Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

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

30 reviews

caligula1241's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Confinement

kerrierbest's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal death, and Slavery

bethy_joy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Torture

tyrannosaurus_lex's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Vomit, Sexual content, Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Gore

Minor: Death of parent, Cursing, War, Toxic friendship, Classism, and Abandonment

louisa_pennyfeather2021's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I have never been more grateful for a book for the lone purpose of the protagonist being 19. She was realistic in how she viewed the world without being obnoxious or helpless to fate. I appreciate her for this.

<spoilers>I'd also like to say I'm proud of myself for figuring out the answer to the riddle quite quickly. It was easy because of the common themes in the book and how the Antagonist centered all of her actions around one thing. Riddles often have simple answers. The writing and foreshadowing in the first three quarters of the book really helped to make the answer obvious to the reader(in my opinion).<spoilers>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Torture

Minor: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal death

egurgens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I’ve owned the whole series for over a year now, but I never read them until now I’ve heard such good things about it on BookTok, maybe I was just afraid to be disappointed. I was not. 

I’ve heard a few things about the characters, so I was surprised that I disliked Rhys up until the last few chapters, and I greatly enjoyed Tamlin. There is a slight ‘Beauty and the Beast’ aspect, in the hidden curse, but this is so much darker and sexier than that story could ever be. Torture, death, loss, challenges, sacrifices, this book has it all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Murder, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, War, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Death of parent

bisquii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

3 for quality but 5 for a solid escapism fantasy! No think, just fantasy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

This book is crazy dark towards the end. There’s a lot to process and a long period of Horrible Things and Situations Specifically Designed To Be Impossible that make the MC rightfully distressed and it can get hard to read through at points. (This part gets extra Problematic so to keep the Escapism™️ just ignore the “I have to assault you for your own good” and enjoy the trip to ‘Of Course These Are Green Flags What Are You Talking About’ city.

amyhamilton's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

lillythebluepaladin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

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

1.0

I am honestly disappointed.
ALSO I WAS TOLD THIS WAS A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, but the sex and the violence and the toxic relationships (platonic and romantic and sexual) really beg to differ.
I really wanted to like this book, with its beautiful cover and chapter page art, but I was just annoyed in all of the characters throughout the entire thing (I did really like Lucien tho).
The villain was a bit too much of a classical Disney villain.  “HAHA I HAD YOU FOOLED ALL ALONG YOU PITIFUL HUMAN”, she says while twirling her evil moustache.

I really like how some of the violence was written, and believe that the universe and the book itself would have worked a lot better if it didn’t go all in on the “romance”, I am so sorry but are the straights okay??? and went from a Beauty And The Best retelling to a tale of a woman fighting for her life against an evil far overlord.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Trafficking, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexual harassment, Violence, War, Body horror, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Murder, Toxic friendship, Slavery, and Toxic relationship

scarlettx's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Slavery, Toxic friendship, and Violence