Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Corte de Névoa e Fúria by Sarah J. Maas

469 reviews

suchallie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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

4.5

A strong second installment of the series, the story was engaging and compelling and mostly believable. However, the author has a habit of leaving things out, unclear storytelling in some key moments, and the ending was racially a deux ex machina in a way which just felt cheap and convenient.  But overall a good read and I will read the next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Vomit

lovereads19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

i’m so invested, it’s amazing, the plot twist at the end shocked me, definitely better than acotar 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Minor: Confinement, Torture, and War

dizzy_mittz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.75

A wonderful sequel that few could accomplish. SJM has earned her title as a leader of fantasy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexism, and Sexual violence

samflowerv6's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.25

I love Feysand!!! some times it felt corny but it was so fun. I loved the Night Court antics, Feyre’s healing and all the high risk adventures. I love Mor and Amren too!! That last bit had me on my TOES. Feyre is just my #1 girl and obviously I’m in love with Rhysand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

lexilovesreadingandlaufey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

AAAAAAAAA

IT SSO SAD LMG THE BOND 😓😓😓

NAYWYA I LOVED IT SO MUDH. READ KT AND

FUCK TAMPON I HATE THE PISSY EXCYSE OF A MAN

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Vomit, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War

whyohchai's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed this book in many ways, for taking

a traditional love interest and turning it on it's head and showing how the type of men we romanticize in media are in reality, controlling and unhealthy, for taking the protagonist's trauma seriously and exploring how deeply she would be affected by it and how difficult it would be to work through it, and the emphasis that is placed on Rhys being attractive because of how he supports Feyre and considers her right to choose to be sacred, wants her as his full equal, and works to see and understand her and to be vulnerable enough to show her the parts of him that he is ashamed. He's also a interesting, dynamic love interest in many ways.

But the author really struggles with characterization point blank (the characters are mostly deeply bland and we do not understand who these people are and why they care for each other), character development, can't handle balancing plot with romance and struggles deeply with world building and even basic things like the description of the world and paintings around them, and worst, the author uses

character retcon and assassination as a crutch instead of doing the work to show a more nuanced and complicated take on abusive relationships and the way a person's true character takes time to show/how our rose-tinted perception of a person can hide their flaws, and also constantly undermines her own ham-fisted feminist takes (having Rhys repeat the word "choice" 10,000 times in the books to convey he's a feminist JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT -- though his very actions contradict this but the author just glosses over it because she does not have the writing skill to create a true feminist partner!! ) by ignoring the fact that for example, Rhys in this book and going forward in multiple circumstances hides information from Feyre and does not in fact fully respect her personhood and her right to make her own decisions. Placing Feyre in a deeply traumatic and dangerous situation in the Crone's Hut, without her knowledge, and driven by a paternalistic view of how and when he believed Feyre should address her trauma, was abusive and controlling.

The author also still leans too much on an archaic framing of gender and heteronormative relationships, despite some efforts to do the opposite, which results in corny dialogue and interactions, and the idea of "mates" which undermines all of the romance in the entire series, and also a concept is deeply unclear and problematic (it's based on breeding? and is generally positively framed

even though Rhys' parents were mated and his father was  abusive?).

Also, this series is fantasy and has a plot in the way a person wearing bunny ears on Halloween is a rabbit. Feels like serious mis-advertisement. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

helfire124's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

beebowbabe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, and War

Minor: Sexual assault, Torture, and Vomit

justcaryn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

This one blew the first book out of the water! I devoured this book! I laughed and cried and clutched my pearls. Haha. I’m so excited to see what’s next for the characters!! 

There is a heavy theme of abandonment and confinement in this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

lizzanator's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Confinement and Blood