Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

370 reviews

f33lsom3thing's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Confinement, and Sexism

itsahmorgan's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.25

I honestly wasn’t impressed by this book. If you’re looking for something that has a lot of common basic tropes crammed into a fantasy book, this kind of nails it. If you’re looking for something fresh and exciting, I wouldn’t recommend it based on this first book in the series. That being said, I might give book 2 a try since I’ve heard a lot of people say to push through to that one and it picks up. It might be worth the time eventually, we’ll see.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Torture, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

clairemitchell's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

Tamlin is Howl from Howl’s moving castle. I feel like this is gonna turn in to a love triangle and that’s rough because a. Tamlin is great, he’s a protector and believes in her and supports her and I like him a lot. And b. I’m monogamous and do not support cheating in anyway and for this to become a love triangle with Rhys something sad would have to happen.

Rhys is great too, and I like enemies to lovers tropes so them together would probably be more interesting. If she chooses him won’t the love of this book be for naught? She does everything out of love for Tamlin. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Gore, Torture, Confinement, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

kdawgreads69's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

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

3.5

it was good but the writing was a bit ridiculous n repetitive at times, and toward the end it seemed to drag on for a while

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Animal death, and Gore

ananya_b's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.0

This was a really wonderful read! The pacing is fast and the plot is gripping. I could hardly put it down until I'd finished. Maas has a wonderful writing style too, apart from one too many uses of "my throat closed up" and "my mouth went dry" and a couple of grammatical errors- I found it slightly more ornate than that of most other modern writers, and there's definitely a lot less swearing. 

The characters are well-rounded, especially Feyre. There are a couple of plot inaccuracies

- for instance, the question of why Feyre couldn't see the Attor at first, despite the fact that it wasn't a member of the Spring Court.

Nonetheless, this was one of the best books I've read. I can't wait to read the rest of the series - I hope they're as good as this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, and Slavery

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Vomit, War, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, and Suicidal thoughts

circe813's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

I’ve heard the rest of the series gets better, but this didn’t really compel me to read the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

winealittlereadalot's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, Torture, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual content

orakuruno's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I kinda like that bat man

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Body horror, War, Torture, and Sexual content

Moderate: Trafficking, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

Minor: Grief, Bullying, Animal death, Classism, Confinement, and Death of parent

chris_reads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Blood, Confinement, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Sexual harassment

jeslis's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Notes:
- This wasn't that bad of a book tbh and I had forgotten how fun and exciting fast-paced fantasy book scenes can be — but there were just a lot of writing things that irked me.
- We need to decide who the target audience is! Reads like YA but is meant to be adult fiction is frustrating to read.
- Repetitive narrative phrases (eg. Feyre's "human incompetence", scenery is described through how much she wants to paint it, telling us Tamlin's in trouble).
- Maybe some elements of the story need to be told better in the writing? Amarantha didn't seem like an overly convincing villain and

I would like a bit more definition on Rhysand's nuanced love/hate feelings towards Feyre (why is he helping her if he hates her??) as well as on Feyre's character motivations in going after Tamlin Under the Mountain. Is she capable as a human that we as the readers can root for or does she want him back so badly she'd risk it all? Pls decide.

- Pick-me-girl MC syndrome is strong in this one. We get it! You're """"just an incompetent, lowly human"""""""!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Torture