Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

47 reviews

_mnm_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Torture, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

elizabethortiz96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

Okay. Where do I even start?? I LOVED this book. The character development is SO good, I absolutely love all of the relationships and how they evolve so much. When Aelin almost kills Manon I really felt how much I'd grown to care about Manon cuz I didn't want her to kill her! That whole thing was great. Also, LYSANDRA??? Obsessed. The plot twist with the king and perrington and kind of Kaltain? Ah. I'm just so excited to see how this continues to evolve. 🤌🏼

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Cursing, Murder, Violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Death of parent, Grief, War, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Vomit

meghan_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

My favorite in the series so far!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, and War

Minor: Child death

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

Felt like the pacing was a bit off and that some of the character arcs changed a bit too fast in a short number of chapters to really be able to take in the change for the direction the story was going in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Stalking, War, Confinement, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pregnancy, Torture, Ableism, Child death, Blood, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Rape, Body horror, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

rorybug's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Kidnapping, Torture, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Grief, Physical abuse, Murder, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

emilywemily6's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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

5.0

So good, I can’t even describe it. So much happened in this book and there were so chapter cliffhangers that wrecked me so much. Even though it didn’t have a huge cliffhanger at the end I wanted to start the next book(s) asap to continue the story because I love these characters (except maybe Chaol still, I hold a grudge hehe).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Body horror, Car accident, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Classism, Medical content, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

emis_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

This book is pure perfection. I laughed and cried, felt every possible emotion. I love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Murder, Blood, Death of parent, War, Body horror, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

This book made me feel too many things. I mean: the whole Dorian thing, his fathers death, i wanna know if the king of Adarlan was actually a good person and just possessed. So many questions that i have. Even Arobynns death!!!

cayliehausman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

WOW it took me a while to get into this series, but for this one SJM didn’t hold punches. Action, adventure, tragedy, answers to questions and establishing more questions!

I hope that manon changes sides and Dorian is able to heal and that Elide finds Aelin and so much more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Murder, Emotional abuse, Torture, War, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

nikkic66's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Torture, Death, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

merrow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

Throughout this book, the action sequences are very well crafted to fit both the setting and the characters. Some of these characters really come into their own here, and the plot takes a direction that feels fitting but I didn’t fully expect.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Violence, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Slavery, Pregnancy, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content