Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

246 reviews

bee12345's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Classism, Slavery, Violence, War, Death, Medical trauma, Cursing, Physical abuse, Torture, Grief, Murder, Drug use, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Confinement, and Suicidal thoughts

pastellasilver's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Sarah J. Maas hat wie üblich einen großen Epos angefangen, der stark auf Chrakteren und ihren Beziehungen aufbaut. Bryce und Danika verbindet eine tiefe Freundschaft, die dem Buch einen riten Faden gibt und bei der ich nur deshalb nicht grün vor Neid werde, weil es in meinem Leben eine Danika gibt.
Ich mochte das Buch sehr gerne. Die Trauerbewältigung der Charaktere fühlt sich real und ebenso tragisch an. Das Buch hat viele Stellen, an denen die Trauer eine zentrale Rolle spielt, die ich persönlich schwer zu lesen fand. Dennoch waren diese Stellen ebenso gut, wie der Rest des Buches.
Mir persönlich war jedoch manchmal die sexuelle Spannung im Buch zu viel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death, Blood, Classism, Racism, Murder, Slavery, Cursing, Gun violence, Alcoholism, and Drug use

Moderate: Mental illness, War, and Bullying

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

jackiepreston's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Death, Blood, Drug use, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: War, Torture, and Violence

suenoyume's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Torture, Murder, Grief, and Slavery

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

nic025's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Not my favorite by SJM, but that bar is pretty high. A ton of world building that mixes fantasy elements with the backdrop of a modern city that works most of the time. I hard a hard time believing the chemistry of the two protagonists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Slavery, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty and War

larajgriff1's review against another edition

adventurous 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

I enjoyed this book a lot.  It reminded me of the Anita Blake books by Laurell K Hamilton and I loved those in high school.  However I am giving this book 4 stars cause I just really hate how LONG Maas's books are.  I do not need to be reading something that could double as a bludgeoning weapon!  Also just the nonchalant comments of looking at someone's boobs, ass, pecs... someone might enjoy it, I do not, so it knocked it down for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Blood, Bullying, Gore, Torture, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Classism, Animal cruelty, Grief, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Murder, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Gun violence

bowedbookshelves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Alcohol, Grief, Physical abuse, War, Suicidal thoughts, and Cursing

jdromsky's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

Sarah J Maas outdoes herself yet again with fantastic world building! And while

Hunt and Bryce’s relationship

is crucial to the story, I loved that Bryce and Danika’s friendship was the crux.  Their literally undying friendship

saved not only the city, but most importantly Bryce’s life

. It is very VERY rare I think to find a “romantasy” book where the focal “romance” is between platonic friends. We need more of this in not only the fantasy genre, but in life in general, and I’m 110% here for it!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, War, Death, and Drug use

rchulin1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, War, Medical content, Physical abuse, Addiction, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Grief, Gun violence, Blood, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Alcohol, Cursing, Mental illness, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Gore, Classism, Death, Hate crime, and Murder

amateur_bookworm's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

Genre: Fantasy, romantasy, fiction 

My summary: Bryce Quinlan is a half-fae half-human party girl living in Crescent City. Her roommate and best friend since college is Danika Fendyr, a powerful wolf shifter that will someday lead her pack. The two are inseparable, as well as with Danika’s pack, until gruesome murders occur that rock Bryce’s world to her core. Two years later, when another similar murder occurs, Bryce finds herself pulled into the investigation to try to find the killer and avenge the deaths of those closest to her. Bryce is saddled with Hunt Athalar, the Shadow of Death, a fallen angel and a slave to the Archangels, in the investigation. In a world ruled by the Asteri and governed by the Archangels, the constant war between the Vanir and the humans set a backdrop of Bryce and Hunt trying to save Crescent City in their quest for vengeance. 

My thoughts: Wow. Just….. wow. I really don’t know why I waited so long to read this one. I absolutely loved Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series. But then I really didn’t enjoy her Throne of Glass series so I just put off starting Crescent City, figuring I’d wait until closer to the third book coming out in January 2024. I was worried the hype around this series was too much, but, no, no, so far the first book is as fantastic as everyone said it was. This is some serious fantasy. I’m generally not too much of a fantasy reader and the world building in this is A LOT. I knew on page 20 (out of 799 pages) that I would definitely have to re-read this again to even begin to really understand all of it, which feels really daunting at that point of a book this long. I had literally no idea what was happening through the first third of the book. If you find yourself in the same boat, just keep pushing through and it is so, so worth it. The last of the book is so intense and I literally cannot wait to start on the next one in the series to keep going with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug use, Slavery, Violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Cursing, Death, and Murder

Moderate: War, Alcohol, Trafficking, Sexual content, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Confinement