455 reviews for:

The Rose and the Thorn

Michael J. Sullivan

4.26 AVERAGE

mreme's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

drstephm's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters: No

mathoctopus314's review against another edition

4.5

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The connections to the original trilogy- holy cow- I love it

sshpurple1's review

4.75

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

stephs_stuff's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

jmcunningham71's review against another edition

5.0

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Good stuff!

bfls's review against another edition

3.0

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I'm being slightly stingy with this rating. The story was grimmer than I remember this series as being. Not a bad thing, just unexpected. Added to that was I have read the first series so I know who are the bad guys who are plotting to kill the king, but I've forgotten. Very annoying. The fault of my memory, not of the book, but I still didn't enjoy this as much as the first.

vkadic's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A fun adventure. Royce and Hadrian are fun as always but so are the supporting characters. The story starts of slow but everything does come together nicely. Would not recommend reading Viscount and the Witch as a standalone before this one though since it is literally a part of this book which I did not know.

comadivine11's review against another edition

4.0

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Another thoroughly enjoyable book from Mr. Sullivan. On to Death of Dulgath!

travkeltracy's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes