Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

176 reviews

chapters_and_pages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

Oh my goodness, what a phenomenal ending to such an incredible series! I put off reading this book for years because it was so long (980 pages…) but I’m so glad I’ve finally read it!

I won’t be going into the plot of this book, being that it’s the last in a long series but I absolutely loved the storyline and the ending. My favourite thing about this series is without a doubt the characters! The fact that Maas can create all of these incredible characters and make them all so unique and well written is astonishing, to be honest. Sometimes it can feel like an author introduces too many characters and they all start to feel very basic and similar but that’s never the case with Sarah J. Maas. 

Aelin continues to be one of, if not my favourite book characters of all time. Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone couldn’t adore her!

Overall this series was outstanding and I’m glad I’ve finally completed the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Pregnancy, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Torture, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and War

3am_bookmarks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gore, and Physical abuse

Moderate: War and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty

infusionofviolets's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Suicide, Blood, and Pregnancy

mangofraiche's review

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Violence, War, Blood, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Slavery, and Torture

anndreya's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Body horror, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Gore, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

liesthemoontells's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Body horror, Colonisation, Death, Torture, Grief, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and War

smilagros's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I can’t believe this series is over. This series is a roller coaster. I do think this could have been smaller. Like not almost 900 pages. I did not give it a full 5 because

I really did not like Yrene. she just bothered me and for her to be the one that kills Erawon. 🙄 I’m so annoyed. I truly thought that the book was going to end during the war and it doesn’t which surprised me. I thought this was one of the best ways I’ve seen a series wrap up. Like everything was put into place. Now, the key. I had NO IDEA what was going on. I was so confused. I fucking missed when she passed by Veralis but I’m glad that my friend told me about it. I feel like that moment was so hyped and everything counted on the lock but the execution of that entire scene was poor.

I love these characters so much. Through this entire series you go THROUGH IT with Aelin and to see how she ended up… it was beautiful. It really was✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, Blood, War, Pregnancy, Grief, Slavery, Torture, and Death of parent

carlyjoann's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Physical abuse, Confinement, Blood, Vomit, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Pregnancy

hollymileham's review

adventurous emotional 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

what a stunning book, the journey this took me on was filled with such love and care im so sad that the series is over i feel so connected to this story & these characters who have such depth and clarity, even the saddest most gut wrenching things in this book i loved. for such a long book i wasnt bored once. cant believe its over 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Torture, War, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

axthan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Physical abuse

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, Torture, and War

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence