Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

94 reviews

sgollogly's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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By far, my favorite of the series. It is a bit jarring to go from a first person POV (Feyre) to a third person POV that exclusively follows Cassian and Nesta.
The growth of Nesta's character and her confrontation of her self-destructive behavior may not appeal to everyone, but I ended up falling in love with her as a character. Cassian is my favorite male SJM character across all three of her series. The found family Nesta makes for herself with Emerie and Gwyn is beautiful to watch unfold. Be warned, Rhys in this book is not the Rhys of the first four ACOTAR books-- whether that is due to Feyre's unreliable narration or Nesta's disdain for her brother-in-law, I was shocked at the transformation. 
The only two issues I had with the book are the withholding of pertinent medical information from Feyre which takes away all her agency in the name of "protection". And I hate that a series all about the different strengths of women can end with a total sacrifice of power in favor of "settling down with a family" for both Feyre and Nesta (hinted at in the future).

It will be interesting to see how ACOTAR 6 deals with this and which relationship will be the spotlight of the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault

starfall_11's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous 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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A LOT OF SMUT.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

thedambookshelf's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, War

Minor: Rape

joeysgo's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional 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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You don't read this for the literary genius. If you can look past the bells and whistles of foul language and adult themed scenes, the storyline holds up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent

kaliecameron's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol

emi345's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, War

prispris88's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It may have taken me forever to actually finish this book because I kept putting it down after being pissed at

the poor choices Nesta was making for the first half of the book. Once she starts training the book turns around.

I loved the character development of Nesta and the various good relationships she finally has

(e.g Cassian, her friends, her sisters, etc). It was nice to learn the justification for the way she has been and how she changes. I think I might actually like Nesta/Cassian more than the other couples in this whole series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment

heyel's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Pregnancy

There is a traumatic pregnancy during the story

gabriella_books's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence