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hapalyn'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
5.0
The way I loved the adventure and build up to a bigger plotline, and I really enjoyed the found family aspect with the "mercenaries". The FMC is intelligent and I love the heart of gold she has! I also really enjoy the magic she possesses, it's really unique compared to other fantasy FMCs I've read lately!
A couple of reveals lined up to be a little too coincidental for me, but I think the enjoyment I experienced throughout the read made up for the lack of believability in some areas (and, well it's fantasy so it's not necessarily believable anyways). The twist with the MMC had me intrigued because while I somewhat expected it, I think part of me didn't want to at the same time. I'm very interested to see the resolution between FMC AND MMC, but I'm not looking forward to reading 500 pages to get there... lol.
I will be continuing with this series and enjoying the different characters!
Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Alcohol
Minor: Rape, Death of parent, and Vomit
For fire injury: there are people executed by being burned alive For rape/sexual assault: there's implications of side characters being rapists, and there is an attempted sexual assault/rape + attempted murder of FMC towards the first half of the bookcarol_marie'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
4.25
Graphic: Sexual content and Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, and Death
Minor: Grief
elntastic's review
- 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
3.75
However; the story was definitely nothing new. Everything that happened was more or less foreseeable. The world-building wasn’t very detailed.
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Violence
Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
Minor: Vomit, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts
knottygeek's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Murder, Religious bigotry, Classism, and Sexual content
Moderate: Confinement, Suicide attempt, Blood, Torture, and Child death
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Medical content
dxisymitch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, Genocide, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Grief, Confinement, War, and Injury/Injury detail
altarbunny'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Child death and Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing, Violence, Death, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, and Confinement
Minor: Sexual assault
unboundbooklover'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
3.5
Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent, Gore, and Grief
maggies's review
- 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
Graphic: Murder, Grief, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Child death, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent
screenqueen24's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
It's been quite predictable, the foreshadowing is a bit too blatant at times but with that cliffhanger ending, I'm already ready to press play on the 2nd in this series. Hoping for more danger, less obvious reveals and some more badass moments for our FMC.
Prisca is a bad-ass delight though...she's smart, devious, calculating, brave and she's clearly more than she seems. She's sassy, full of banter (especially with Lorian😂) and someone you don't want to cross!
Very intrigued to see what she does, who she allies with and how as the series progresses. 4 books and the 3rd to be published later in Jan!
It's got some spice, but it's slow burn.
Moderate: War, Death of parent, and Violence
katvou'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
4.25
Mostly I really liked the book and the FMC. The pace was a bit slow to my taste in the middle of the book and it felt like there wasn’t really anything interesting going on but I liked both the beginning and end. End had some nice twist, some I was able to guess beforehand but some were a surprise.
Definitely going to read the rest of the series.
Graphic: Grief, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
Minor: Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Vomit, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment, Excrement, Medical content, Rape, Body horror, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship