Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Fireborne by Rosaria Munda

16 reviews

embee09's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Classism, War, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

star_charter152's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, Classism, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Child death

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders

kal517's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

royalwaves's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I wasn’t that invested for over half of the book but the last section sold me. And I’m looking forward to continuing with the trilogy.

This is yet another book that has gotten me to tear up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Murder

0rdinaryreader's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I think this is the best book I’ve read this year. The characters are so well fleshed out, their struggles believable, the stakes believable and thorough. I am deeply impressed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: War

Minor: Murder, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

katrinarose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

Excellent fantasy with complex political intrigue that didn’t fall into obvious good vs evil “sides”. The character development was excellent and I enjoyed both POVs. I liked that it wasn’t romance-heavy, especially in a world/situation with such high stakes. The dragons were an interesting element in this world too, and I hope the next books expand more on the dragon and rider relationship. The only thing that keeps it from 5 stars from me is that it definitely felt like a book that is meant to be a build up to the next books in the series. Even the big final scene in the book was a little short and anticlimactic after all the events that led it there. I’m excited to read the next one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Classism, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Blood

mysterymom40's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Fire/Fire injury, War, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

aseel_reads's review

adventurous challenging dark reflective 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

This book gives me such Russian Revolution with dragon vibes, but maybe that's just me. I can also understand how this is a better version of Fourth Wing. The bigger focus on actual dragon riding/fighting was really cool to see, the actual impact of the war and the horrors they have to commit was deeply gripping, and the struggle of our two main characters and whether they can accept and move on after what their families have experienced? Captivating. Definitely had some "hands to mouth" moments which is always fun and very excited to start the second book immediately. Will say that the beginning is a little hard to get through, but you'll be hooked after 15%. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Bullying, Blood, War, Vomit, Medical content, Violence, Sexism, Police brutality, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Child death

k_wage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, and Genocide

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Grief, and War

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Panic attacks/disorders

calmcozycorner's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The more I think about this book, the more I come to the conclusion that it was kind of.. disappointing. I thought the premise was interesting at first, but I found the story to be pretty slow. It just didn't feel like a whole lot happened until the very end. There was also a lot of non-verbal communication, which I do often appreciate, but there was so much of it here that I found myself wanting the characters to just speak to each other directly. 

This also read like an adult novel, which sometimes made it awkward that the main characters were teenagers. Half the time they were expected to behave like adult military personnel and other times they were discounted because of their age (i.e., "The physician stares at her, like he doesn't quite believe a second underage person is volunteering out of turn.") It made the story less believable to me. There were a few adult characters who were supposedly given supervisory roles, but they didn't seem to do much. I didn't buy that a group of 16-17 year olds were solely responsible for the defense of an entire city. 

I will probably continue on to the next book, as I'm curious where it will go from here, but I will definitely be taking a break before then.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Classism, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence