Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

218 reviews

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

lancy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

it was enjoyable but quite slow pace,

but the part were hunt tried to save Bryce really got me wanting to cry

and the part were they cut his wings aka Micah hate him btw i cried my balls out omg ahhhh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Blood, Deadnaming, Bullying, Cursing, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Body shaming, and Child abuse

Minor: Grief, Slavery, Stalking, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Murder, and Hate crime

brit0817's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Toxic friendship

kaylagcook's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery

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

lauren_drinkard's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Slavery, and Torture

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

abrataydabra's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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? Yes

4.0

I feel like I hyped this book up too much AND put off reading it for way too long because it just didn’t meet my expectations. It was exciting to meet a lot of the characters for the “first” time (especially Sam and Lysandra) but I just expected more. More of what, exactly? Idk… just more of everything. That little snippet at the end of Arobynn being the conniving, manipulative, SOB that he is did break my heart a little though. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, and Toxic relationship

marzandme's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Slavery

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