Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Cinder & Ella by Kelly Oram

7 reviews

moendchen's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad 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

5.0

Hadn’t expected to love it this much, but was heartbroken when it reached the end and I couldn’t hear more about cinder & ella

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

aelin_morgenstern's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

pages0of0my0life's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Car accident, Death of parent, and Bullying

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

hmg's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

emi_17's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Bullying

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, and Homophobia

itsrocio's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

Me encanto! Un romance juvenil muy tierno y con ese aire de cuento de hadas. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

sonshinelibrarian's review against another edition

4.25

Reread 2024: I definitely picked up on some problematic issues this time through. I still adore the friendships and the geekiness and the meeting-through-blogs-anonymously aspect.

However, Brian's character is a little troubling on this reread. I'm not a fan of the way he treats basically any woman except Ella - there's this through-line that he's so heart-broken from losing her that he goes on this womanizing rampage and it's sort of just brushed aside as a boys-will-be-boys kind of thing. There's a sort of excuse that Ella is "different" and that's why he treats all other women as disposable playthings or catty witches. Now, the way he is with Ella is adorable and wonderful, and I think that's what I focused on in the past. Also, Ella's perception of everyone in California as heart-stoppingly beautiful is frustrating, but I will say that I think Ella is actually an unreliable narrator who can't see anyone else in her life objectively, and a big part of her growth is starting to realize that her vision is wildly skewed. So I'd give this complaint a bit of a pass because I do think that a lot of what Ella thinks is true isn't actually true.

So, on the one hand I still adore this book. I still plan to reread it again next February. But on the other hand, it has some flaws that don't hold up very well.

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Reread 2023: This is probably my favorite YA contemporary romance. I love the geekiness and the friendships and Ella and Brian and - it's just wonderful

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There are so, so many things I love about this book. I love the friendship - the honest to goodness actual real-feeling friendship between Cinder and Ella. I love the journey Ella takes. I love the tension and struggle between her and her dad and her dad's family. I love the homage to Cinderella while not feeling at all like an actual Cinderella retelling. I just love so many things about this book. Not the least of which is Brian *sigh*

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm

Minor: Car accident and Death of parent