Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

8 reviews

livvmarks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

5.0

The most beautiful perfect book ever- made me feel so seen in the mental health aspect as well. Can’t wait for the next one in the series<3

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Ableism, Addiction, Rape, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, War, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Slavery, Torture, and Vomit

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Eating disorder, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Sexism, and War

kenzieburns's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

3.0

There was a lot of sex in this book. Like, so much. But, the character development was much more detailed than in previous books in this series. I really appreciated the struggle that Nesta went through as she came to terms with her "new" status as Fae, accepting herself despite and even because of her faults and failures, and etc. I definitely started the book hating her, and ended with more acceptance for her character and path. As far as the plot, it definitely came second to Nesta's development, which was fine, it just felt very long and drawn out. Like, every couple of chapters we would get a plot development and ot was like "oh, right, there are other events happening". I really liked the heavy use of symbolism in the book, especially with things like the dark pit in the library, the stairs from the House of Wind to Velaris, the Valkyries, etc. My one gripe us that the author felt the the need to fully explain each instance of symbolism, which is nice because it takes the onus off the reader, but decreases the literary quality of the book. Although, with so much fairy sex, I guess there is a hard case for calling this literature, anyways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Genocide

vii_412's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

"So Nesta had become a wolf. Armed herself with invisible teeth and claws and learned to strike faster, deeper, more lethally. Had relished it. But when the time came to put away the wolf, she'd found it had devoured her, too."

Moría de ganas por leer este libro y aún no me creo que ya lo terminé, Nesta es mi personaje favorito y moría por ver cómo iba a ser su proceso de adaptación al mundo Fae.

Nesta es una persona rota y, a pesar de que sus amigos pensaban que dándole tiempo y espacio iba a ser de ayuda para su adaptación, ella necesitaba esa ayuda aunque no la quisiera. Una vez Feyre y los demás se dieron cuenta de lo lejos que fueron las acciones de Nesta, tomaron cartas en el asunto y la forzaron a recibir esa ayuda. A pesar de que al principio ponía las cosas complicadas para Cassian, poco a poco fue aceptando su situación y vamos viendo cómo esto le sirve para gestionar sus emociones. 

Si bien Nesta expresaba su enojo, conforme lo iba controlando íbamos conociendo más de ella, sus emociones, sus miedos, traumas y necesidades y porqué actuaba de esa forma. Pero también muestra mayor control sobre el poder que le robó al Cauldron y cómo esto iba a ser de ayuda para los conflictos que se estaban presentando para el reino Fae. Ese control que iba desarrollando gracias a los entrenamientos con Cassian, no sólo demostraron la fuerza de su poder, también la fuerza de su generosidad y su forma de amar a otros.
 
Hubieron muchas cosas que no esperaba en este libro y que quedaron perfecto con la personalidad de Nesta, sus nuevas amistades, acciones para ayudar a otros, el saber disculparse por el daño que había hecho y muchas muchas cosas más que no diré porque serían SPOILER.

NESSIAN!!!! Los extrañaba tanto, si bien Cassian es de gran apoyo para todo el proceso de curación de Nesta, conocimos un poquito más de él y su pasado, mostró a Nesta cosas que ella consideraba no merecía y le permitió sanar a su ritmo
 Tal vez al principio o de repente cometía errores, pero nunca hizo nada que impidiera a Nesta avanzar, y si daban un paso atrás, siempre encontraban la forma de dar dos adelante.

Me la pasé llorando, riendo y mordiendo mis uñas, me encantan estos personajes y sus historias, a pesar de que hubieron momentos en los que me hacían enojar, nunca los dejaría de querer, su lazo, su unión, lo que los hace una familia es lo que amo de estos libros. Muero por leer más de Gwyn y Emerie, las Valkirias y cómo está nueva guerra va a avanzar. Por supuesto también se me acaba la paciencia por leer sobre Elain, Lucien y Az, qué pasará con esa tensión que siempre se percibe ahí 😪😪

"The first time I saw that look on your face,you were still human. Still human, and I nearly went to my knees before you." [...] "Your power is a song, and one I've waited a very, very long time to hear, Nesta."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Torture, Cursing, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Child death, and Medical trauma

Feyre y Rhys having a child was so beautiful, but I hated the process of it, it was so hurtful and sad and i hated it, but i loved how it all ended 🥲

cdoubet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Alcohol, Child abuse, Classism, Genocide, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

adibasultana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

2.5

I like the adventure and the portrayal of Nesta’s mental health but this was so hard to read because it was so annoying 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death of parent, Death, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Grief, Blood, Alcohol, Addiction, War, Rape, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, and Torture

Minor: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

ripxw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Genocide, Rape, Domestic abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Child death

decklededgess's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

trigger warnings: sexual assault, rape, physical assault, war, PTSD, physical disfigurement and mutilation, abusive family, sexism and misogyny, sex and nudity, alcoholism, pregnancy complications, birth complications, emotional abuse, depression, anxiety

me a sjm in a deep south accent: i can’t quit you 

anyways this book is proof sjm books wouldn’t be getting so much shit for being “toxic” if they were simply categorised as adult and new adult like they should have been since like throne of glass. 

all the queer baiting/lack of diversity/insensitive oversight on ableism/lack of diverse bodies etc all of that stands. in fact in this one she regressed and i honestly thought she forgot mor was selectively lesbian from acowar. 

anyways. there are better books to read but these would be easier to ignore if teens weren’t reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Body shaming, Genocide, Incest, Miscarriage, Slavery, and Torture