Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Regatul spinilor și al trandafirilor by Sarah J. Maas

517 reviews

liezie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

librarianinacardigan's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

chels984's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.25

feyre is a baddie but why do i love rhysand 😻😻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

spiderdrac's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I honestly did love this book, very little descriptive sex scenes which I enjoyed. The ending was super well written and mostly just felt a little rushed at times. I wish we got to know more about the villain but I also understand it's the first book in a long series. 

My biggest complaints come from when Feyre and Tamlin first start the whole romance things. It felt, underdeveloped. Like he does a few nice things for her and then she's suddenly head over heals for him almost for no reason. She forgives him way to quickly and for someone who was kidnapped, kinda just looks over it and forgives him for VERYRHINF. Lucine is my fav though, and Feyre also forgives him too quickly. 

I enjoyed the ending but the middle and begining where a slight drag. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Murder

duck_24's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

immornatalie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

5.0

A beautifully written page-turner. I couldn’t finish it fast enough. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

mvdd1's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent

doomfaery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

Honestly... The writing isn't amazing. It's clumsy and a little rushed, and the same could be said about the romance. Descriptions are repetitive. However there are some well thought out moments. Things especially get interesting around the 230 page mark. It's got potential to get better and the story itself isn't horrible. 

However, the feather so black series is similar enough and much better written for anyone looking! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual content

babyfacedoldsoul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

I decided to finally read this book and it makes for a fun summer read, particularly the graphic audio. I had not realized how deeply it is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I enjoyed that the story did become its own work especially towards the end. I enjoyed the characters and felt that SJM wrote a convincing representation of a 19 year old who had a lot on her shoulders. This was a fun read and I do have some criticisms. 
The author jumps around with the timeline a lot. Often it felt like some descriptions were given once and then never mentioned again which made it especially hard to go back and revisit details on audio. I was able to figure out the riddle immediately but I still felt satisfaction when my guess was correct. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lalesbianlune's review against another edition

adventurous

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

3.5

I went into this knowing that

Tamlin was not the hero

which probably changed my experience. I really enjoyed the worldbuilding and Feyre as a character. I was also instantly excited for Nesta having a storyline of her own since she was so dynamic just in her few scenes. 

The Under the Mountain portions were definitely the best but I spent so much of that part thinking “I bet Rhysand is going to end up as some redeemed bad guy, but getting her drunk and touching her is just wrong.”

Sped through this, after so long not reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual harassment