Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

40 reviews

kyahs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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? No

5.0

If a book could be more than 5 stars this one would be. Maybe I need to go back and rate all other books less... Hours sitting in one place reading this as a whole world full of people, lives, magic, love and loss tumble off the pages and through my mind. It is a book that will trap you between the pages and have you forgetting you are not a member of the Night Court. This book is magnificent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, War, Xenophobia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Child death

paigeinabook's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 of parent, Dysphoria, Excrement, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, War, Alcohol, Body shaming, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Body horror, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Blood, Colonisation, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Slavery, and Child death

sparetimebibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I liked this! Some points felt drawn out, but I loved the story and the various elements to it. I also liked the glimpse into the other courts. Overall a great addition to the series and look forward to what happens next! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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

Graphic: Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Drug use, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Gore, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Biphobia, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, and War

lanyamkelly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-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

3.75

i think this book did a great job at really painting a clear picture for each scene, which was gorgeous. i love that it kept up with feyre painting ideas. it was SUPPERRRRR slow to start and action packed for sure. it mainly takes place during war or in preparation for war. 

i loved how it took me through a rollercoaster of emotions but the plot felt sort of unrealistic?

</spoiler\>how do all these people die and all and yet all of the main characters are left unscathed from the war ? like with Rhysand and Amren  at the end of the book. as much as it would've pained me to lose any of them why did all of them survive? im not going to lie, i literally sobbed reading that he died but as soon as they started giving the light i was like ?!? WHAT. played w my heart for that</spoiler/>

i will say i did enjoy all the plot twists and i was shocked at almost all of them. this book was really good! the second one is still probably my favorite, but this was still a great read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, War, and Violence

Moderate: Grief and Sexual content

merenguita's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Okay so I liked it overall I guess, I mostly enjoyed it but I don't think it's a very good ending to this story (I know there are more books but the arc that was building up for now ends here) and there was a lot of missed potential. 
First of all I don't think Sarah J. Maas knows hot to write action properly, which would be fine if the whole ending of the book wasn't set up to be a full on war. So we get to just watch from afar for most of it because Feyre doesn't really fight much and even when she participates it's quite boring tbh. The scene in the second book where Feyra defends Velaris is a lot better so I don't know why this was so boring for me. 
Also I think there are some scenes that are there just to shock the reader and don't really make sense

Like when Feyra doesn't tell Rhysand or anybody about the Bone Carver, I get why she doesn't say anyhting before but she should've said somehting after so that the soldiers are prepared! same thing for Rhysand and his bargain with the Weaver

 
And the romance also became kind of stale, there wasn't much development and Rhysand kinda bored me in this book tbh... but Tamlin became an intresting character so it was fine. 
I will say something good: There were some scenes that were *chef's kiss* and got me on the edge of my seat, when there are politics discussions, all the history and different characters being put in the open was very intresting.
And then there are some choices for the ending that I didn't like or even kind of pissed me off, that made no sense in my opinion. 
About Rhysand:

He should've died honestly... if you're going to get him to give everything in him so he has a dying scene and nobody can do anything about it AND even say that the magic that turned Feyre shouldn't work, well, IT SHOULDN'T WORK. Fake out deaths can be done correctly and this is not it

About Amren and the stakes of the war:

Again, she should've died, it was kinda emotional, gave her a good ending, a good ending speech I think, it made sense that she was the one to create the turning point to win the war and then she's just back... just like that. And her + Rhysand coming back to life, Cassian surviving when EVERYBODY said he wouldn't... in the end no one important dies and the war doesn't really feel that devastating

About the dad:

So yeah, he dies but I don't think he counts as an important character, so the last statement stands, but I would like to say i quite liked that he reappeared and got a chance to talk to his daughters and that Nesta gets so emotionally hurt after everything, it makes sense and I like it

About Lucien:

SO MUCH MISSED POTENTIAL, I wish he would've been more present for the story, so that we could see some character growth but instead we just get him pining over Elain just 'coz they're mates (I don't like the mate system in general)

 
About Tamlin:

I think I liked his arch in general, because it was more dynamic and intresting than most of the characters but his ending was a bit underwhelming... I think it would've been fine if he just hugged or tried to apologise to Lucien and had stated to heal the relationship with his best friend

So yeah... Maybe it deserves less than 3 stars but because I have more trouble with the second half of the book than the first, which I enjoyed more so that's what I'm giving it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Violence, War, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child death

tierneymichele's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-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

5.0

This book gave me so much satisfaction- the plotting and revenge are beautiful to me, regardless of consequences. Another masterpiece.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Child death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Genocide, Death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Kidnapping, and Grief

cuteasamuntin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Child death, Medical content, Confinement, Death of parent, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Torture, Grief, and Cursing

louisa_pennyfeather2021's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

This book brought out something in me. I am so far behind on my college work right now because I was desperate to finish this book. It's so well thought out and meticulously planned. It's beautiful and terrible all at once, but in the best ways possible. The characters are so easy to love and any betrayal is easy to feel on the part of the reader. 

I've never been the type of person to reread books, but I'd willingly read these over and over and over again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, Sexism, Sexual content, Murder, and War

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Classism and Child death

arys_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

Amazing! Second favorite in the series now, mist and fury being first. It is more plot and war based than character based which I didn’t think I would love as much as I did. I’m not one for battle scenes, reading them can be tough to get through, but I loved these. They were so descriptive and made me feel like I was watching it through a screen. Didn’t think war would be one of my favorite things about the book but the writing was just perfect. And the character building; even with less character building focus, it was amazing. It was found family mixed with actual blood family and it was beautiful. Amazing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Genocide, War, Violence, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Vomit, Child death, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Biphobia, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Infidelity