Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1144 reviews

sidequestguy's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War

a_familiar_place's review against another edition

4.0

medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Murder

Minor: Body horror, Cursing, Sexual assault, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

maierlaier's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment

poppyskills's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

lucykae's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous tense medium-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

katelynw04's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

moonrosemother's review against another edition

0.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Many plot holes, character development was next to none except for the main female character, the author has over described and under described parts, all characters seem to be white so there's no diversity at all. 

The author hasnt learned about any of the hobbies of the main character; the mc is a painter and hunter; yet the mc will often say to herself: "i dont know the name of the colour, so i will keep it for later", while it is true that not everyone knows the names of colours, SJM could still have described them better.

SPOILERS:

The MC's family starts off as having lost lots of wealth and were living in a shack having forced the MC to hunt for food, and the family (except MC) was in denial of it, even after 8 years and expected the MC to care for them. However, while MC was under the "care" of her kidnapper, the kidnapper gave the mc's family more wealth that they had before, thus the family learned nothing.

 

Adittionally

One of the characters towards the end while shown that he could torture the minds of fae and humans, sexually assulted the MC, however this was thrown in at the END of the book, thus seeming to have not been thought out at all.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

All in all, could have been written or even edited better.

savannahrosema's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder

suchallie's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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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Mostly no complaints except that the reveal of the

curse on Tamlin

was way too easy, it felt like a tying up of loose ends and wasn’t cleverly intertwined into the story, much too convenient. I also solved the riddle immediately?? 

I’m also not sure I love the way information is introduced in the writing style, sometimes I was like did I miss something? but it’s forgivable. 

The story feels innovative and fresh though which is exciting. 

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Content Warnings

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

beejulee's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous hopeful relaxing tense slow-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: Yes

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I have no words. I’m not sorry. 

Shoutout to The Reading Hag for TRULY immersing me into this series. Please if anyone wants to read this with the audiobook, listen to her on YouTube or Patreon. She absolutely influenced my interest in this series.

Edit (After Calming Down A Year Later)

I would personally give this a 4.5 due to the fantasy politics that were beginning to develop-- it wasn't what I was most interested in. I believe why I liked this book so much is for the same reason why others may dislike this book. I loved the details and descriptions of everything: how Feyre was hunting in the woods, how she observed the beauty of the spring court, the look of Tamlin's skin and body and how it glowed, the description of the events that occurred, etc. I am a big cottagecore, slow-paced, lifestyle kind of girl and if you remove the climax and abuse that came afterwards, the story was beautiful. I wish this was a stand alone book or there were more books that went in detail on the simple things that Feyre was (reluctantly) a part of while in the Spring Court trying to understand everything.

I know most people hate Tamlin due to the later books and love Rhysand but I  wasn't a fan of that concept, and I'm glad it wasn't *too* pushed in this first book. I enjoyed seeing Tamlin & Feyre's development together and I wished they did more with it properly in the later books, rather than making him a sellout and having Rhysand become the "tall, dark & handsome bad boy" that everyone loves.  Otherwise, remove the dungeon and torture, the sick villain, the foreshadowing of another man being a love interest, make Tamlin have better character development and it would have been a true solid five stars.

Give me more books with nonsense descriptions about the way the character paints, the way she spends time in the gardens and forests, etc. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Murder