Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

315 reviews

snakano94's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Abandonment

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, War

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit

annarorie's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional fast-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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If you aren’t much of a reader but want to get into it, this is a great book to start with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War

faymish's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Classism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

emilywemily6's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book was fine. It honestly felt pretty bland as far as the plot and characters went. The ending with Feyre under the mountain was pretty interesting though! I just had a hard time connecting to and rooting for Feyre, she isn’t the most likable character. We’ll see how I like the rest of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Racism, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment

whimsyforestfairy's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book will always hold a special place in my heart as the beginning of my love for reading. It roped me in and I remember absolutely loving it at the time. It isn’t my favourite of the ACOTAR series but it is a sentimental one for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder

skeletor23's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Book really drags in the beginning to give too much world exposition before we even have the chance to care, surrounds main character by a family of near irredeemable characters that makes reader question why it spends so much time on them in the beginning, and repeats formulaic sequence of main character outright being stupid and putting self into harms way by doing the opposite of advice given, having to be rescued time and time again in drawn out false climaxes. That being said, the book redeems itself in the 3rd quarter, building on characters, creative action sequences, romance, and straight up gore and tragedy into resolution to make us feel something for an initially dull and annoyingly dumb main character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism

book spends so much time focusing and building on a main love interest (Tamlin) that it basically character assassinates them at the end by having him do literally nothing and say nothing to help save the main character-who is literally going through a prolonged gauntlet of death and torture to free him out of love- from being brutally beaten and mentally broken and eventually horrifically and slowly killed in front of him. Feels like a massive waste of his character and readers time, and is frustrating to the reader.

luna_butterfly's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Not bad, but not amazing as BookTok lead me to believe. I had low expectations just because I am wary of BookTok, but I think that allowed me to enjoy it more than I think I would thinking this book was going to be life changing for me. Feyre is somewhat tolerable and Tamlin, I don't get him he's just plain awful. I mean mister Rhysand is better, but not by a lot. Lucien is my MVP for this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Sexism, Xenophobia, War

Minor: Slavery, Vomit

nifty_'s review against another edition

1.25

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This book is glamorized fairy porn, which is fine if that's what you're into. There are also the issues of the abuse-turned-romance in the second book and the cheesy ending. If you're into that stuff, go for it! I just very much am not

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment

dawnofdusk's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence

va_nessa's review against another edition

2.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I wanted to DNF it at least five times because it had me cringing so hard.  I’m surprised I made it through. There’s no real plot-twists, you can basically expect most of what will happen next. I can’t really say why there’s such a hype about the book, I found it rather dull. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment