Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1338 reviews

ruska_777's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

karlin0336's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a reread for me (it's been so long that I decided to stop reading A Court of Wings and Ruin and go back through these so everything's more fresh in my mind).  My original rating was 4.25 stars, but I definitely enjoyed it more the second time around.  Not at all a fan of the amount of spice in this series, but this one is quite a bit more tame than the others.  (Definitely skippable if you want to go that route.)

If you're a fan of books about the fae, you will love this.  Worldbuilding and characters are great.  The story from start to finish is captivating.  The ending is mind-blowing.  Plus, it's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but with fae!  What could be better?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Kidnapping

Minor: Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War

oxian_d's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional hopeful mysterious slow-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: Yes

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Finally, I have finished this book, been delaying it for quite some time now. I don't know, maybe it's too romancy for me that I got bored along the way or perhaps it's too predictable. I almost, not want to finish this book. It's just so similar to the Beauty and the Beast story, well only on the first part. Although, it was interesting, emotional, even the words were written well. And love the creatures, colorful to imagine, the scenery too with the painting and the magic lake, and I even felt for their love story for a bit but it's too predictable. Falling in love with her captor, is crazy. The beast tamed the beauty? I thought she was a hunter, where did that go? Falling for the first rich guy she saw is just lame. I'm sorry to say women are not weak and dependent. It's just so disappointing and with the theme: good vs evil, rich and poor, the usual stuff. To make it worse it felt too dragging. But at least I enjoyed the itsy bitsy twist in the end with the involvement of the fae kingdoms to make it different. 

I just don't like how the beast named Tamlin tamed the hunter Feyre even if it was a prophecy in the story so it seemed. She wasn't a hunter anymore but a girl, an ordinary girl who loves beauty and fell for a guy or the next who helped her. So typical. It's too predictable. Even the evil queen was too lenient to her. The fantasy ended but they made this into a series can you imagine. I think her face was a history, a reminder of someone and this will be revealed next like who wouldn't guess. Together with the love triangle scenario, she will marry one of them for sure and the looming war with humans is at the brink. A story reminiscent of what was and what will be. That is why this is predictable and boring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

nicnocs511's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, War

Minor: Vomit

sarasimper's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, War

milkteanao's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous funny hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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"My bowels turned watery" but fuck I'm interested in this series. Wattpad but 10 steps higher like woah

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

and_so_it_goes's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It was a standard modern action fairy tale. Feyre didn’t spend enough time

hating fae, and barely reflects on the fact she has become what she knows often subjugated her people and more on losing her mortality. She apologizes for klling the faerie, but never challenges the relationship between humans and fae beyond a few mentions to emphasize the faeries brutality. It’s very peculiar, especially since the High Fae look more human than Lesser Fae

Tamlin had the personality of a cardboard box, which I suppose does fit Feyre. The pacing was very odd, with the beginning rather slow and then all the plot happening at the very end. If this series wasn’t so popular, I wouldn’t have given this a second thought. 

My favorite characters were Lucien and Nesta, because both of them had some aspects that weren’t obvious from the surface. Everyone else were rather forgettable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Slavery, Death of parent

mary_berry_'s review against another edition

1.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Literally hated this book so much, started it four years ago and I just now finished it because I was so bored I didn’t want to pick it up again. I have the second book, will I read it? Maybe? Honestly idk if I wanna put myself through that again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Blood, Classism

Moderate: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

jorose's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

yeidi's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Consider me hooked!

If this ever gets adapted, I hope it's an animated series like Netflix Castlevania.

• Interesting world building. 
• A visceral type of writing.
• Nitpick: a bit too rushed in some parts (ex. spoiler:
  family reuniting, arguably understandably
  ) and a bit too slow in others. But not enough to really bother me. 
• I've seen people say the 2nd is better and I'm looking forward to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual harassment

Minor: Slavery, Death of parent