Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

102 reviews

aammeess's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

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!!!

coethedragon's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Miscarriage, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Slavery

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

jessicalarson125's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Miscarriage, Violence, War, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy, Confinement, Genocide, and Body horror

Minor: Slavery, Child abuse, and Torture

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

singingshooter'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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, Gore, Medical trauma, Vomit, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Miscarriage, Murder, Slavery, Suicide, Death, Excrement, Grief, and War

maireadryan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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 is the best TOG book so far. Everything finally came together and it was so exciting and had me on my toes the whole time. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Slavery, Stalking, Pregnancy, Torture, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Physical abuse, Vomit, and Sexual content