Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Regatul spinilor și al trandafirilor by Sarah J. Maas

62 reviews

kathrinellis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

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

4.5

WOW. My first attempt at reading fantasy after several years and I devoured this book. Very gruesome, but captivating. I’m looking forward to finding out whether the next books in these series are even better. One thing which bothered me was the riddle with an (imo) obvious answer. Might have saved many injuries and lives… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cannibalism, Infidelity, Animal death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gore, Genocide, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, and War

jadie_berg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Death, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Classism, Death of parent, and Genocide

unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Excrement, Gaslighting, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Gore, War, Blood, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Genocide, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Confinement, Death, and Death of parent

amyhamilton's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

ripxw's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Death, Genocide, and Slavery

dadimabookernow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.75

Wow. Okay so I almost put this book down on a multitude of occasions but I'm really glad I didn't.

A big chunk of the book is very slow paced but damn that ending those last few chapters were just so good. I was unable to put the book down! 

I also like the way that it didn't really end on a cliff hanger like most series do. So if you aren't a person that enjoys reading series you can still read this book and be content with that as an ending for the story as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, War, and Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual content

arys_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.25

Amazing!! I had high hopes for this book and it was just as good as I thought it would be if not better. I was worried it would be a bit of an info dump like many fantasy books can be but the world building and explanations were amazing! 
The first chapter specifically was so amazingly written it felt like I was in the book. I loved the ending, it was a little predictable just because I found this book from TikTok and everyone talks about it. But still, it didn’t stop me from loving it. I think the main thing that stopped me from giving it 5 stars would be the love interest part. Ultimately the entire book focused on it and even though it was there, and I was rooting for them, it seemed a little bland, almost forced. The big romance moments, the realizations, the parts that made me swoon, were mostly from the characters thoughts and internal monologue. I would have loved to read something physical about it, something more. Honestly that probably made no sense but I want more reasoning as to why these love interests are what they are in the first place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol and Animal death

ikmussie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, and Adult/minor relationship

lanorton's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

cynthreads's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

0.25

This book is really bad. As for why it's bad, just read a few 1* reviews.

✧ Whenever Maas tries to express emotion, the characters start growling, gritting their teeth, or throwing up.
✧ The pacing is really bad.  Up until around 2/3 of the book, Feyre (the MC) doesn't do anything other than staying at home and flirting with the male leads. 
✧ The prose sucks.
✧ The morality (re: rape, slavery, imprisonment, complicity) is very fishy.
✧ The male leads are boring and two dimensional.

Do not recommend.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Kidnapping

Minor: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Slavery