Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

A Court of Thorns and Roses (Parts 1 & 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] by Sarah J. Maas

121 reviews

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Grief, Torture, Body horror, Murder, Gore, Slavery, Animal death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Minor: Terminal illness, Child death, Cursing, Vomit, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and War

tabea1409's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Alcohol, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Gore, Animal death, Violence, Vomit, Genocide, and Grief

nix_87's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, Death, Vomit, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Torture, Blood, Physical abuse, Murder, Grief, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Bullying, and War

Minor: Torture, Death, and Blood

miwandie's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.0

Feyre is a little bit of a pick me but we love her for that. Lucien is my little angel and I would kill for him, the rat bastard. 

Some of the word choices and descriptions were a bit immature and YA, but not too distracting that it ruined the read. Just a lil cringe at times. The world and creature building was fantastic. 

I recommended to my boyfriend who is much more well-versed in fantasy stories, which says a lot in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Vomit, War, Alcohol, Colonisation, Cursing, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Violence

jnterhune's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring 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

Wow! This book is so good and I can not stop thinking about it. I will admit it starts very slow and was hard to get through the first few chapters, but once it hits it’s fast on throughout. I can not get over this story, I’m someone to always see plots and this one kept me focused and unable to guess and see what would come. It is one of the longest books I’ve read and I wouldn’t even have noticed the difference cause it keeps my attention so well. I highly recommend stayed up till 2am reading one night, second one is just as good so far. Love it and is in my top three all favorite books. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and War

Minor: Confinement, Sexual content, Slavery, Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Just amazing I can not stop thinking of these plots. Is amazing to read with a friend to talk about the shocks and turns of this story line. Keeps interest is just so good I can not stop thinking about it or put it down

ekcd_'s review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.0

This is a very mixed review - I started it as a hate read, so I could properly roast it. But I wound up devouring the book, really. It is essentially beauty and the beast meets twilight, with a double scoop of toxic relationships on top. 

The MC is incredibly bland and at first none of the plot or relationships made any sense. I had a LOT of eye rolling and it wasn't until the end that I realized that MC is bland for a REASON. Having  a blank canvas character allows the reader to project themselves into the story more easily...which is probably why people like it so much. Yearning, romance, sex - its all much more fun when you can imagine your self as the recipient. 

And for that the book did its job. Its a wonderful YA y/n self insert self indulgent book. The spice level is pretty low - the 1.5 scenes were short, laced with metaphors and not particularly racy. But I come from the land AO3. 

The plot was kind of weird, especially the last third with the trials. It seems the second and third books are better BUT i will not be reading them because there are more compelling love stories with muh better sex, slow burn and enemies to lovers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Slavery, Terminal illness, Vomit, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Body horror, Blood, Toxic relationship, Genocide, Murder, Rape, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Chronic illness

nlosievski's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence, Racism, Murder, Torture, Alcohol, Death, Confinement, and Blood

Minor: Slavery, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, War, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Cursing, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Genocide, and Classism

spazzcats's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Animal death, Blood, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Cursing and Death of parent

luna_lovelace's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

The beginning of the book is such a bore, it feels like nothing is going on and

when you find out everything was based on a lie it feels like you also wasted your time reading the beginning.

I love Feyre, she's brave and doesn't shy away when things get tough. Tamlin is another story. I can't believe he

ignored her so much during the trials. I get that he probably did it to not bring any attention to her and therefore have her suffer more but he didn't even try to save her at the end when Amarantha was killing her. 

As a matter of fact, Rhysand did try to stop Amarantha.

Rhysand surprised me, I think he got the most character development and I hope we get to see more of him in the next book.

He saved her so many times during the trials, the reading one being the most memorable to me. I didn't expect him to help, on the contrary, I thought he would make Feyre's life harder.

He probably saved this book for me too and bumped it up to another star rating because the story got more interesting with his continuous involvement. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Murder, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Alcohol, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content and War

k_l_smith's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Cursing