Reviews tagging 'Child death'

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

53 reviews

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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

Rating: 5/5 stars 

 

This is the third book in the Crescent City series and I literally can’t say anything more about the plot than that without spoilers. 

 

Let me start by saying that as a newer member of the SJM fandom, this was my first time getting to live through the release of a new SJM novel in real time/on release day, and honestly I think participating in the hype and staying up until ridiculous hours to read absolutely added to the experience. I stayed up until 5am on release day just to finish this, and even though my sleep schedule still hasn’t recovered a week later, I don’t regret it in the slightest. 

 

On to the actual book—I don’t want to post any spoilers so this will be a pretty generic review, but I LOVED this one. It’s absolutely my favorite in the Crescent City series so far, and it solidified certain characters as all-time favorites for me. It also made me more emotional than any book I’ve ever read before, and I sobbed (real, gasping, ugly cry, fill-up-the-sea kind of sobs) for roughly an hour straight through the final 200 pages or so. 

 

If you’re not already reading SJM books, you should fix that! 

 

CW: Lots of violence/war/death/blood/injury/torture; sexual violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

keikiqueen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

My most anticipated book of the last two freaking years. s someone who waited and speculated for the realest….. it’s not what I thought it would be. It’s a lot darker, but also had so many happy moments. There was a plaint I was convinced there would be a. Book 4 but she managed to wrap it up in this one. I cried at the end. Also still forever pissed that ******spoilers…… no tog characters appeared by name*****

But the characters and there motivations and everything just ugh. Connor made me cry; my heart bleeds for Ithan always……… Ruhm yes. I think there will be another book cuz too many characters were left unfinished/unanswered.

https://www.reddit.com/r/crescentcitysjm/s/QPzwnnpuYH

Link to bonus chapters if anyone wants or cares

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Slavery, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

dixiecarroll's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

Motherfucking banger from start to finish. For an 800+ page book it was never slow or boring (and I’ll admit that her first two had moments like this). I had a brief moment of inconsolable weeping and ended up loving it completely. Everything I needed and wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail