Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

23 reviews

kellicat94's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and War

booksanna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

An emotional wreck that sparked feelings of euphoria in me. I can only explain the plot-twists as cliche and both not cliche. I love the bond between the characters. Main character is op. This also has the most holy friendship I’ve ever seen. When the attack on defender happened i wanted to wreck my soul in piece. Only minus was there was a lot of inappropriate language, but honestly the swear words and everything suited the book well. I loved the relationship between people. The plot is a chef’s kiss. 5/5 because it was super good. And the suspense was good to, and sacred Urd the foreshadowing is crazzzzyy. Like really messed up stuff that you remember mid story that wrecks the hole perspective of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

withyrwyther's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This book somehow manages to be fast paced and filled with absolutely nothing at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Simply put, this book is a mess. The only positive thing it has going for it are that the concepts had the potential to be good, but these were wasted in favor of filler scenes and dick jokes.