Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

562 reviews

helfire124's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

hmatt's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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First of all, I'm stunned that this isn't considered YA. To market it as anything else is false advertising, in my opinion. Reader beware.

Second of all, the MC is really freaking dumb.

This isn't a genre I read a lot in, but this year I also read Serpent & Dove... which is marketed as YA and has waaaaay better worldbuilding and character-building. I would definitively say that this isn't worth the hype, but I'm glad if it's getting people reading I suppose?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Slavery, Classism

sidequestguy's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War

moonrosemother's review against another edition

0.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Many plot holes, character development was next to none except for the main female character, the author has over described and under described parts, all characters seem to be white so there's no diversity at all. 

The author hasnt learned about any of the hobbies of the main character; the mc is a painter and hunter; yet the mc will often say to herself: "i dont know the name of the colour, so i will keep it for later", while it is true that not everyone knows the names of colours, SJM could still have described them better.

SPOILERS:

The MC's family starts off as having lost lots of wealth and were living in a shack having forced the MC to hunt for food, and the family (except MC) was in denial of it, even after 8 years and expected the MC to care for them. However, while MC was under the "care" of her kidnapper, the kidnapper gave the mc's family more wealth that they had before, thus the family learned nothing.

 

Adittionally

One of the characters towards the end while shown that he could torture the minds of fae and humans, sexually assulted the MC, however this was thrown in at the END of the book, thus seeming to have not been thought out at all.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

All in all, could have been written or even edited better.

kalex466's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-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: Complicated

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It took about 25 chapters before the book became more interesting to read. Which, I know there was world building and background history to establish but it felt like it went on for a long while. The back half was excellent! I enjoyed the plot and the twists. It had me on my toes, wondering what was going to happen next. Also, the spice scenes were a miss for me. They were not well written. The book also gave beauty and the beast vibes as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Violence

suchallie's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: No

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Mostly no complaints except that the reveal of the

curse on Tamlin

was way too easy, it felt like a tying up of loose ends and wasn’t cleverly intertwined into the story, much too convenient. I also solved the riddle immediately?? 

I’m also not sure I love the way information is introduced in the writing style, sometimes I was like did I miss something? but it’s forgivable. 

The story feels innovative and fresh though which is exciting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

veronyqueso's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark fast-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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I loved this book! It unlocked a whole new world for my imagination to go to. I've never read about faeries, but I remember trying to find faeries as a child, and this appealed to that nostalgia. I loved the intriguing characters and their actions/conversations were entertaining. I heard the series gets better, so I'm excited to read the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War

deedeegib's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Self harm

dixy's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I had fun with this book, I really enjoyed reading it! But honestly i feel like the writing is mostly a bit mediocre and the characters kind of surface level. Most of the book feels like the author wasnt really sure what she wanted to do with it, but the latter fourth-to-half feels like she really nailed it down there, and it became very compelling. It could just be my story preferences, but i really do think the latter parts of the book are the best written. Again, i really enjoyed reading this, & I do recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture

Minor: Slavery

Graphic description of dissociation, Graphic description of sickness