Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

65 reviews

heidishartrandnewell's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Vomit, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Incest, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Excrement, Sexism, Colonisation, Infidelity, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Rape, and Slavery

bi_n_large's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Genocide, Sexual content, Gore, Confinement, Torture, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Rape, and Sexual violence

lpm_reads's review

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

A great third installment in the CC series; absolutely should be read in order, and you really should read Throne of Glass and ACOTAR books before starting CC. 

I didn't cry as hard as I did at the end of CC1, but there were definitely tears. Sarah J Maas has done it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Physical abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

savvyrosereads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

Rating: 5/5 stars 

 

This is the third book in the Crescent City series and I literally can’t say anything more about the plot than that without spoilers. 

 

Let me start by saying that as a newer member of the SJM fandom, this was my first time getting to live through the release of a new SJM novel in real time/on release day, and honestly I think participating in the hype and staying up until ridiculous hours to read absolutely added to the experience. I stayed up until 5am on release day just to finish this, and even though my sleep schedule still hasn’t recovered a week later, I don’t regret it in the slightest. 

 

On to the actual book—I don’t want to post any spoilers so this will be a pretty generic review, but I LOVED this one. It’s absolutely my favorite in the Crescent City series so far, and it solidified certain characters as all-time favorites for me. It also made me more emotional than any book I’ve ever read before, and I sobbed (real, gasping, ugly cry, fill-up-the-sea kind of sobs) for roughly an hour straight through the final 200 pages or so. 

 

If you’re not already reading SJM books, you should fix that! 

 

CW: Lots of violence/war/death/blood/injury/torture; sexual violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Torture, Violence, War, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

ariba17's review

adventurous challenging 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Physical abuse