Reviews tagging 'Gore'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

799 reviews

chantellenore'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: No

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I loved the world-building in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit

ashleyelizabeth's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Sexual content

thereisabbey's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Read this a few years ago, still love reading the series - comfort read.
ACOTAR is a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" with a twist. A great start into the romantasy genre. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore

Moderate: Sexual content

Series gets spicy with each book

jamiejanae's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

merrow's review against another edition

3.75

emotional mysterious fast-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 strongest point of this book is the imagery of the Spring Court, which informs the tone of the main part of the story. This makes it an enjoyable read even as the characters find their feet and

gradually stop being awful to each other

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Unfortunately the Under the Mountain portion of the book ends up being a bit oppressively grim in contrast.

The plot draws a lot on classic stories, but not necessarily the most overdone ones, letting it still feel fresh and somewhat unpredictable. It’s definitely a good read, but doesn’t necessarily draw me in for more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

jojo50's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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: Complicated

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Standard fairy human relations type book. A little bit of a beauty and the beast feel. A bit too much a description of sexual relations. If you are into that sort of thing, it's not nasty in any way. The plot was engaging enough to keep me going through sixteen hours of audio

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

finny328's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent

smiller_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery, War

louthepoo22's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous 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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War

hotsauce's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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'All the warmth, all the sparkling joy, drained from me like blood down a drain.'

This sentence sums up so much of this book for me: needlessly wordy, dark, and not well crafted enough to warrant all the hype.

The plot was good, but it would have been so much better in the hands of a more competent writer who knew how to actually employ the flowery prose with which Maas clearly wanted to fill this overly long novel.

Also the spicy level and romance (The Main Things that are supposed to make this series notable) are underwhelming, to say the least. It certainly does not help matters that you *know* Tamlin was never intended to be End Game.

I will still read the next novel because that is where I have been told that this series actually starts to get good?? We will see...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail