Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1340 reviews

carolinepattpatt's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual content

rachelpacz'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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment

amaranthines's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Murder

Minor: Animal death

skeletor23's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Book really drags in the beginning to give too much world exposition before we even have the chance to care, surrounds main character by a family of near irredeemable characters that makes reader question why it spends so much time on them in the beginning, and repeats formulaic sequence of main character outright being stupid and putting self into harms way by doing the opposite of advice given, having to be rescued time and time again in drawn out false climaxes. That being said, the book redeems itself in the 3rd quarter, building on characters, creative action sequences, romance, and straight up gore and tragedy into resolution to make us feel something for an initially dull and annoyingly dumb main character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism

book spends so much time focusing and building on a main love interest (Tamlin) that it basically character assassinates them at the end by having him do literally nothing and say nothing to help save the main character-who is literally going through a prolonged gauntlet of death and torture to free him out of love- from being brutally beaten and mentally broken and eventually horrifically and slowly killed in front of him. Feels like a massive waste of his character and readers time, and is frustrating to the reader.

morg312's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous mysterious sad 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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This book is the epitome of a slow burn. The characters, the plot, the conflict, all of it. The first half is an absolute mess and I have never wanted to DNF a book so much. However I have had so many friends rave about this series that I had to power through and honestly I’m glad I did. I’m looking forward to the next book but I truly can not rate this book higher due to the first half and also ** spoiler** the first task that Feyre has to endure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Animal death

_b0ok_l0v3r's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious 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: No

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Kidnapping, War

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol

charly_ho's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder

amandamarieger's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was good! But the lack of diversity was STARK compared to what I’ve been reading the last few years. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

lavendar'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: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment

kailiyahknight's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Excrement, Grief, Alcohol, War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Sexual harassment