Reviews tagging 'War'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

471 reviews

razzyreads's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Xenophobia, Murder, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, War

xoiiva's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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lowkey i thought i would dislike this cause of the booktok hate but here we are
LOVED IT
world building was just mwah

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Blood, Murder

Minor: Slavery, War

meganmoisant's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Classism

Minor: Excrement, Death of parent

kmaffett's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, War

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent

jvv_246's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, War

Minor: Torture, Alcohol

theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book has been on my TBR for years and I was excited to finally read it. Bookstagram told me it would be good, but I feel lied to. It read like a mashup of Beauty and the Beast and Howl’s Moving Castle—two stories I love—but I didn’t love this. I didn’t like any of the characters and the story was just… blah. It was slow, I didn’t really care about what happened to any of the characters, and I predicted the plot twist close to the end. 

All that being said, friends and family have assured me the series gets better as you go along, so I’ll give the second book a try. The jump from 400 pages to 600 makes me nervous it will be a giant waste of time, but hopefully I will like Mist and Fury better. 

ACOTAR gets 2.5/5 for me, but I did finish and I am willing to give the second book a chance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcohol, War

Minor: Slavery, Vomit, Death of parent

chinomi's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Death of parent

ariel_is_a_dreamer's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first 70% of the book was... quite bad and slow. Then the last 30%, although rushed and requiring a bit of an infodump from one of the characters, was pretty good, written in an earnest fairytale-like manner, with an almost jarring tone shift. That, and the fact that I'm not the target audience for the book, made me give it a generous 3 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment

Minor: Slavery, War

kamelleruano's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

el_viral's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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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I liked this book more than I thought I would - I hate the term romantasy, which seems to be a thing now - I'm happy to have some romance in my fantasy, but not fantasy in my romance, and this trod a fine line, but kept me hooked. The world-building is very good, and the characters each have a solidly different voice. It does, however, have a few points that drag, and then a lot seems to be packed in at the end. I got this copy free, but would consider buying more in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Murder

Moderate: Xenophobia, War