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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

45 reviews

sarahfr1end's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Death of parent

floweratmyfeet's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

jen1804's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Feb 2022: 4.5⭐️
A great first book of this series setting up the characters and the realms.
The book is a little beauty and the beast, a little game of thrones, a little twilight and a little Harry Potter all rolled into one. 
There were times when the story actually gave me goosebumps whilst reading it and I enjoyed the story arc.
Some really great character development, with a strong female MC and some strong male characters I’m looking forward to seeing more of, but there’s also some not so great character development (Tamlin). 
I am excited to see how the series progresses in the next book.
Satisfactory ending? Yes.

Nov 2023 re-read: 4.5⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

Minor: Emotional abuse

egurgens's review against another edition

5.0

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

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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

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

very_offkey_kazoo's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous emotional relaxing tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I felt like the plot didn’t appear until the last 75-100 pages. The first few hundred were just hot beings glaring at each other and not talking about things.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Racism, Blood, Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment