Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

116 reviews

aklovekorn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

****The dog does NOT die****

meg_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is hard for me to rate because I've let it linger for a bit before actually reviewing it and it is so deeply forgettable. There was one larger chunk of the book that I enjoyed and it was after a major event occurs and our main character begins to go a bit unhinged with her rage and grief. Loved this part of the story for sure, but the overwhelming majority of the book ebbed and flowed into portions I truly could not have given a shit about. And the reveal at the end of the book is hard for me to review as well because if I'd read this series as it was coming out I'm sure it would have been shocking and intriguing but as someone who was way late to the party I already knew about this plot point and found it to be very meh. I'm going to continue reading the series and see how I feel after the next book before deciding if I'm going to continue on. I think that my overall feelings on the first two books so far is that these books definitely aren't bad but I'm not loving them by any means either. So basically just kind of mediocre for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Grief, and Murder

faduma's review against another edition

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

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

polarbbp's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Sexism, Torture, Violence, and Murder

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Slavery and Grief

Minor: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

lux_ludicro'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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

sydapel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

I did cry over a lot of this book, as SJM is able to make me care about her characters despite my misgivings. I felt very jerked around by this story, both plot and character development wise, but ultimately understand what people are saying about the story getting better as it progresses. However, her treatment of her one character of color in this book is really difficult to support and definitely needs to be highlighted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content and Slavery

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Rating: 5/5 stars.

Splendid, perfect, marvelous, a bunch more adjectives. I was already enjoying this series but this is definitely the one that truly hooked me after the midway point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

shyannereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content

nicolastrouse's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Rape and Kidnapping