Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

33 reviews

doggonebookaddict's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Probably my least favorite in the series so far, but I am curious to see how the fifth book comes into play considering it takes place at (mostly I think?) the same time as this one. I didn’t love how some of the chapters had a vague description of who you were following instead of the actual character’s name - most of the time it was easy to figure out who they were fairly quickly but not always. As per usual, I really loved the audiobook narration!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Torture

Minor: Gore, Incest, Rape

juliettesbooks's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, War

izziebambino's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The pace was so slow. It did not feel like anything happened. Introduced characters I did not care for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sebeth76's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny sad tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, War

clairebartholomew549's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book bears very little resemblance to the show, and I loved it. It's a little bit hard to follow, and there are a lot of minor characters that feel like they either don't make much of a difference to the plot or will never be important again, but the world expansion is really satisfying, and there's lots of character growth that feels earned and interesting. I appreciated how much the book highlighted that although the power players may have thought the war was over, the commonfolk knew better. This series continues to be brutal (although this is definitely not as dark of a book as the third book), and I continue to enjoy it immensely!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

thedistortionist's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War

Moderate: Incest, Rape, Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Physical abuse

dreadspawn's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Child death, Incest

avazee's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kingcrookback's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-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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Perhaps my favorite book in this series thus far? It didn't escape my notice that for all the Song of Ice and Fire series (and all its related works and franchises) is generalized as brutal, hypermasculine grimdark fantasy, and though there is cause for that, there's more nuance to GRRM's writing than I think people might be willing to admit, and I think AFFC is where a lot of that nuance is to be found. To be sure, that's a lot (a lot) to criticize about GRRM - his portrayal of women and non-"white" characters/cultures being no small part of it. That said, the POV characters in this book are generally non-conventional: they're women, they're young girls, they're disabled - they're all perspectives that contribute significant fuel to doubt this whole series casts on patriarchal feudalism, on the romanticization of might and primogeniture. George, finish the damn series, I need to know where it all goes.

Also, shout out to Jaime Lannister. Never thought this dude would cement himself as one of my favorite characters but his character development is so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse

abigailpage's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Sexual content