Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

658 reviews

minimicropup's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense 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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Finally read it! Not my usual genre, but thank you FoMO, I ended up enjoying this more than I expected.  It was a good fae-based fantasy with swoon-worthy romance and just enough action to keep things interesting.

 

Energy: Enduring. Defiant. Determined.

 

🐕 Howls: Even though I’m not a big romance reader it was surprisingly not as cringey as I expected with just enough edge to keep it from being too sappy.

 

🐩 Tail Wags: The audiobook. How we’re eased into the fae world without dumping too much lore all at once. The action scenes and high stakes moments held my attention. I didn’t feel overwhelmed by the characters and worldbuilding. The puzzle/competition elements were engaging. How our MCs independence balances out the lovey-dovey moments.

 

Scene: 📖 Prythian Mortal Lands and Fae Courts

Perspective: Our main character is the sole supporter of her family after her father was injured and lost his investments. Her sisters are spoiled and unappreciative. One day, when she kills a fae masquerading as a wolf, she is brought to their world as retribution.  

Timeline: Linear.

🔥 Fuel: What will the High Fae be like? How will Feyre’s future play out living among them? Are the stereotypes true? Will she catch feelings? How will she navigate romance and vengeance within the fae world?  

📖 Cred: Fantastical

 

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Faded paint. Hearth. Hyacinth. Exquisite gardens. Smooth stone. Burning metal. Tattooed arm. Talons. Membranous wings.

• Tagging along, peering over shoulders, overhearing character thoughts (first person)
• Breezy, direct writing style
• Resilient, likeable characters
• Life and death riddles and torture trials
• Fight for freedom
• Enemies to lovers forbidden love
• Love triangles, polyandry elements
• Falling for her abductor
• ‘Stupid human’ prejudices
• Caresses, desires, lust and teasing steamy moments
• Blinded by revenge villain
• Possessive and protective alpha hero
• Shapeshifting animal-form high fae
• Diminished powers

 

Content Heads-Up: Animal death (hunting; wildlife). Blood, injury, pain. Confinement. Death. Loss of parent (as child). Murder. Physical attack (permanent injury). Poverty, starvation. Sexual content (on page; consenting; descriptive but not overly graphic). Torture.

 

Rep: Hetero. Porcelain, golden tan, tanned, freckled, pale, blue, moon white skin tones. Illiteracy.

 

📚 Format: Library Audio

 

💖 Musings powered by puppy snuggles 🐶

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

emmawcu21's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual assault

haleyntk's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment

adele22's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional mysterious 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: No

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I read this book faster than anything I've read in probably the last 10 years and bought the sequel before I had finished it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Violence

kaitb15's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Rape

witchybooknerd16's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark reflective 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

marina_remi's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal death

samtantha_reads's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark hopeful reflective slow-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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This is the entryway into this highly acclaimed series, but it’s probably the hardest/slowest of the books to read. I had too high of expectations and also didn’t realize it was technically YA. After adjusting my expectations, I really enjoyed the last half of the book and look forward to completing the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Sexual harassment

__romancereader__'s review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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I this book so long ago and stopped it cause I heard there was a love triangle and the thought of that made me so anxious but I decided to retry again and I’m still nervous but I like it it is mad interesting I don’t have a lot to say cause I finished like 60% of the book in September of 2023 which gives me only 40% to recap on🤣 but it’s not bad very adventurous very interesting I can’t wait to see Rhysand and Feyre get together and stay together I’m just nervous on how that’s gonna happen with Tamlin in the picture still😭 overall it has spice scenes but I wouldn’t say it’s overly spicy it has a love triangle from what I’ve heard and am seeing at the moment😭😖I don’t know if you could call it cheating there is a happy ending with no cliffhanger but definitely more to the story and overall i rated it 4 stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

behapgood's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail