Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

107 reviews

kmack79's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Grief, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Gore

sharlapeggy's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I liked it! I read first before TOG and COM. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Excrement, Slavery, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Animal death, Death, Torture, and Trafficking

emilywemily6's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.25

This collection of stories about Calaena before the Throne of Glass events was harder to get through than I thought, and I think it’s because I knew the eventual outcome for both Calaena and Sam 😭 I really enjoyed the second and third stories though. I saw the “twist” of whose to blame from a mile away and felt like this grouping of prequel stories didn’t add a lot to the series as a whole, but gave me more time with Calaena’s character. I was really hoping for more info about the HUGE spoiler revealed at the end of Crown of Midnight, but all we got was an allusion to Calaena keeping secrets about her past 👀 So while I enjoyed this read, it didn’t meet my expectations in a couple ways. I am excited to get back into the rest of the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Slavery, Body horror, Colonisation, Alcohol, Death, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Trafficking, Grief, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Murder, Child abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Stalking, Sexual content, Abandonment, Racism, and Sexism

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Grief, Confinement, Vomit, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Violence, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Murder, and Trafficking

Moderate: Body horror, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

Moderate: Murder, Child abuse, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Body horror, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Torture, Blood, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Slavery

tiredtori's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Confinement, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Body horror

merrow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.75

It was nice to have some background on this series, but it didn’t really deliver on showing us Adarlan’s Assassin, who

got into trouble and tricked every assassination we were shown

. It’s the same for her first true love, who’s just another enemies to lovers and

lovers for only a month off screen before he’s killed

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Slavery, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Gore, Violence, Death, Murder, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Colonisation, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Blood

savvyrosereads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

February 2024 reread:

I loved this one just as much the second time around, and remain confident in my assertion this one should be read first. Also Sarah if you disagreed why do the acknowledgements to this one say “I hope you’ll enjoy seeing where [Celaena’s] adventures take her in Throne of Glass”?! Hm? I rest my case.

Original review (March 2023):

Rating: 4.5/5 stars.

It took me over a decade to get to this series and it was absolutely worth the wait. A hill I will happily die on is that you need to read this one FIRST. It comes first in the box set! The promo poster literally says the journey BEGAN WITH A BLADE.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Physical abuse, and Torture

noetical's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

mrsalexisrjones's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The life of a 17year old assassin. This book features four novellas.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Toxic friendship, Torture, and Blood