Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

19 reviews

nerdkitten's review against another edition

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

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Animal death, Suicide, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, War, Cursing, Death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Self harm, Vomit, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Animal cruelty, Deportation, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Body horror, and Genocide

sdemo08's review against another edition

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

5.0

Whew. I got a little worried toward the end and wasn't sure if I could finish. There were so many plot points to keep up with and I felt like every couple of pages was some sort of mind-boggling plot twist, martyrdom, or marathon between characters racing to the finish before their clock stopped. Ultimately I liked it but I'm glad it's over.

[Fire on "black currant" crocheted blanket]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Sexual assault, War, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Vomit, Gaslighting, Genocide, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

mollydollydoodah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

I’m pretty satisfied with that ending.

To be honest, less people died than I thought they would! I thought either Lysandra or Aedion were goners for sure, along with either Borte, Nesryn, or Dorian himself. I feel like it was a little too much of a happy ending despite all the loss, because there weren’t really a lot of deaths I could connect to. The rest of the Thirteen dying was sad, and I cried for Asterin, but I didn’t really know any of the others other than Vesta and Sorrel. I feel like a little more loss would have been effective (in making me sob), but I am of course happy that it did not end that way. I would get annoyed with how often the pov’s switched, because I’d get so invested in what was taking place in one storyline that I’d get frustrated at having to leave it behind. But that frustration would soon be forgotten as I was sucked into the new perspective, so I wasn’t too upset. I thought that the storyline progressed well, even if it stressed me out to no end that nobody was aiding Aedion and the Bane and how badly I wanted to slaughter the old Terrasen Lords. Aelin’s time being tortured and her recovery were some of my most-anticipated things to read about in this book, and they were written very well. It was very sad and heartbreaking, especially the parts with Fenrys, but it was powerful. I’m so glad that they had each other both through it and afterwards, and I thought that their unspoken language was so powerful as well. I really enjoyed all the action and adventure in this book, but I was definitely frustrated with certain points. I thought it was BS how Aedion was treating Lysandra, and how she just ended up forgiving him. And I agree that it was important to have those effective final battle scenes with Maeve and Erawan, but I thought it was BS that the gods just didn’t follow through with their bargain and even more BS that Aelin tried to save Elena, who’d had a thousand years already, like wtf? I’m very disappointed that she and Dorian lost most of her powers but oh well. I loved Dorian in this book, especially how he slayed and played Maeve at Morath, even if I thought he was being an idiot in how he was frolicking about in his different forms and in letting Maeve free when he left. My favorite parts of these books have been badass Aelin kicking ass and taking names and looking amazing while doing it, wielding schemes and plans and powers like no other. It was disappointing that we didn’t get a lot of those this book, but it made sense with the whole tortured deal. I still have a few questions about things, such as whatever happened to Dorian’s mom and Hollin? Also, who is that other member of the cadre that was ever so briefly mentioned, and how will he come up again in the future SJM universe?? Oh yeah, and Aelin totally saw Rhys and Feyre when she was falling through worlds, so that was pretty cool. All in all, I think it was almost too happy of an ending, but I’m glad there was no pregnancy trope with Aelin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, War, Slavery, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Grief, Gore, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

pandora_rose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.0

Like some of the previous books in this series, this was slow to start. Once I was fully immersed in the story though I flew through it.

All in all, this was a wonderful round-up of a series that had been recommended to me by so many, that has had twists and turns along the way. Good and bad. Surprising and ones I had worked out.

I loved the ending, and it makes me wonder if they really did live out their days as they planned. I cried buckets through the last quarter, which I had been warned about. Emotional isn't the word. Though if you don't get emotionally invested in characters then you might just be okay.

The book rounded up all the plots and didn't leave any gaps. It was a bittersweet ending, but a fantastic one regardless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Physical abuse, Torture, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Medical content, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury

annikareads_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Torture, Death of parent, War, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent

embla_v's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional

5.0

Den sista delen i glastronen-serien. Jag älskar verkligen hela serien och tycker att detta var ett fantastiskt avslut på serien. Jag grät mig igenom de sista 300 sidorna och älskade varenda sekund. Detta kommer nog vara en av de bästa serierna jag läst för alltid, inte för att den är skriven bra utan för att jag kommit att älska karaktärerna och att jag önskar dem en bättre värld. 

Jag rekommenderar starkt till alla som gillar fantasy att läsa den här boken/serien. Första boken i serien är glastronen och handlar om Celaena, Adarlans lönnmördare, som blivit utvald att tävla i en turnering i slottet. 

Spoiler för andra böcker i serien 

Aelin är tillfångatagen av Maeve och de andra är splittrade ute på olika uppdrag. Kommer de att lyckas? Kan alla enas för att rädd världen? Kommer löftet och önskan om en bättre värld att segra eller döms dem till evigt mörker av Erawans?

Som sagt rekommenderar jag alla fantasy älskare att läsa denna serie. De är otroligt bra böcker, speciellt de senare i serien. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, War, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Self harm

juliette_95's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Confinement, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Vomit

sarahsbooklife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Excrement and Vomit