Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

192 reviews

jaremyreads's review against another edition

0.5

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcohol

readbykatherine's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Excrement

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War

Minor: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent

sarahmerfi's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 48%

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

floatingfish144's review against another edition

3.75

dark sad 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit

mollz12's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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I have been hesitant to read this book because of the back and forth reviews.  

Trigger warnings are needed for this: sexual assault, drugging, non consent sex, male toxic traits

I loved the fairy world and the fantasy part of this. I was “whatever” about the love story. I read this fast, so it held my attention. 
The thing I absolutely was disappointed in was the intention of sexual assault and non consented sexual acts. I couldn’t believe she added this. 

There is a point near the end after FREYE getting drugged over and over and the fairy says he never touched her below because he wanted to be on Tamlin’s good side…… what?!?? 
What?!???? 
How about … not to do things to her SHE DID NOT AGREE ON. so so ridiculous. 

I only would read the 2nd one if rape is left out of it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Classism

The sounds of fae torture and vomiting are pretty intense in the graphic audio version.

dahliaden's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Torture, Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence

hypocrisis's review against another edition

1.0

fast-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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i found this book at the open book shelf and, curious about the hype and looking for something unchallenging to contrast academic reading, i decided to pick it up. 
well, the writing was worse than expected, the plot as predictable as i remembered the young adult fiction from my early teens. The worst part about this was that none of the characters seemed to have any personality or interests (besides an unspecific unbased interest in *art*), just hollow plot devices. The racy scenes were my only motivation to get through the endless inconsistencies and the ramblings of a painfully one dimensional and frankly frustratingly stupid narrator but even those scenes proved to be unrewarding lol.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment

rubybastille's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I just don’t get the appeal of these books yet. Aside from it being a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, which is fine in and of itself, the story cherry-picks from lots of existing books (Hunger Games is an obvious one) and Feyre is actually kind of annoying. Characters repeatedly warn her to not do the thing, she does the thing anyway, and suffers through the consequences until one of those characters (always male) rescues her. She’s portrayed as a tough sexy Cool Girl badass but actually largely lacks agency and/or uses her agency to do stupid stuff that men have to save her from. And speaking of sexy, there are a few scenes where Feyre is put through sexually degrading situations and those always had an undertone of voyeurism that didn’t sit well with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death of parent, War

skbat's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief