Reviews tagging 'Gore'

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

212 reviews

anndreya's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Vomit

fullybookedlola's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

This book just became my favourite of the series. It was so so good. Starting in the Spring Court made me already excited and then the end, oh. my. god. The hype I felt while reading this book, it was incredible. 
So well written! So heartbreaking, and so many twists, but so good! 
I don't have words for it, but I can say i really enjoyed reading all of it. From begin to end. Bat boys, go! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Kidnapping, War, Violence, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Gore, Murder, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Outing

shaylnm's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

I truthfully loved this book just as much as mist and fury. They do feel very different reading. This book is action packed and brimmed with love. Tamlin felt like watching a tennis match with how much he was swinging in his decentness. Absolutely love Mor and her story explored more in this book. I was surprised with how heavy there seemed to be focusing on Nesta and Cassian, but I didn’t mind it either. This book completely took me along the ride with emotions. I was vengeful with them, sad with them, scared with them, and unbelievably happy with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Gore, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Torture

Minor: Kidnapping

holsphilo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and War

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

alimxx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I enjoyed the start but when it got to the middle I just felt like there was a lot of nothing going on and it was very repetitive. The ending is the best part I would say. There is a LOT of good stuff that goes on and that is the only thing that makes it worth reading I think. It's good and I'd recommend the series but SJM needs to know how to shorten as some of it I feel was unnecessary. Also, what is this "vulgar gesture" mentioned throughout??? LIKE GIVE US SOME DETAIL??? She gives detail about everything else except this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Cannibalism, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

trilli_pop's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, and Sexual content

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

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

Wowee! Feyre was really in her side quest era in this book! From Tams court, to talking to Suri, to the mirror, to the Byraxis, to Elain, to flying, SHES BUSY! 

The first 500 pages made me think this book was gonna be 4 stars, cause it was a smidge slow, but the last 200 really made up for it. Every time my parents tried to converse with me during that time, I had to tell them, “Can’t talk, I’m at war.”

Those pages made me verbally scream “WHAT?!”, “YAY!”, “OH MY GOD!”, “NO!!!!!!” And lastly, “HUH??!”

Twas a very fun rollercoaster! The lore in this world is crazy! 

Overall, I felt like the last book was essentially the love story of two characters and in this book, I felt like it was a different kind of love story. Like it was focused on the love they shared, but also the love that they hold for their people, their family, and their dreams for what their world could become. 

I LIKED IT, DAMMIT! 

FROST AND STARLIGHT IM COMING FOR YOU NEXT!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, War, Classism, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Grief

annie_mai's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

It's tough to be the book that follows ACOMAF, but ACOWAR does the job. 

Feyre is back with a vengeance, she's very different to the classic female main character we met in the first book. She's powerful, dangerous, and has no issues with killing to get what she wants, even though

it effected her so much after what happened Under the Mountain???

. It did feel like quite a dramatic change of character from the last two books, but after everything that's happened, it makes sense. 

I wish longer was spent on

the war. It felt over far too quickly, with only a handful of battles it didn't feel like a lot was at stake. Hybern felt like a faceless force of killable footsoldiers, instead of something terrifying.

 

The action and violence is great as usual. Love the writing style and descriptions. The plot was good, it felt like there was a lot at stake, and even though there was lots happening, I felt like o could follow along quite well. 

Lots of questions remain unanswered, and it's definitely left room for more stories to be written in this series, which I look forward to! But you could totally finish reading the series here, it rounds off in quite a nice way. It feels like the end of a trilogy. 

Overall, if you've made it through the first two books, you might as well read this one too! 8/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Gore and Cursing