Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

658 reviews

notkt's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

ashley_kait's review against another edition

3.5

dark 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: No

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Violence, War

katykatkathryn's review against another edition

4.25

emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit

megmahoney1's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

---

I devoured this to be fair, easy reading and a page turner. I don’t think it’s the best writing I’ve ever read and definitely some cringeworthy moments - the excessive ‘growling’ from Tamlin, and Feyre can be quite annoying throughout the first half/two thirds of the book. It was a lot of fun to read, and I did really enjoy myself and intend to read more of the series. Definitely helped me out of a reading slump so I’m grateful to this book for that. 

---

Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping

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

---

'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...

---

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

---

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. 

---

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.

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

---

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. 

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Death of parent

catrose97's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

This was an amazing book! The world building and descriptions were amazingly written as I felt like I was IN this book, in this world. It has some very dark and graphic moments as a warning. I really enjoyed the cast of characters and the villain. The main character is interesting although sometimes I grew really frustrated with her, especially at the very end of the book. Other than that, I loved this book! I’m very very excited to read/listen to the second book. At the end of the first book they wrap a lot of the story, but there’s obviously so much more to come and be discovered. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Alcohol

readanotherbooknerds's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous 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: Complicated

---

I feel like this is one of the silliest books, if not the silliest book, I have ever finished, but I also couldn’t put it down? I definitely wouldn’t call it good, but it reads like something smutty off fanfiction dot net circa 2002, so it’s a certain kind of cozy (for something with a fair amount of gore in it). I’m about Maas’s age so it makes sense. 

It’s a little noncon so if you’re sensitive to that maybe avoid it.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Murder, War

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

stasiak's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Vomit, Murder, Abandonment

Minor: Cursing, Gore, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol