Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

88 reviews

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-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? No

5.0

What. A. Finale. 
And what a series!!! SJM did it again, closing the Throne of Glass series with one for the books (ba-dum-tss 🥁). I did not expect to be sucked into not one, but two SJM series and be held in a chokehold by them. But here we are… I loved this series. 

I was utterly immersed into Aelin’s world as our beloved characters race across the world in their last ditch efforts to save Aelin from Maeve, save Terrasen from Erawan, and create a better world once and for all. 

Kingdom of Ash was everything I hoped for and more: an emotional rollercoaster of darkness, romance, battle, grief, joy, heartbreak. I laughed, I cried, I literally clapped. And now I’m sad it’s over. 

tw: torture, death, grief, murder, battle, gore, sexual content 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Grief, Murder, and War

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

signebrum's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

This is the kind of conclusion you want to and 8-books series.
Almost a thousand pages, and at no point does it seem slow-paced.

This book has a lot of war. It can’t really surprise anyone, but as someone who isn’t the biggest fan of battle-scenes, this book is quite heavy on them. That said, the action is written nice, and you can follow what happening quite well. 

The series as a whole deserves the hype it gets! ToG and CoM are a little slow, but from Heir of Fire it takes of, and I’d argue Heir of Fire is only as good as it is because of the ground work and world building laid out in the first 2 books.
I was quite surprised feeling nostalgic for the early books reading Kingdom of Ash. Sooo much has happened to the poor characters!

Over all, a great series, with a final book worthy of all its predecessors!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pregnancy

alexz_miller's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal death

mthomas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

painausten314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jen1804's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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

April 2022:
I’ve never experienced so much emotion throughout a book. Usually I cry at one, or at most two, parts, but this book absolutely wrecked me on so many occasions.
The world building involved in this series is so incredible and how the narrative pieces together and everything falls into place in this last book is just beautiful. 
I feel like I need another novella from SJM telling me all about what all our beloved characters are up to now post war. I NEED MORE TOG CONTENT IN MY LIFE.
Satisfactory ending? Yesss.

Oct 2023 re-read:
Still love this book and these characters with my whole heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content

queengaynor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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: Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

helpme71's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

SO MANY EMOTIONS! Such a good series and I am sad to see it go. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Cursing

shelbyrodger's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault