppy desperately trying to be qUiRkY and not-like-other-girls™️ was painful. She reminds me of Boxxy. 

Also, Malik's name was spelled both with c and a k, interchangeably throughout and I found the way that the dialogue was written made it unclear of who was speaking. 

Honestly, not sure if I will continue this series and if I do, I will DNF immediately if literally ANYONE mentions how many questions Poppy asks (is that not how conversation works??) Keiran and Cas are starting to give me the ick, and give off "hewwo pwincess" *tips fedora* type vibes and I was cringing hard in the annotations the entire time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic relationship, War, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Torture, Slavery, and Sexism

Minor: Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Rape

dubious consent

th3bookthief's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Grief, and Death

bookishmind_13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: War, Emotional abuse, Torture, Animal death, Murder, Child death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Grief, Confinement, Mental illness, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

vettechmama3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

Poppy and Casteel keep me on my toes with their banter and make me laugh a lot. I like where their story is going so much more in this book than from B&A. There definitely were some dull parts that probably could have been left out to make the flow consistent. But for the most part, it rebounded quickly and kept me intrigued 😊 Once again, I loved the supporting characters and have enjoyed this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, and Blood

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Child death, and Bullying

Minor: Cursing, Confinement, and Cannibalism

dlsmk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Body shaming, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, Child death, Murder, Violence, and Death

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

selestre's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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: Injury/Injury detail, War, Cursing, Blood, Grief, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Body shaming

Mentions of past SA.

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

5.0

Best filler book I've ever read 🫶🏻

Things we don't have: 

• plot

Things we do have:

• Sexual tension
• Lots of traveling (is there a "only one horse" trope?)
• Casteel once again murdering people for Poppy
• Weirdly sexual but hot scenes of Casteel drinking Poppy's blood
• Kieran and Casteel obvi being ready for a threesome
• Casteel caring for Poppy's wounds *sobs*
• yeah i think that's it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, Child death, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death

The rape tag is for a veryyy dubcon scene between Poppy & Casteel

meghan1111's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, War, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Child death, Physical abuse, Torture, and Slavery

ofmeganreads's review against another edition

It was too much yes and no. The I hate you and the Oh his eyes and that I want you. I don't like the sexual content. I always skip pages, but this just felt like horny characters that don't know how to control themselves and have a civilized conversation. Plus, the gruesome history of the kingdom is too much to handle. It just isn't a book for me and I normally enjoy fantasy novels with enemies to lovers. This book is a walking disaster of triggers that I couldn't continue reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, Blood, Body horror, War, Death of parent, Body shaming, Genocide, Child abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

butilikeit's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Blood, Death, Confinement, Violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape