Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

81 reviews

catastrophiclyss's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kelisabeth's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kmac14's review against another edition

4.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, War

evgeorge's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 45%

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I LOVED ACOMAF and really like ACOTAR. ACOWAR isn’t a shadow of the quality of those 2 books. Maas could take out 350 pages and have an engaging, interesting book. I couldn’t get through all the discussion, flirting, pining, fretting to enjoy anything but the first 100 pages. I won’t be reading book 4. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood

lizard800's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Each book in the series keeps improving (which doesn't mean a lot really because this isn't a great series overall). The writing in this one is better, even though there are still overused phrases ('I could have sworn that...' being one that came up a lot). Maas backed away from overuse of ellipses and em dashes, so that was nice. Still some incomplete sentences, but again not as bad as previous books.

Writing aside, the story in this book is pretty good honestly. Lots of twists and turns that you don't see coming, which I enjoyed. I do think the book could have been a LOT shorter (a theme with this series) and still told the same story.

One thing that i still don't understand is how the Carver got out of prison? I thought the mirror was just to get him to agree, but I wasn't clear on how he actually removed himself?

I also thought that the father returning at the end was kind of stupid. Rolled my eyes at that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, War

druzyquartz's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

crunchwrapper's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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That was literally such a good time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

Minor: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

kmthorson2's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abandonment, Alcohol

strange_abalone's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

krosebooks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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: N/A

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The ending of the book had a lot happening. My brain kinda hurts. But I also couldn’t put it down. Great book kinda long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism