Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

312 reviews

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

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

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.

taylorm11's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Yes

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i liked how SJM illustrated the world of Prythian. It was easy to digest, but left a lot up to the imagination of the reader on the visuals of people/landscapes. 
Second half of the book was more enjoyable than the first half. I appreciated her writing skills for the action scenes. However, I found the dialogue hard to follow at times of who’s speaking. Additionally, I found her depictions of the faerie’s powers a little confusing at times as well. 
You could feel the chemistry through the book, which led an enticing read. Definite page turner, finished within 24 hours.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Torture, Blood

Moderate: Sexual content

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

sierraclimbs's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny 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: Yes

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Honestly, I think the hype for this book is justified! I’ve been nervous to dive in to this series because I am not a fan of smut. But, at least for this first one, it was not filled with unnecessary smut. There was a lot of relationship build up, which I like because I don’t understand lust at first sight (I’m more of a lust post love kinda gal). The few steamy scenes were not explicit (in my opinion) & the main sex scene was fade to black. 
I anticipate that the next few will not be so… tame… but I will probably continue! Which was not something I thought I was going to say. 

The story itself was really compelling. I enjoyed this little escapism into a fae realm where there are very human issues still afoot. This first book was very much establishing lore & magic so I’m excited to see how it builds in the next ones. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent

catastrophiclyss's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

deedeegib's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

juliacreson's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Finally caved and listened to this book and I ate it up!!! Hate Feyre so much LMAO but ik her being in idiot is what makes the plot so juicy so I’ll accept it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content

nclausel25's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark hopeful 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Slavery

Minor: Religious bigotry