Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

38 reviews

jesus_wept's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

dont_look_now's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Blood

jmeier's review against another edition

1.5

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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the protagonist is incredibly unlikeable. the other characters are poorly fleshed out, and the plot is absurd.

3/4 of the way through this incredibly slow beauty and the beast adaptation, there's suddenly a hunger games plot? completely bizarre shift. We are also supposed to empathize with a character who threatens sexual assault, and to forgive the torture and murder of a bunch of innocents for the "greater good" . the greater good being the protagonist getting to have sex. 

sex scenes were a bit silly, but still somewhat stirring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping

pageafter_paige's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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This was a reread :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

ktmcd26's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Took me a while to actually pick up this book after hearing about it for so long on Booktok, and I am happy to report that I was not disappointed.

This beauty and the beast re-telling adds a few extra layers, so as not to be the same exact story in a different setting. I was excited every night to pick up the book and see where the pieces all fit together.

The world was interesting and while I do still have questions that I hope will be answered in the next books, I still thought it was well fleshed out. While definitely setting up the next set of books in the series, I feel as though you could just read this one and have a satisfied ending to the story. 

The main character Feyre was compelling. She was strong willed and opinionated, but not in an unrealistic way. Embarrassment, fear, and shame also played a part in her story. However, I really hate the fact that she is nineteen. She feels like a pawn so frequently throughout the book, and I feel if she had another 10 - 15 years on her she wouldn’t have been at such a disadvantage when interacting with the fae. Yes I understand math wise the age difference to the faerie men is insignificant. But no human has ever lived multiple centuries, so they so they read as 30-40 year olds anyway and that math makes a huge difference. 

My main complaint of the book is how her and Tamlin fall in love. The power em balance is just too great and her age only highlights the differences. She falls in love with him based on lies, his ability to provide, and his looks. He reveals nothing of his inner thoughts or belief, so there is no demonstration of a deep intellectual and emotional connection. It is all based on what they can get from each other that they can’t get from others. To me this suggests it was not meant to last.

The other element that I don’t enjoy about this book is everything related to the real villain of the book feels very contrived and rushed. She was supposed to be exceedingly clever, but that is never demonstrated. Her big riddle at the end was painfully obvious. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

zc2's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional lighthearted tense 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: Yes

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Ok listen… I didn’t think I would like it imma be honest. Howeva once I got to the plot 👀. I finished the book in 2 days however I’m curious as to why Tamlin is referred to as “tampon” on booktok. I’m scared to read the next one. Although intrigued. Smut not good don’t recommend😐.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation

saskiajva's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

nemyp's review against another edition

0.25

slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment

Minor: Racism

smoothwoven's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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This is a romance-fantasy novel, as supposed to a fantasy novel with romance. If you subscribe to the "Beauty & the Beast is hella problematic" ethos, this story is not for you....or for me as it turns out. Barf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Gaslighting

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I love Lucien first off, best character of the entire series. The sass and the red hair is just a plus. He’s so selfless. I love him way too much. And I love Rhysand , he’s sassy and brutally honest. Plus he sounds incredibly hot. Tamlin is great ofc, love that blond boy

Edit: This was before I read the second book!!!

Screw Tamlin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Classism