Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

229 reviews

heyitsmealondra's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.75

i cannot be the only one who hates bryce & hunt. i love every single other character but the two that i feel i’m supposed to love and support i could do without. it’s not that i hate bryce’s story either, i just feel the romance is forced. 

ruhn & lidia are the saving grace in this book. when this series continues i would love to be apart of any other character’s story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and War

Moderate: Sexual content and Slavery

josxphinchen's review against another edition

dark funny tense slow-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Sexism, Torture, Excrement, Misogyny, Body horror, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, and War

jpoe_16's review against another edition

I spent so long reading all the other SJM books only for this one to have me baffled at every turn. SJM switched POV’s so often with a “soap opera” type cliffhanger at the end of each POV. When it comes to the characters, it felt like we needed 2-3 more books of building relationships with them to really care about them. Do not get me started on the joy-sucking and utterly moronic character that is Tharion. 
Maybe one day I will come back to this, but after the reveal of HOSAB, this was such a let down I couldn’t keep going for now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Confinement, Colonisation, Death, Sexual content, Vomit, War, and Body horror

snickies's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.0

No book needs 102 chapters.
This book is a hot mess with too many characters, a slow dragging plot, and no consequences for the main characters. It makes me want to retroactively lower my ratings for her previous books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and War

Moderate: Sexual content

rhiannon_burden's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed this book at the root of it but Bryce was absolutely insufferable for the most part, she spent half the book complaining about the fae being selfish and callous and then proceeded to do exactly the same. She is essentially a hypocrite and I have no idea how Hunt puts up with her considering how horrible she was to him throughout. But despite what appears to be the popular opinion I enjoyed Ithan and Tharions stories as they had intricacies that others were lacking. There are some clear set ups for the next book namely the return of Ariadne at the end but otherwise the story felt finished as most ends were tied up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Gore, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Excrement, Genocide, War, Grief, Gun violence, Torture, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, and Slavery

lohannabux's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.5

I ll take 0.50 of for the cringe male/female talk. Otherwise I was super entertained.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Torture and War

Minor: Slavery

robin_roronoa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Funniest SJM book ever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Misogyny

clareabella96's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I did enjoy this book but I was more invested in the side characters rather than the main ones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

hspfost's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.25

Gave it an extra 0.25 because the ending packed a genuine emotional punch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

kayanoelle's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.0

How tf did nobody die😭😭 The book would’ve been better if Bryce and Hunt had both died, I’m so serious. I was hoping all throughout the book that at least one person would die, then I would’ve at least felt something, anything. But I already knew that we wouldn’t get that lucky😭 and what is it with the resurrecting?? Girl, there are no stakes, literally none.

The pacing was all over the place, why did we get 650 pages of world building and revelations (that I didn’t care about at all) and then everything went down within the last 150 pages? I know that she was probably trying to build the story up to a grand ending but it kinda didn’t work out because over 50% of the book was irrelevant. Everything worked out way too smoothly and conveniently.

I could tell that some (most) of the things were written to serve a certain purpose, like

Tharion jumping off that damn submarine and not even 20 pages later marrying Sathia. Which btw didn’t do anything for the story at all.

Bryce was so annoying and disrespectful, I started crying at one point because she got on my last nerve. Same with Tharion and Ithan drowning in self-pity.

Lidia, Ruhn and Hypaxia carried this book!! I need to know more about them. Sarah J Maas is very good at creating characters and relationships/friendships, that was easily my favorite part about all of the books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Kidnapping