Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

94 reviews

jessversteeg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

It’s still as good the second time around!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Slavery

ejreadz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Trafficking, Slavery, War, Confinement, Genocide, Suicide, Grief, and Stalking

Minor: Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Excrement, Self harm, Vomit, Death of parent, and Child death

merrow's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

A good sequel that expands upon the characters and situations. It does have the common struggle with direction I feel many second books have where it has to turn an initial closed premise into a big expansive story line but it handles it well. The monsters are effectively creepy and the king successfully and compellingly evil, but the ending twist does feel slightly contradictory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Death, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Torture, Colonisation, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Slavery

itsaas_r's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

amandafitz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Blood, Animal cruelty, Violence, Genocide, War, Vomit, Classism, Sexual assault, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Confinement

emsavors'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Kidnapping, Body horror, Misogyny, Classism, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Blood, Confinement, Death, Trafficking, Sexual content, Slavery, Stalking, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Vomit, Xenophobia, War, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence

kmoyer07's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Suicide attempt, Slavery, Rape, Torture, and Death of parent

deshane's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Great female lead

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Abortion, Violence, Death, War, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

oxfordcommas91's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

While “Throne of Glass” was a bit slow,  this book upped the ante and the action in a satisfying way. I’m definitely curious for how the rest of the series will unfold so I’m committed to continuing the journey of Celeana as she learns about her heritage, and fights for the kingdom and freedom of the people against the tyranny of the king. I enjoyed getting a deeper look at Chaol and Dorian through their POV chapters, which Maas excels at. I generally don’t think the writing is super sophisticated, but the stories pull me in every time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Violence, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Slavery, Death of parent, and Blood

lizzelovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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

This book is basically Chaol making every wrong decision possible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Gore