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kermjordan's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Colonisation, Miscarriage, Death, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Genocide, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Slavery, Child abuse, Medical trauma, War, Vomit, Death, Suicide, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Drug use, Child death, Cursing, and Sexual assault
reasek's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Child abuse
Moderate: War, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Sexual violence
Minor: Vomit
angstifies's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Suicide, Torture, Child abuse, Grief, and Slavery
Minor: Blood, War, Kidnapping, Vomit, Confinement, and Pregnancy
ninaevan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.75
My scoring:
5 | =everyone in the world must read this book
4.75 | =between 4.5 and 5
4.5 | =dessert island book
4.25 | =between 4 and 4.5
4 | =great, solid, reccomendable book
3.75 | =may not be a 4, but I had a good time
3.5 | = rough patches but not bad
3.25 | =between 3 and 3.5
3 | =meh
2 | =not good
1 | =bad
Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, and War
Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, and Suicide
Minor: Pregnancy, Torture, and Slavery
julia87's review against another edition
- 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
For starters, it was super fast past and kept me super engaged. The plot was great, the only criticism I have is that the first 100 or so pages were a tad boring <sort of spoiler> things got infinitely better when Rowan came back in.
This was hands down the best book I’m the Throne of Glass Series so far. I will 100% be continuing on this book was absolutely amazing. I would highly suggest it!
Graphic: Child abuse and Confinement
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Slavery, and Vomit
bethy_joy's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Murder and Violence
Moderate: Slavery, Miscarriage, Torture, Sexual assault, Confinement, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Blood
Minor: Vomit
veeronald's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Aelin reaches an all-time goody two shoes standard of Mary Sueness and awkward dialogue in this novel where so much of the action happens after the fact and the characters can't stop farting out awful, cringe-worthy one-liners.
It's honestly insulting how much the book is absorbed with how *amazing* Aelin is, and gives the bare minimum psychological processing to enslavement and war and the fallout of living through it all. I get it, Maas doesn't want to talk about it because she just wants to show how powerful and generous Aelin is, and how attractive (?) Rowan is. But it's a book about war. Make it about war, please. Anything else is insulting.
And should I even get into (again) how hypocritical this book is? Aelin (and the tone of the book) makes a big statement about who can be forgiven for being enslaved, and then goes ahead and blames someone for being enslaved because she never liked them. Yet again, the book presents a certain argument about inclusion or forgiveness or hope, but then only offers that to a select group of Maas' choosing. (I'm being vague for spoilers). Don't promote one thing and the in the very fabric of your book fail to do that very thing that the characters become so high and mighty about. The same thing happened in ACOTAR.
I'm tired of these half-assed books.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, and Slavery
Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, and Violence
tiredtori's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Gore, Torture, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, War, Confinement, Death, Vomit, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Ableism, Grief, Miscarriage, Child death, Trafficking, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Bullying, Cannibalism, and Child abuse