Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin

68 reviews

thewhitebat's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

4.5

4.25 Stars.

• Complex and intricate characters.
• Amazing world building.
• Great writing.
• Can be outdated. 
• Misogyny was not written in the best way by the author, who uses sexual assault as a casual plot device. 
• You can consider some racist and overly simplified depictions of certain peoples.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, and War

Moderate: Gaslighting and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

vrie's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, War, Animal death, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Physical abuse, Grief, Incest, Kidnapping, Blood, Slavery, Trafficking, Body horror, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape

Minor: Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Bullying

hanyentreletras's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Pensaba darle 4 estrellas (igual estoy siendo bastante buena) por lo del CAWPILE peeeero esas escenas super sexuales de Danny mmmm no.

Mi mayor miedo cuando comencé este libro fue que iba a ser demasiado, por como pintan a George y toda la saga, que no iba a entenderlo, etc. La verdad es que... no lo es, es súper sencillo. Puedes perderte es con los nombres y los árboles genealógicos.

Siento que en este primer libro la fantasía está menos presente de lo que, posiblemente, va a estar más adelante.

Danny es mi personaje favorito pero leerla también es un dolor porque, mientras a Catelyn y Ned le dan escenas tipo <estaban desnudos porque esa noche habían hecho el amor, a Danny (que es una NIÑA) le ponen escena muuuuuy explícitas. Sé que van a poner de excusa que es porque es por los dothraki pero lo lamento, esa no es excusa suficiente para que la única persona que tiene escenas sexuales explícitas en el libro sea una niña de 13/14 años🤢🤮 Igual estoy orgullosa de ella por todo lo que logró.

Entiendo que para algunos Ned sea su personaje favorito pero, la razón por la que me costó leerlo en dos meses fue porque en enero llegué a una parte donde sus pov's están muy presentes y 💤

Sansa se merece mis disculpas públicas, cuando ví la serie no me caía pero leyéndola me duele😞

La amistad de Jon y Sam 🔝

En fin, lo disfruté y otras veces se me hizo eterno, dependía del pov.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Slavery, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Medical content, Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Death, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

zhanacox0920's review

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

4.5

Because I watched the show, the book was easy to keep up with. If you never saw the show then take your time. Im actually pretty glad that the show stuck to the main idea of the series. There were a couple of small things that were not mentioned in the show that I actually appreciated. 

Overall pretty great writing, world building and amazing character development. I hate almost every character beside Eddard and Jon and Bran. Again, if you never seen the show, TAKE YOUR TIME WITH THE STORY.  I would say write a summery after each chapter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Abandonment, Animal death, War, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Misogyny, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Rape, Incest, Classism, Slavery, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Injury/Injury detail

livd1200's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Sexual assault, Slavery, Incest, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, War, Rape, and Torture

veskumelooni's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Pregnancy, Murder, Incest, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, Animal death, Sexism, Slavery, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

moriahleigh's review

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, War, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Slavery, Animal death, Blood, and Incest

triangular_pascal's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• 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

4.5

Loved this more than I expected to - I'm hooked! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, Death, Sexual violence, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Infidelity, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Incest, War, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, and Sexism

queenpebbles's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Violence, Slavery, and War

Minor: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Ableism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Classism

jdromsky's review against another edition

It was just sooo similar to the show that I wasn’t getting anything new in the story to inspire me to keep going (which is definitely more a commentary on the diligence and attention to detailed paid to the story by the show than anything else.). On the whole not a bad book but just too similar for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Sexual violence, Infidelity, War, Incest, Violence, Pregnancy, Murder, and Rape

My only other comment would be there is some questionable language describing characters with disabilities or otherwise. And language used to talk about women made me slightly uncomfortable (this coming from a female identifying person).