Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1340 reviews

hayhaywils's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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: Yes

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Bare with it because it is a slow burn but the pay off is really good. A really strong mix of characters but found the pace a little inconsistent. Felt the last part (most interesting was compressed into the last third of the book)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming

marisabenn's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous tense 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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RE-READ 
I forgot how utterly boring this is until Under the Mountain. If it weren't for that, this would be getting a MUCH lower rating. I actually skimmed or fully skipped some chapters this time around because nothing of use was happening.

I want to get this series finished before the end of the year, and I really hope this is the worst book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Grief

Minor: Sexual assault

kellycallenm's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark 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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**Spolier** Interesting retelling of Beauty and the Beast and then some. **/Spoiler** Certain passages were especially gruesome, see content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Murder

annikabc's review against another edition

2.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Lil' miss Stockholm syndrome needs to get a grip. All of these people are awful.

Tamlin is so bland and also lies so much. I looked up who she ends up with and I'm so glad its not him... although Rhys is also awful.

 
Anyway I had fun despite it all so 2.25 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Sexual harassment

shinyfox's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting, War

Minor: Death of parent

chaoticbiranger's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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*Just a review of the first book, not the whole series* A very easy read, and honestly feels like The Twilight Saga of my 30s in the sense that it's a captivating series but is definitely more junkfood. It's not really deep or thought provoking, I was never deeply invested in Feyre herself. I was far more invested in everything else around her. As a first person POV, Feyre is honestly insufferable for the first 100 pages, and she's fairly annoying as the sole POV for the remainder of the book but it does gradually improve. There's entirely too much use of the words "muscle", "sensuous", "purr", "growl", and "roar" however it sort of plays into the junk food. It also has some classic familiar tropes. Parentified daughter that's not like other girls, but actually has a higher grand purpose as a Chosen One, and important men in another land are enamored by her spunk; don't forget the archery and hunting skills. 

If you're looking for spice, this is black pepper. I really thought by the way everyone raved on Tiktok calling it "faerie p**n" that it would be a bit more hot under the collar, more explicit, but there's honestly less than three scenes that get exciting. 

What this book did well was actually having reasonable pacing with the love story, it wasn't instant even though it was VERY predictable. 

What this book could do better, more creative world building. Prythian is supposed to be an entirely different land, a different world than our own. But they have typhus and say things like "go to Hell". So apparently this place has a Hell? Capitalized? It took me out of it since they made it a point to briefly explain the religious faerie origin story. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent

hanxahjudd's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark 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: Complicated

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Fun, adventurous, horny, dark but surprisingly lovely and interwoven with folklore and romance. Got me out of a reading slump for sure 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Slavery

isabelle_mary's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

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I had been pushing off starting this series as I am always worried when reading “trendy” books, but I can now say that this book definitely deserves all hype. This author gives you just enough without giving you too much and creates a story where you never know what’s next. I was on the edge of my seat when reading this book and am excited to read the next one! At the end when all of the pieces fall into place and everything you read starts clicking it makes the book more enjoyable.

I am also all for a book when the main theme is love and you don’t realize it till the end.

Overall, so glad I finally decided to pick up the book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

whimsyforestfairy's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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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This book will always hold a special place in my heart as the beginning of my love for reading. It roped me in and I remember absolutely loving it at the time. It isn’t my favourite of the ACOTAR series but it is a sentimental one for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder

gvyv's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, War

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent