Reviews tagging 'Violence'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1186 reviews

deedeegib's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Murder, Gore, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Sexual content

deltabaddie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

Booktok was right when they said this read was 🔥🔥🔥🔥. All I can say is I need more. If you are a lover of love, heartbreak, fantasy, sexiness then grab this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

risaleel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, War, Torture, Confinement, Murder, and Physical abuse

andhochmuth'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The world building and story telling is really good. I enjoyed the dynamic between the Fey world and the Human world. Towards the middle of the book there was a chapter that could have been title "Info Dumping" but I wasn't too upset since it was interesting information. Feyre starts off as annoying and very hard headed. While I never disliked her, it was hard sometimes reading about the terrible choices she would make despite being told it was a bad idea. 

Many of the graphic descriptions or allusions to torture were off putting. I know that was the point, but some of the characters seem to be over the top evil. Maybe Fey are different, but it seemed an unnecessary way to gain what they wanted. 

I loved the characters of Tamlin and Lucien. Both are genuinely good men, even if it is misguided at first. But you can tell how they do deeply care for Feyre and their people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Death of parent

Minor: War and Transphobia

Sexual abuse towards women

Towards the end of the book Feyre is stripped naked and painted from the neck down and only given a shear cloth to cover herself. She is taken to a party this way and coerced to dance for all to see. This happens every night for a couple of months. While it is explained in great detail the first time it slowly becomes common place and not mentioned as much, but it is still happening over several chapters.

tba_95's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

Okay characters, not bad plot. The writing style was a let down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Vomit

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Stalking, Drug use, Xenophobia, Blood, Sexual content, Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Grief, Slavery, Vomit, Toxic relationship, War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Confinement

Minor: Cursing and Self harm

heathere19's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.0

So... It was definitely entertaining but... It was like a combo of beauty and the beast meets Harry Potter meets Hercules or something like that where someone has to go through trials to prove something... I can see why ppl either just like this one or hate it. It wasn't boring though!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Torture, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Gore, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

gbrolsma16'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

For my first fantasy novel in a long time this was a fun and easy read. The romance plot was a bit tropey at times, but nonetheless the world-building made this forgivable. It was hard to get into at first but started to pique my interest more as the first few chapters finally completed the setup. Not the most deep or original in sone of the plot

this is kind of like Beauty and the Beast in some ways between the whole curse thing with a trapped girl to love him, a whole court of people under this curse too, and the library/painting gallery gift

but again, the world building saved this for me. I’m interested enough to read the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, War, and Xenophobia

venus_rose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, War, Murder, Gore, Death, Vomit, and Torture

Minor: Sexual assault, Slavery, Excrement, and Animal death

caffeinatednymph's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault