Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1337 reviews

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

maddiela's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death

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

the_crooked_neighbor's review against another edition

1.5

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Here's the thing- I hated this book. But I can't really point a finger at why exactly so I didn't give it a lower rating. The first half was extremely boring and the second half was extremely problematic. I think some of my dislike comes from osmosis ing through pop knowledge the next steps in Feyres romance. But regardless, had this not been a book I was reading for a friend, I would have DNFed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization

juliettefuji's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Alcohol

kbrummund7's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

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

ibbyyyyy's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Rape

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

margaret_oc's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I enjoyed this, it was fun to finally read what everyone else has been reading. A few reasons for my low ish rating are: I found Feyre a bit annoying,

I didn’t quite understand how she and Tamlin fell in love  I guess and it didn’t feel super well conveyed to me. Like for example when they first said ily to each other I felt a bit shocked.

My main complaint of this book is that it didn’t feel fast paced enough for 416 pages. I know I’m new to fantasy, but I hoped it would have been more of a page turner based on how much people love the series (although I have heard many say the first book isn’t great, but that the rest of the series is, so I’ll definitely read the second one). It was overall a really well written and interesting story, just not in a page-turner type of way. I think if I connected with/ liked the characters more I would have read it a lot more quickly. ALSO while I think I’ll like the next book, I am completely overwhelmed by this series. The second book being 626 pages and then only increasing feels insane to me😭

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Content Warnings

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