Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

70 reviews

melishahigdon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

It took me forever to read this, first of all, because of finals and graduation season, but I made it (barely) and I'm here (maybe).

This dang book, y'all... I seriously have no words. I want to scream and shout and let it all out when I figure out what "it" is. This book made me feel all the feels; I felt bipolar for a minute because of how quickly the emotions were coming and how intense everything was. I was hooked for all 624 pages of this book, but I am going to need to recover from this experience. I need some time hahaha.

On a real note, because this book was pretty much spoiled for me on TikTok and such, I had an interesting reading experience. I was able to see the hints of where the story was going, which were so well-crafted. For example, in the beginning of the book when Feyre is pretty much dying at the Spring Court and symbolically flying free in the Night Court. Maas did so well in making the reader hate Tamlin like Feyre did and despise the smell of him in the end like she did. I was completely floored by this experience. Going to read/finish a couple more books before picking up ACOWAR.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Cursing, War, Vomit, and Torture

a_libra_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

Much better than book one, world building, characters, tropes and plot twists were better fleshed out.
Still not ground breaking in 2022 and still not faire porn.  

If  I have to read 55 chapters for 10 pages of barely smut, its just a normal fantasy romance, I wanted more about the war, the wall, the magic system and feyre's father dying and sisters getting engaged and turned into fae themsevles.

It's mostly  fantasy romance  that's easy to digest and annotate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Abandonment, Body horror, Colonisation, Cursing, Vomit, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Violence, War, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

anapthine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abandonment and Body horror

roosveld's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Vomit, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

egurgens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

Okay, I’m my ACOTSR review I didn’t have the full scope of Tamlin or Rhys: I now completely agree with the general public opinion. Tamlin is just such

a gaslighting, controlling bastard!!!  And to think that Feyre would willingly stay with him when he continues to trap her, control her, and smother her until she’s caving in on herself!? Ugh. Such a bastard. <spoiler/> now, Rhysand on the other hand: is such a sweet, damaged baby. When Tamlin failed to recognize that Feyre had severe PTSD from the experience, Rhys did, and he’s the one that took steps to help her heal from that. Tamlin just ignored it, saying that he was dealing with his own shit. Well guess what, Rhys has 50x more trauma from the experience than Tamlin, so he actually understands what Feyre is going to though.

And then he wonders why Feyre ends up with Rhys. Smh. <spoiler\>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Torture

Moderate: Stalking, Slavery, Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Hate crime

sandbox's review against another edition

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

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Violence, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Vomit

lelyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, War, Toxic relationship, Torture, Murder, and Abandonment

niinabulic's review against another edition

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

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Death, Cursing, Child death, Child abuse, Blood, Alcohol, and Abandonment

bisquii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

3 stars for quality, but 5 for escapism fantasy. Great book to just read and not think

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

The tags in ‘Moderate’ are because the events from the first book

Under the Mountain

are referenced and the characters trauma from it is addressed

campisforever's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This book is a stellar depiction of what it means to break, to be broken, to become different, and to learn to be loved in the midst of it. Of self actualization and growth. Of growing apart, growing together, and loving someone in a way that lets them have agency. At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be tugged in another direction from the first book, but it worked so beautifully and hit many affective beats that I needed for it to work. It’s beautiful and I love it. 

For gender nonconforming readers: the text uses “fe/male” as terms frequently enough to be annoying for me, and I expect to cause concern if that kind of language is squicky or triggering. It’s sometimes used where it doesn’t have to be as adjectival shorthand, but most often it’s a mechanism for differentiating between faeries (the way “man” and “woman” operate for humans in the text). 

As for the sex scenes:

They were… fine, I guess. I understood them as walking a fine line between what’s acceptable in mainstream publishing and what might not be, so they alternate between vague and vaguely explicit, and are rather short. The mechanics of the sex are… interesting, for lack of a better term, in part because there’s a lot of heteronormative/heterosexual shorthand that allows for “vaguely explicit.” Good on Maas for calling a cock a cock, but I’ve read better and hotter scenes in fanfiction (and queer romance, for that matter, because it doesn’t/can’t depend on the same kinds of shorthand). People are very into Chapter 55 but I didn’t find it that mindblowing and there were some turns of phrase within that I raised an eyebrow at. Spicier scenes than ACoTaR for sure, which I liked, but I didn’t find that they lived up to the hype.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War