Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Regatul spinilor și al trandafirilor by Sarah J. Maas

366 reviews

littlewishling's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

3.5

I enjoyed ACOTAR but didn't feel it lived up to all the hype. I found Feyre to be a difficult character to like and honestly cared more about Lucien than anyone else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

ddemakeas's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• 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

3.75

I think that this book is pretty alright. The protagonist wasn’t exactly my favourite— she’s very hypocritical and monotonous, but does have a lot of character development through the first book (though I still don’t really enjoy her). The other characters were far more captivating to me, as well as the world-building being quite thorough. However, I will say that the writing can get boring at times and the way this book finished was extremely disappointing, but only because I would think it happens later in the series. Overall, not a horrible book I do recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Classism

tea_leaves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment, Torture, Death of parent, Vomit, Body horror, and Sexual content

kelseyr713's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

This was so fun! Uses tropes and elements from many different stories, but sometimes you just need an escape / brain candy book and I immediately wanted to read the rest of the series after finishing this one. I can’t wait to see what happens next!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Body horror, Sexual content, Confinement, Death of parent, War, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Xenophobia, and Torture

Minor: Slavery

m_parker9612's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Excrement, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, and Slavery

monsarona's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

It was a good easy read to kick start reading again. An obvious beauty and the beast retelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Kidnapping, Gore, Death of parent, Classism, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, and War

Minor: Vomit

weirdemosrus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Torture, Racism, Blood, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Slavery and Confinement

brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, War, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

17michaelasully's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.75

It's your standard fantasy book with some smut here and there.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Sexual harassment, Torture, War, Blood, Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Death, and Death of parent

cararowen's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

Colonizer trash meets beauty and the beast, plot requires main character to have no sense, does not have any actual character development, dubious consent for so so many scenes. Very my first romance novel vibes.

Feyra is not like the other girls, she's special, she's not hot but ever fairy man desires her, she's unable to listen to the most basic instructions, beauty and the beast is about compromise, this is about ignoring your boyfriend is rich because his daddy owned people and having your main character intoxicated and/or enchanted and/or manipulated into every sexual situation then claiming it's love. It's about having zero feelings of guilt when you get other people in trouble or dead and being consistently rewarded.

I have never disliked a text more than this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Blood, and Xenophobia

Minor: Slavery, Stalking, War, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, Gore, Misogyny, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual content, and Domestic abuse