Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

487 reviews

texas_tricia's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence

rstubleski's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kateb15's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Confinement, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Rape

behapgood's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-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, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

m_moon's review against another edition

2.5

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: Yes

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Beginning was intriguing. Middle was a fight to keep reading. Meh but I want to read the next book to see what happens. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual harassment

sajakr's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Loveable characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

dragonaion's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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The only thing keeping me from giving this a 5 star review is the fact the first 60% is a mirror, almost scene for scene, of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Unique enough to still be enjoyable, but predictable and I'm glad I knew Sarah's work with "Throne of Glass". I kept thinking, "hang in there, she knows what she's doing" and it took until halfway through the book for it to really show. I hope the next book continues the trend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit

Minor: Rape, Slavery

ladydragona's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A fun read that kept me engaged from the very beginning. The sex scenes were underwhelming but that can be forgiven with the interesting characters and a plot that kept me reading until the very end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Colonisation

mama2rescue's review against another edition

3.5

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I have heard good things about this book so I decided to give it a try. All in all it is “good” but definitely not for the faint of hard. There are moments where I had to skip through and nearly stop listening to the audio book.The scenes of killing a loved one, torture, drugging someone were too much. Allegedly the 2nd book in the series is worth the read and has much less of this in it. However, it was a tough read, good but tough. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Sexual harassment

giuliawanders's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous inspiring mysterious tense fast-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: Yes

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Started it thinking “what a cliché” and then I got so into it and now I need to know what happens next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Alcohol

Minor: Slavery, War