Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

8 reviews

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

WE ARE HOME, BABY! HELL YEAH TESSAREN! 

Wowee that was quite the epic tale! 

Felt a smidge slow at the start but the last 200 pages were crazy af in usual SJM manner. 

Here are my thoughts on the characters for this book:

I’m so flipping HAPPY that Dorian got freed, poor sweet summer child, he didn’t deserve to be possessed for so long! BUT ALSO! Every single person just frickin left him to run a country on his own???? After he was tortured for months?!??! Like Aelin and her court all left to go North, and Chaol and Nesryn are going south! Who’s going to watch our battered and bruised lil king?!?! I don’t trust any of these Adarlan jerks to treat him right! But something I’m hopeful for is that I feel like Manon and him may become a thing????? That’d be quite the dynamic! Can’t wait! 

Manon you’re sick af and a rockstar queen. Keep rocking, girlie! Hope Elide doesn’t get lost in the woods or break her other leg after you just left her there. 

Also Lorcan was a fun lil addition, I don’t like him but I think he’s fun! Saucy lil guy! 

I hope Lysandra and Aedion get together, they’d be really cute especially since she can scare the shit outta him. Good for her. She’s becoming one of my favs. 

Aelin, I love you and Rowan together but I really wish it wasn’t established that you are blood relatives. I don’t care how distantly related you are, the fact that you can say “let’s go visit our aunt” is WEIRD. But long live the QUEEN! 

Chaol, buddy, you really were pissing me off this book. Sorry about your lil leggies and I hope you get them back but you need to drink your “respect women” juice and treat Nesryn right pls cause I am getting real sick of your antics. 

Now, ONTO THE TANDEM READ! LETS GOOOOOOOO

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Medical content, Rape, Miscarriage, Grief, Incest, Vomit, Genocide, Physical abuse, War, Bullying, Drug use, Abandonment, Blood, Pregnancy, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Cannibalism, Violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual assault

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

I could not put this book down! Omg! It was sooooo good!!! 
Watching Aelin become who she was always meant to be & fight for her loved ones & what is right, is inspiring! The growth she has had since book 1 is in incredible! 
And the bromance between Chaol & Dorian is like my favorite bromance ever! Coming in second only to my bat boys. 
All the characters have incredible growth in this book! & I could go on about how much I love them all, but then this will get really long, so I won’t. 
But my favorite character is Rowan! & having him not being in the first third of the book gave me serious withdrawal! My heart just leaped out of my chest when he finally showed up! I was so ecstatic! I can’t wait to read more of him, & more of his relationship with Aelin! My heart! 💜 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, War, Classism, Death, Child abuse, Colonisation, Grief, Physical abuse, Slavery, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Cannibalism, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Genocide, Cursing, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, and Excrement

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

undecidedpersonality's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Medical content, War, Confinement, Slavery, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Pregnancy, Genocide, and Sexual violence

Minor: Classism, Sexual content, Child death, Colonisation, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child abuse

dlsmk's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

imds's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical trauma, Murder, Trafficking, War, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Blood, Gore, Grief, Self harm, Slavery, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Ableism, Death of parent, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

tatiannaskye's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

I’m kinda pissed at myself for taking a 7th month hiatus from this series. I had tears in my eyes majority of this book. Everything I wanted to happen at the end of the third book, happened in this one! And I just hope everything that I want to happen in the fourth book actually happened. Sarah J. Maas never disappoints. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Slavery, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Abandonment

Just lots of sadness

painausten314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Physical abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, War, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Violence, Slavery, Murder, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

Moderate: Abandonment, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Ableism

Minor: Miscarriage

tiredtori's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Gore, Torture, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, War, Confinement, Death, Vomit, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Ableism, Grief, Miscarriage, Child death, Trafficking, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Bullying, Cannibalism, and Child abuse