Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

123 reviews

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

found Feyre a much more barrable character in this book. Her jello spine eventually became steel and she got some of her sh*t together. Rhysand was delightful in the last book and I loved all the “screen time” he got in this book. As with any book by Sarah, you will be endlessly blue-balled. Her sex scenes are more explicit than usual but everyone freaking out that teens shouldn’t be reading this, obviously forgot a lot of people start masturbating in middle school and f*cking in high school. If it’s not your thing though just skip ahead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Confinement, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Death, and Misogyny

Minor: Domestic abuse and War

wafer's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

3.0

Oh, I have so many thoughts. Too many. Hey, it’s a huge improvement from the first book! 

Clearly, Maas is doing something right. I like a lot of what’s going on here. I think the politics are fun and the ending hook promising. There’s a handful of characters here that I enjoy, particularly Mor and Lucien. Nesta as well! What a glow-up!

But the writing is just so, so blah. As repetitious in its diction (how many dogs does Feyre have in those bones of hers?) as well as its blocking. Maas has a really bad habit of having her side characters trauma dump and Feyre have some sort of physical reaction to it. And that’s a shame! Because there are parts that I think are written well. She just needs a tighter editor to reign it all in and cut a good couple hundo pages from the manuscript.

I also feel the need to point out, and I don’t think she did this on purpose, but Maas absolutely took the concept of the dying stars and the house of mist from the first and third books of the Howl’s Moving Castle series. If I wanted to be a little catty, I’d extend that to the dreamlike castle in the sky imagery as well. 

Eh, the gender essentialism is ever-present. I guess Maas is just allergic to the words ‘man’ and ‘woman’ but what can you do, really? I found myself getting used to it, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. It’s omegaverse lite, is what it is. I won’t even go into the ham-fisted milady feminism by way of Rhysand - many others will and have probably done a better job of that than me.

I had fun though, you know? And that’s the point at the end of the day. Having fun. A good, light time. Escapism?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

graceskate's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Was not expecting to like this as much as I did. The characterization of one character in particular

(Tamlin)

dramatically changes from the first book. I think the second and third books in this series work very well together but are sort of disconnected from the first book.

If there had been bigger red flags with Tamlin in the first book or moments where the mask slipped a bit him turning into an abusive prick would have made more sense. Book 1 Tamlin and Book 2 + 3 Tamlin are very different characters and makes the first book feel disconnected. I like book 1 on it’s own and I like books 2 and 3 together but when you put the whole series together the jump between 1 and 2 doesn’t really make sense.

Besides that I enjoyed the books if you can pretend

Tamiln was showing more signs of being abusive in the first book and accept that you aren’t really going to see his character develop in that direction

then it’s pretty good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Racism, Mental illness, and Sexism

Minor: Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Eating disorder, Torture, Gore, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Stalking

kay_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Torture, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Misogyny, Slavery, Racism, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Grief, and Vomit

waterwolves's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, War, Confinement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

shaunaxx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Grief, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, War, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

pernillelsk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Moderate: War, Xenophobia, Genocide, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Eating disorder

timbsy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Vomit

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Sexism

dalek_caan's review against another edition

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book was amazing, usually I'm skeptical of middle books in a series but this one genuinely progressed the plot in an interesting and necessary way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Blood, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Mental illness, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Confinement

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

amutrion's review against another edition

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

A egomaniac trying to control and manipulate the FMC and justify his actions UTM, such as drugging, SA-ing and humiliating and the FMC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Sexual harassment