Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

802 reviews

alanna23's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Death, Gore, and Blood

shannonredwine8's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

4.0

The only reason I didn't give this amazing book 5 stars is because it had several scenes of detailed animal death. Most of them were the same scene over & over. Unnecessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Murder, Bullying, Blood, Confinement, Physical abuse, Body horror, Classism, and Death

callmetheyo's review against another edition

Wasn't really into the  romance.  I thought it would be subtle, but its kinda graphic in some parts.  Also the plot is pretty basic and predictable.  I already knew what was going to happen within the first 2ish chapters and didn't really want to stick around to see if I was right. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Sexual content

ebunny_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, Death, Blood, Classism, Abandonment, and Murder

mflores1215's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Alcohol, Blood, War, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment

weirdemosrus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Torture, Racism, Blood, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Slavery and Confinement

maddielags's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book had me feeling all the emotions. From sadness, to anger, to more sadness and to hopefulness, I didn’t want this book to end but at the same time, I needed to know what happened. I understand the hype. This was my first adult fantasy book and it did not disappoint!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Confinement, Torture, Violence, and Body horror

precy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.75

I only liked the middle of the book and some chapters by the end, the rest is too slow pace, very weak plot, and some moments I felt bad reading it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

kyeruhh's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

2.0

The good:

• The lore was interesting
• I liked many of the side characters 

The not so good:

• Feyre was unbelievably annoying
• She was also so dense (the riddle????? Girl.)
• The first 270 pages were exposition and the actual conflict wasn’t explained until a character info dumped fae history to Feyre
• It’s an adult book written at a high middle grade/low YA level

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual content

miss_berry315's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

3.75

Okay look, I really struggled through the first 45% of this book bc it was so boring and Feyre was so annoying and dumb. Like, I wanted to bang my head against a wall for how boring and slow moving the first almost half of this book was. Like, let's be real, it didn't get interesting until Rhys showed up. All the action is packed into the last half of the book, so much so that the book could have easily been like 50 pages shorter and done the same thing. 
A lot of stuff just doesn't make sense with Feyre as a character: why does she not feel any anger towards her family for treating her poorly and not appreciating her? Why does she only use her survival instincts and hunting knowledge occasionally? Why does she act like she's being held captive when they were nothing but nice to her??? 
But the story definitely got better in the second half, and was saved by Lucien and Rhys. I'm only giving it more than 3 ⭐ bc of those two. 
Definitely a bit cheesy at times, you can definitely see the Beauty and the Beast retelling throughout, but I think it was done fairly well overall (again, if the beginning was shorter and Feyre plugged in her brain, it would have gotten like 4.5 stars)

I get the hype now, though. Im excited to see where this series goes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, Confinement, Grief, Torture, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol and Sexual content