Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

562 reviews

m_parker9612's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

weirdemosrus's review against another edition

1.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery

spikehype's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit

occasionalyarnie's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark 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: No

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Definitely an enjoyable read, but not utterly groundbreaking. I feel like the quality of the writing itself isn't up to par with how well she was writing Throne of Glass at the time, but it's not bad. It's definitely interesting to see the kernels she laid out for future books

(which also makes the romance a little cringe if you know where it's going)

, and makes a reread fun. I get why it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I stand by it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Torture

Minor: Slavery

patbat's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A Court of Thorns and Roses is weighed down by the plodding (roughly) first half of the book, which meanders about with no real purpose. If you read a summary of the first half and skip to the second half, you'll have approximately the same reading experience as someone who read through the entire book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

xavlak33's review against another edition

2.75

lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Not very well written.

“I love you” I said, and stabbed him.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

cararowen's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Colonizer trash meets beauty and the beast, plot requires main character to have no sense, does not have any actual character development, dubious consent for so so many scenes. Very my first romance novel vibes.

Feyra is not like the other girls, she's special, she's not hot but ever fairy man desires her, she's unable to listen to the most basic instructions, beauty and the beast is about compromise, this is about ignoring your boyfriend is rich because his daddy owned people and having your main character intoxicated and/or enchanted and/or manipulated into every sexual situation then claiming it's love. It's about having zero feelings of guilt when you get other people in trouble or dead and being consistently rewarded.

I have never disliked a text more than this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, War

kalyn_c's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Gore, Torture

Minor: Slavery, War, Injury/Injury detail

marlo_o's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

Graphic: Torture, Violence

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Vomit, Sexual harassment

samirareads24's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

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I understand the hype. It is slow to start but Feyre, the main character, is fascinating independent woman who is thrust into a world she was taught to hate. Its fascinating to see her open her mind to a different perspective and fall in love. She doesn't back down and fights for whats hers. Immediately started reading the second book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery