Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

28 reviews

annikenr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Vomit, Violence, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Slavery

mrsalexisrjones's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Gore, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Violence, and War

Minor: Sexual content and Slavery

jessversteeg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

Even on the second read, I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Forced institutionalization, Death, Sexual assault, Grief, Body horror, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Confinement, Pregnancy, Vomit, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Child death

anguawolf's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Genocide, Sexual harassment, Gore, Blood, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Cannibalism, Self harm, Classism, Cursing, and Hate crime

Minor: Stalking

anndreya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Slavery, Miscarriage, Vomit, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Pregnancy

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, and War

notamouse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide attempt, Grief, Violence, Vomit, War, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Confinement, Infertility, Gore, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

annamary54's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

i will give a full review later, mostly gave it a 4.75 cause i didn’t care about the witches until the last quarter of the book

it’s later: 
honestly reading these back to back i can’t remember what was heir of fire and what was queen of shadows, but i’m gonna try my best. in the last one i struggled to care about the witches at all, and the first 3/4 i thought were very slow. this one definitely moved a lot faster from the beginning. i did start to care about the witches in this one, but like i said it took me until the last quarter to really care about that whole story line. all of the books before this one felt like exposition and this one actually had some action in it. i gave it such a high rating because i really was engaged and didn’t want to stop reading basically the whole time. (except the witch chapters, i’d usually use those as a stopping point)

I did NOT see adieon father reveal coming, but that spices stuff up for sure.

i also shouldn’t have read acotar before this cause now the romance is so pg to me, i’m like COME ON LETS GET TO IT, but whatever i’m still reading kicking my legs behind me and twirling my hair. it’s hard to write anything about this book cause so much happened, and so many story lines. loved the development in all the characters. and i’m excited to see more of the ones that haven’t fully bloomed.

VERY happy about the Lysandra redemption arc because i kinda loved her from the start…although i do have a problem loving villains. (arobynn…for a lil bit, and lorcan when he was still in bad guy mode)

overall, i rate based on how engaged i was with a book, and i was VERY engaged except the witch chapters for the first 3/4 of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gore, Body horror, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual content, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcohol, and Excrement

pagesandpixels's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

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

4.0

It was a journey to get here. I'm not sure we needed so many books but I will say that SJM can tell a story. It was long and sometimes frustrating because there were new characters and plot twists but it was fun and engaging. I can see the hype. This is not a spicy read and that's okay. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Torture, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Physical abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, War, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

infjkiki's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Gore, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

erafact's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Miscarriage and Death

Minor: Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Confinement, and Sexual content