Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

123 reviews

l6zarras's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence

Moderate: Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War

danicorm's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual violence

murphysmomreads's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault

anndreya's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Miscarriage, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, War

tammyreadsalot's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

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Favorite of the series so far. The character growth in this portion of the story was amazing. Manon was an absolute standout character.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

frawst_disasta_reads's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Aelin comes across as spoiled and unable to take responsibility for anything, which is why I didn’t rate it 5.

But, other than Rowan, I loved every other character.  The plot kept me engaged and I definitely cried at certain points.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, War

Minor: Alcohol

chandler_reads123's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

dragonaion's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective 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

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This book is a heay read, and not just because of the content, but because we see the next stage, yet again, in Aelin's journey. As soon as I started this book, I was prepared for some of the plot, but the execution, the character growth, and beautiful weaving of love, emotional growth, change, and power towards the underlying plot of the story was delightfully surprising. Steel yourself, because in this book we see what everyone is fighting for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting

Minor: Ableism, Slavery

This book has content that can be triggering and is not an easy read: one character explaining how they fell in love, were pregnant, gave birth to a stillborn, we're brutally punished and branded before being abandoned to die.

coffiend's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, War, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Abandonment

annniee's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, War, Classism