Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

487 reviews

biwee's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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"My bowels went watery" 🤨
Lazily written, unnecessary padding, frustrating character choices, stupid ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

chelsearedden's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content

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

trishgibbons's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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The first third of the book was extremely slow in my opinion, which is weird because the rest of it was pretty packed. I enjoy fast paced novels, and the ideas and world are very unique. I really enjoyed the plot in the last half. 

I also had problems with some of the connections between characters. Too much build up, not enough actually getting to know them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Classism

I just feel like Feyre and Tamlin barely gave anything the entire first chunk of the book. If it wasn’t for her constantly calling him a beast, and knowing that this was a retelling, I would’ve thought they completely hated each other. And then bam all of a sudden they were flirting and in love. But it wasn’t convincing like I’ve seen done in other stories.

kimveach's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I finally got around to reading this book.  I liked it, but it didn't capture me like Rebecca Yarros's "Fourth Wing" (Empyrean series) did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

andreaeverafter's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Abandonment

reneeleger's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous medium-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Feyre was annoying, Tamlin was boring, Rhysand was interesting until he was super gross, and everyone else was just kind of there. Amarantha was pretty cool though. The beginning is almost unbearably slow and confusing (not a great combination) but I will say that the last 20% is pretty fun to read if you don't think about it and take everything at face value lol.

Would have gotten at least 3 stars if it didn't have my least favorite trope: sexual assault that is treated like it's sexy because the perpetrator is attractive.

Apparently the second book in the series is good which is the only reason I did not def 100 pages in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Classism

akendall20's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment

tina43's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship