Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

74 reviews

ashleyp18'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: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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There is a lot of world-building, which is necessary for a story like this, but the world building makes it a bit long as some points. Outside of the world building… OH MY GOSH the plot is so good and the characters are all so interesting in their own ways. I couldn’t put this book down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Death of parent

marionlundqvist's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I had heard about the book on TT as being a fairy smut novel, but this turned out to be a great disappointment. Not only for the laxk of smut, but it was an almost copy of The beauty and the beast (but fairy edition). I’m not a huge fan of fairies so if you don’t come into it with an adoration already, save some time and pick up another book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

starfall_11's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Complicated

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For anyone who's never read it it's the beginning of a beautiful obsession

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Vomit, War, Injury/Injury detail

kiwichill's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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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I really enjoyed this book and couldn't put it down.  Not normally a fantasy reader but this kept me engrossed just to see what happens to Fayre and Tamblin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

jenniraptor's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark relaxing tense 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Murder, War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail

kds247's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Alright, I’ll give it to the ACOTAR girlies and admit that this was entertaining. I mainly liked the supporting characters over the protagonist, but sometimes their voices blended together. Hopefully throughout the series as each of them develop they’ll become more fleshed out as individuals. The beginning was ROUGH in terms of writing style and dialogue (so much so I genuinely thought she was making fun of the YA fantasy genre), but the further I got the more the dialogue and pacing evened out. Liked it better than Fourth Wing though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent

squeakypenguin's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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So I don’t know what to say. It wasn’t that bad but I don’t understand the hype. The story was good but most of it was cliche and a bit predictable. The writing was not that good either. There was a lot of repetition when it came to describing things, like I dont want to know that her bowels became watery for the 15th time!

The riddle that the FMC had to figure out was soooooo easy (and cheesy) that it was unbelievable that she wasn’t able to figure it out sooner. There was plot holes and a few things I questioned but I powered through.

Don’t really find the main character interesting shes boring and it’s droned into us in nearly every chapter that she likes to paint. I knew I didn’t like her when she had to be all “quirky” moaning that she had to wear a dress. I switched off through some of it because it was boring and was hard to make sense of a few things.

I feel like I MIGHT read the second book if I can get my hands on it as I have heard that it is better so I’m not giving up this series yet. 

Overall it was a good story with a few twists and magical elements and a whimsical setting that was immersive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit

kailiyahknight's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Excrement, Grief, Alcohol, War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

ananya_b's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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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This was a really wonderful read! The pacing is fast and the plot is gripping. I could hardly put it down until I'd finished. Maas has a wonderful writing style too, apart from one too many uses of "my throat closed up" and "my mouth went dry" and a couple of grammatical errors- I found it slightly more ornate than that of most other modern writers, and there's definitely a lot less swearing. 

The characters are well-rounded, especially Feyre. However, there are a couple of plot inaccuracies

- for instance, the question of why Feyre couldn't see the Attor at first, despite the fact that it wasn't a member of the Spring Court.

Nonetheless, this was one of the best books I've read. I can't wait to read the rest of the series - I hope they're as good as this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War

dpmarvelous's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Though slow at times, i found this book really enjoyable and i look forward to continuing the series. :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War