Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1142 reviews

kellycallenm's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark 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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**Spolier** Interesting retelling of Beauty and the Beast and then some. **/Spoiler** Certain passages were especially gruesome, see content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Murder

annikabc's review against another edition

2.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Lil' miss Stockholm syndrome needs to get a grip. All of these people are awful.

Tamlin is so bland and also lies so much. I looked up who she ends up with and I'm so glad its not him... although Rhys is also awful.

 
Anyway I had fun despite it all so 2.25 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Sexual harassment

shinyfox's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting, War

Minor: Death of parent

hunteress14's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

hanxahjudd's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark 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: Complicated

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Fun, adventurous, horny, dark but surprisingly lovely and interwoven with folklore and romance. Got me out of a reading slump for sure 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Slavery

whimsyforestfairy's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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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This book will always hold a special place in my heart as the beginning of my love for reading. It roped me in and I remember absolutely loving it at the time. It isn’t my favourite of the ACOTAR series but it is a sentimental one for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder

gvyv's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous lighthearted relaxing fast-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, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, War

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent

rachelpacz's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment

amaranthines's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Murder

Minor: Animal death

skeletor23's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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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Book really drags in the beginning to give too much world exposition before we even have the chance to care, surrounds main character by a family of near irredeemable characters that makes reader question why it spends so much time on them in the beginning, and repeats formulaic sequence of main character outright being stupid and putting self into harms way by doing the opposite of advice given, having to be rescued time and time again in drawn out false climaxes. That being said, the book redeems itself in the 3rd quarter, building on characters, creative action sequences, romance, and straight up gore and tragedy into resolution to make us feel something for an initially dull and annoyingly dumb main character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism

book spends so much time focusing and building on a main love interest (Tamlin) that it basically character assassinates them at the end by having him do literally nothing and say nothing to help save the main character-who is literally going through a prolonged gauntlet of death and torture to free him out of love- from being brutally beaten and mentally broken and eventually horrifically and slowly killed in front of him. Feels like a massive waste of his character and readers time, and is frustrating to the reader.