Reviews tagging 'War'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

471 reviews

ananya_b's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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: Yes

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This was a really wonderful read! The pacing is fast and the plot is gripping. I could hardly put it down until I'd finished. Maas has a wonderful writing style too, apart from one too many uses of "my throat closed up" and "my mouth went dry" and a couple of grammatical errors- I found it slightly more ornate than that of most other modern writers, and there's definitely a lot less swearing. 

The characters are well-rounded, especially Feyre. However, there are a couple of plot inaccuracies

- for instance, the question of why Feyre couldn't see the Attor at first, despite the fact that it wasn't a member of the Spring Court.

Nonetheless, this was one of the best books I've read. I can't wait to read the rest of the series - I hope they're as good as this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War

cavallonee's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Death of parent, War

tilde_c_s's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Grief

Minor: Slavery, War

cheesine's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War

Moderate: Torture, Blood, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

rtjasa's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War

dpmarvelous's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Though slow at times, i found this book really enjoyable and i look forward to continuing the series. :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War

echolliot's review against another edition

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Just too painful to keep going - cliche, trite, and honestly just really badly written. I couldn't plough through with this garbage Beauty and the Beast reimagining. And the horrible, abusive "romance" stuff made me want to throw my phone away. Don't bother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, Torture, Death of parent, Alcohol, War

radtj's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Bad summaries: 

500+ y/o guy falls for a 19 year old with an educational disability who doesnt know what to do with her life and then introduces her to royalty hell and forces her to save him from his eternal doom at the hands of a sadistic evil woman who kills for fun 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

cometkitty's review against another edition

1.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Feyre is so unlikable that I could not bring myself to care when she was basically getting tortured....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, War

livy_lili's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-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: Yes

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A really great read! Very easy to immerse into the story and the settings with the characters. A lovely book to read after having not read for a very long time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Moderate: Sexual content, Xenophobia

Minor: Death, Abandonment