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Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

21 reviews

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Body horror, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Xenophobia

Minor: Colonisation, Genocide, Sexual content, Vomit, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, War, Child death, Deportation, Trafficking, Hate crime, Misogyny, and Rape

mollydollydoodah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.25

I will forever love the badass female characters that Sarah J Maas creates and expresses in her novels. Celaena is such a honed weapon, and it is so cool to read the way that she works.

I absolutely loved the romance arc with Chaol, and it was my favorite thing out of this entire book. From them both trying and failing to stay on their sides of the ‘line’ Chaol drew for himself, to their cute hangouts & runs, to the birthday scene on the rooftop, I positively ate that shit up. When she turned on him after poor Nehemia’s demise, my heart broke, and it positively shattered at Chaol’s realization that nothing was ever going to be the same. I’m so happy that they’ve reconciled a little, but my heart was so full & happy when Chaol was describing her as his future wife like ughhhhhh why couldn’t we have just kept that going… I have to say I love Fleetfoot, she is so cute! And Mort, lol. How is the king so trusting?! Dummy. I’m interested in seeing how this whole magic thing goes for Dorian, and I’m so happy the three of them have had some good(?) trio scenes again that will hopefully improve and reoccur throughout the series. Anyways, I’m not prepared to watch everything fall to shit & burn, so hopefully all the other books just detail Celaena jumping off that ship, swimming back to Chaol, & them running away together to experience a million cute lovey adventures with no pain, suffering, or heartbreak. Of course, the lands & magic would just *poof* be saved before hand, but then it’ll just be lovey-dovey, right?! I unfortunately was spoiled for the grand reveal at the end, but I am very interested in seeing how this all plays out.

I really enjoyed it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Slavery, Blood, Gore, Violence, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

cdoubet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Grief, Murder, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Hate crime, Torture, Self harm, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit and War

the_teen_bookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I finished the first book in the Throne of Glass series in July, and it instantly became one of my top reads ever! I bought Crown of Midnight as soon as possible, but didn't really have high hopes for it, and ended up procrastinating reading it. I finaly did, and honestly? It was better than the first one. The plot twists were amazing and blew my mind and the romance between Chaol and Celaena was perfect (while it lasted 😕). 
The writing is elite (I totally thought Chaol would run AWAY, not go through the portal!). 
10/10 recommend, I only removed 0.5 stars because I wanted Chaolaena to last (lmao) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Stalking

kayolay'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Blood, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Torture, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Sexism

Minor: Vomit

inkshadows's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Good character development. The ending was a cliffhanger but I still felt like the main premise of this portion of the plot was resolved. The book felt complete.

The different character POVs drove the story along in an interesting way, adding depth and complexity to the narrative.

I do wish there was more world building, but as the ending suggests, we’ll see more of that in the next book.

I appreciate the mix of platonic and love relationships. It gave the story more life and made the characters more real. It didn’t feel explicitly romance driven.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

prettylightsandcitynights's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Suicide, Violence, Confinement, Colonisation, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Torture, and Vomit

midnightmermaid'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Cursing

Minor: Vomit

sandra_matute's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

Sigo amando esta saga y los personajes me hacen pasar por todas las emociones LITERALMENTE.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Colonisation, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and War

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, and Vomit

racheleanne06's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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 enjoyed the slow world building of the first half of the book, but I absolutely loved all the twists and turns of the second half. Although I did know the major twist at the end (thanks to this book series so popular for years) it didn’t take away from the details (which I didn’t know about). The last 20% of this book had my heart racing! It’s going to take me a while to recover from this...!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Misogyny, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Vomit