Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

524 reviews

katklev's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent

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

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

bergha1998's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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As low stakes romantasy fun, I actually really enjoyed it. Just knowing there were going to be cringy parts, a total pick-me FMC, and not a lot of character development set me up for success. And I had a great time. 

Romatasy, Enemies to Lovers, 2 🔥

“A portal into the mind of a creature so unlike me, and yet … and yet I looked at its work and understood, and felt, and cared.“

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kateb15'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

theghostthatannoysyou's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous mysterious 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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Despite not being my usual choice of book, this has reignited my passion for reading. I couldn’t wait to pick it up again to find out more about the world, the dynamics and the outcomes of decisions. Although I did find some of the choices and writing questionable at points, the world building and character growth and development made it a worthwhile read! I can see why this book has so much hype around it and have immediately picked up the next! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Sexual harassment, War

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Blood

Minor: Vomit, Death of parent, Murder

maclepac's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, War

zaraabbas550's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense 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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This book was incredible! There’s a lot of things in the beginning I was so confused and maybe even a little cringed out by but as soon as you learned the reasonings behind everything it was just so lovely. I am in lOVE with all of the characters esp MC, she has so much development throughout the book, aswell as the relationships built it was truly amazing. I loved how it was an easy read but still had so much detail. Last thing! I LOVED how the spicy scenes were kept short and sweet, enough to get me a little giddy but not to much to where i was like “okayy when will this end” (i’m not really into a lot of spice) I will 100% be continuing the story i’m ecstatic to see where Rhys and MC relationship goes and how her and tam end up aswell!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Blood

Minor: Death, Death of parent

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

havenotreadinyears's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Blood, Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent, War