Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

199 reviews

dobermaier's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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? No

3.0

Fun! It was cute. Definitely reads for a younger audience than some of her other works, but I expected that - she wrote this as a teen, after all. It was fun to see the seeds of certain ideas/worldbuilding things that come up in later works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Slavery, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Misogyny, Sexism, Vomit, and Death of parent

knottygeek's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nnylelocin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ernis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

4.75

This was an intriguing fantasy adventure tale. I appreciated the fact that though it was about an assassin, there wasn't tons of gore. The fantasy aspect was subtle but used well. Compared to Sarah J Maas' ACOTAR series, this novel was more geared towards teens with a PG rated story (ACOTAR being more suitable for young adults). While both series have their own flavour, I have so far enjoyed this one more.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

The pacing started out slow but did get faster as the story went on. I have mixed feelings about some of the main characters, but I think they’ll grow on me. I also predicted one of the plot points early on in relation to the tournament and players being eliminated. Still it was fun to see how that plot point was revealed.

Was a decent book for the first in a series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

liesthemoontells's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

A solid fantasy debut that is mainly consistent with its worldbuilding, although some of the characters' choices feel inconsistent.

Does a great job of introducing its characters and setting the scene for the saga ahead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Slavery and War

Minor: Animal death

noetical's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

aj9moon's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Murder

ladypalutena's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.75

I tried to read this book a few years ago, and got maybe 3 chapters in before I gave up. And now I'm not too sure why I gave up on it then - maybe I wasn't in the mood for the type of story it was going to tell. 

Is this book ground-breaking? No. A teen who, by all rights, should never have gotten to where they are in life is the "chosen one" picked up by a plucky crown prince and made to fight a ton of grown men to win the right to become an official assassin. 

To which I say,

obviously the king has issues, and most likely he wasn't even looking for an assassin to begin with, and I'm not too sure if this whole thing wasn't just a plot to pull our main character, Celaena, back into the open.

The biggest issue I found is that I never felt afraid for Celaena at any point. She is proven over and over again, in every situation, that she is better than everyone else. She's not only beautiful, but she's deadlier than everyone, and oh by the way, did you know she's only 18?

It is also so painfully obvious where this book is going to go. There's a weak attempt at misdirection with Celaena believing that one specific person is the champion-murderer, which made me roll my eyes. Maas all but crams it down your throat early on, and then dances around the lumpy blanket on the ground just to whip off the cover late in the book and go "Surprise!" But by then, it's not a surprise and the real villain has been super obvious for way too long. 

The world is interesting, and while our MC Celaena can be thorny at times, she's an assassin and this is the only way she knows she can't be hurt. 

So far, so good. I'm interested in where this is going to lead, and even more interested in how I'm going to juggle my Libby holds for this series when every one of them has a vastly different wait time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, and War

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

trislima's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, and Classism