Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

80 reviews

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

heftsi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Physical abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Death, War, Confinement, Torture, Violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Incest

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

mary_do_12's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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

4.5

i’m only here for rowan.
- 0.5 stars because the first half of the book was boring without him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Slavery, Blood, Vomit, Self harm, Murder, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Violence, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, War, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Torture

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

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

WE ARE HOME, BABY! HELL YEAH TESSAREN! 

Wowee that was quite the epic tale! 

Felt a smidge slow at the start but the last 200 pages were crazy af in usual SJM manner. 

Here are my thoughts on the characters for this book:

I’m so flipping HAPPY that Dorian got freed, poor sweet summer child, he didn’t deserve to be possessed for so long! BUT ALSO! Every single person just frickin left him to run a country on his own???? After he was tortured for months?!??! Like Aelin and her court all left to go North, and Chaol and Nesryn are going south! Who’s going to watch our battered and bruised lil king?!?! I don’t trust any of these Adarlan jerks to treat him right! But something I’m hopeful for is that I feel like Manon and him may become a thing????? That’d be quite the dynamic! Can’t wait! 

Manon you’re sick af and a rockstar queen. Keep rocking, girlie! Hope Elide doesn’t get lost in the woods or break her other leg after you just left her there. 

Also Lorcan was a fun lil addition, I don’t like him but I think he’s fun! Saucy lil guy! 

I hope Lysandra and Aedion get together, they’d be really cute especially since she can scare the shit outta him. Good for her. She’s becoming one of my favs. 

Aelin, I love you and Rowan together but I really wish it wasn’t established that you are blood relatives. I don’t care how distantly related you are, the fact that you can say “let’s go visit our aunt” is WEIRD. But long live the QUEEN! 

Chaol, buddy, you really were pissing me off this book. Sorry about your lil leggies and I hope you get them back but you need to drink your “respect women” juice and treat Nesryn right pls cause I am getting real sick of your antics. 

Now, ONTO THE TANDEM READ! LETS GOOOOOOOO

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Medical content, Rape, Miscarriage, Grief, Incest, Vomit, Genocide, Physical abuse, War, Bullying, Drug use, Abandonment, Blood, Pregnancy, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Cannibalism, Violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual assault

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Cursing, and Slavery

Minor: Sexual content, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Pregnancy, Vomit, Suicide, Alcohol, and Kidnapping