Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

11 reviews

thebooksanctum's review

adventurous lighthearted 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? No

4.0

There were a few too many characters in this one to properly follow what was going on at times, but still a good start to a new Shadowhunters run!
And, for once, a Herondale didn't annoy me, which has never happened with these books, so that was a major plus!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Child death, Alcoholism, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Addiction, Death, Medical content, Grief, Violence, Blood, and Murder

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

cait's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

Minor: Gaslighting, Stalking, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Biphobia, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Homophobia, and War

aklovekorn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Grief

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Sexual content and Alcoholism

jackeline_cruz_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

green_amaryllis's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Death

Minor: Miscarriage

andrikkk's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Deadnaming, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Body horror

fromjuliereads's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

While I was a little confused at first because there are so many characters, I now want to protect these characters? Like fiercely. Especially Christopher and Matthew! And I adore Cordelia and Lucie and their badass female friendship and strength! Cannot wait to see where this goes next!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Violence

humanmosquito's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

0.25

Once again Clare delivers a decent concept with sloppy execution. 

To no one's surprise, a book that started with two solid chapters of casual racism and awkward exposition dump was terrible. 
It suffered heavily from the usual Clareisms. (Such as comma splicing, overwritten descriptions weighing down scenes, flat protagonists, kissing scenes in place of actual romantic chemistry and cartoonishly ridiculous antagonists to name a few)

This book felt like Downton Abbey meets Bridgerton, an apt comparison given that the book manages to trot out almost every tired period drama cliche by chapter 5.

As is typical of The Shadowhunter Chronicles, the minor characters were genuinely interesting but never afforded enough page time. Some of the book’s 800 pages should have been spent on characters like Alastair Carstairs, whose coloured past the reader is constantly reminded of but never elaborated on; or the Lightwood cousins, specifically Anna and Thomas, the only ones with love interests.  (This <i>is</i> a romance novel.)

At the two-thirds point I began to skip Cordelia and James' POV chapters as they completely lost anything compelling they'd had in the beginning. 

So many plot details, character attributes and similar were informed rather than shown. Sometimes Cassandra Clare books feel like being forced to read a twitter thread of obvious misinformation but no one around you notices or cares. This is one of those times. Overall, it was unenjoyable but with a concept I would otherwise have been excited about (<i>Great Expectations</i> in the way of <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</i>)

Random things that ticked me off in this book:  (equal parts nitpick and criticism)
CoRsETS aRe EvIL and other tired clichés (corsets within <i>The Last Hours</i> render the poor women who wear unable to eat or breathe, yet shadowhunter women continue to not only wear them but train and fight demons whilst doing so.)
The lack of any kind of research into this era. (Edwardian)
That fact that Shadowhunters have a fucking social season? And it’s in London?  Not the Shadowhunter country. (*shrek meme* They don’t even have a monarchy)
Being closeted, for the book’s three closeted queer characters, is framed as lying and as morally wrong despite it being 1903. This is also despite the society of the book being rife with casual queerphobia. 
‘Brown girls can’t wear pastel’ every other chapter (It’s a fucking plot point).
No respect is paid to a character’s (Anna Lightwood) Word of God genderqueerness (but given that the writer made one post about it on her Tumblr six years ago, I’m not at all surprised.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Racism