Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

52 reviews

orakuruno's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

That was literally such a good time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Death, War, Body horror, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Rape, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

Minor: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Outing, and Confinement

kmthorson2's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Death of parent, Body horror, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Classism, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and War

Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual violence, Stalking, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Sexism, and Sexual content

strange_abalone's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Lesbophobia, Torture, Vomit, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Body horror, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and War

gpfot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Sexual violence, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Hate crime, Kidnapping, and Murder

mmgreen23's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, War, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, Infidelity, and Xenophobia

soph22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-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

5.0

Best of the series so far. Totally get the hype, totally love it and have fallen for Cassian.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Gore, Violence, and Vomit

calyssat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Grief

Moderate: Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Blood, Sexism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

debstrain's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

👏🏻 Finally 👏🏻 some 👏🏻 LGBTQ+👏🏻 representation 👏🏻 Half way through reading this I decided to go on the hunt for a different book/series. I craved something with as much adventure and lovable characters but with queer characters/protagonists. However, in finishing the book it seems Maas finally decided to give us some queer characters after all (even though it did feel like she just launched them all within the final third of this book). I actually audibly cheered at the line

  “ because …I prefer females” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I absolutely love the characters in this series, I think they’re mainly what keeps me going with the books but, my GOD, the writing can get extremely tedious at times. The same irks I found with the first few books in the series have, unfortunately, remained and if I read the following phrases again I may scream:

“her/his mouth became a thin line”

“my bowels turned watery”

“the wood groaned beneath him /them/it”

“his eye whirred”

and so many more I couldn’t keep track 🤦🏻‍♀️

There were even a few times that had me questioning the grammar tbh but here I am powering through. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 
I do wish we could have been left on a bit more of a cliffhanger too. I don’t really feel compelled to immediately start the next book as I have previously.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Domestic abuse

aimnorth's review

emotional funny tense fast-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

3.5

I feel like the end of the book could have had more development time. There were lots of very big things happening and the stakes did not feel genuine and the consequences were lacking. But over all this book made me fall in love with so many side characters that it's almost obscene. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, War, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

devynvma0508's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book has the most plot development in the series but it is very long. The beginning hooks you in, the middle can be a little boring, but the end of this book is amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Cursing, Violence, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness and Death of parent

Minor: Toxic relationship and Domestic abuse