Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

48 reviews

faduma's review against another edition

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

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body horror, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, War, Emotional abuse, and Colonisation

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Slavery, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Death, and Murder

vainnerj's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

I found the first half of the book to be a bit slow (honestly a very common theme to SJM's books) but I enjoy the characters enough that I couldn't put it down, and then like many of her other works everything quickly started to devolve. Looking forward to the next! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Body horror

ana_maria5's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Murder, and Violence

sierrabowers's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I liked this book more than the first (Throne of Glass). It had a more in-depth and complicated plot, but it was very confusing to me. Even in the end, when I found out

Celaena was really Aelin

. I feel like I need to re-read this book to fully understand it (I’m not going to). I did like the twist at the end revealing that

Archer was actually behind it all

. I also thought that this book was more interesting because there was more magic. It reminded me more of ACOTAR. Overall, it was good, just confusing and I need a bit more clarification when it comes to heavy plots. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Classism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Slavery, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Violence, and War

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

boba_n_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I truly enjoyed the second installment of the Throne of Glass series. A great continuation of the first book yet even more intriguing. I’m excited to see where it goes from here!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror

Why didn’t I know about these books when they came out?! Teenage me would’ve eaten them up.

sydneyluxford's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Did I understand a single thing that happened in this book? No. Did I enjoy every second of it? Yes.

That ending was so predictable. If 1+1=2, then of course Celaena is Aelin… Idk why Chaol reacted like that at the end tbh.

Also, speaking of Chaol, his and Celaena’s romance felt so forced. I much preferred her with Dorian (please give him another chance 😪). Their relationship just felt like another plot device that was created to keep the story ‘interesting.’ Did I still eat up their scenes together? Of course I bloody did. 

All those things about the Wyrdkeys went straight over my fat head. I have no clue what’s going on but I loved it. I rated it lower than TOG because I didn’t enjoy it as much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Gore, Murder, Sexism, Blood, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Cursing

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Torture, Slavery, Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Death, and Gore

jlfaith21's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

I loved this sequel to the first book and so excited to start the third! It was such a journey watching Celaena learn more about herself and go through her struggles, but the twist at the end has me looking forward to the rest of her story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence