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Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen

22 reviews

kaylokay_'s review

adventurous tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent and Confinement

natalie75's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Murder, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Cursing

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Colonisation, War, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Sexual content

kayceeisbookish's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Confinement, Blood, Gaslighting, Death, and Death of parent

chocolatethief's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Classism, Death, Gaslighting, and Gore

mareshempire's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This was okay, I feel like it needed more fleshing out and more editing. I think the romance was too quick and also their moments were fleeting. The ending was a bit random? The world building was lacking and the magic system needed more fleshing out too. The MC was all talk, no action. I wish she was more active in her story. It felt like she was just waiting for things to happen to her but then had snarky things to say back when she didn’t even do anything to fight against what was happening. Anyways, I still think it was fun and had just enough to keep me reading. Not sure if I’ll read the next book, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Sexual content, and Cursing

Minor: Colonisation, War, and Xenophobia

emilysreadingbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, War, Drug use, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, and Racism

Minor: Confinement, Genocide, and Fire/Fire injury

scorbunneh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Classism, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Cursing, Sexual content, and Gore

Minor: Animal cruelty, Alcohol, and Medical content

lovelymisanthrope's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

I received a beautiful edition of this book in a Fairyloot box.
"Violet Made of Thorns" is a tantalizing story about Violet, a prophet for the royal family, and Prince Cyrus. Violet and Cyrus have grown up in close proximity together, but they have lived very different lives. Violet's entire job is to see the future and help the royal family make the best decisions to rule their people, while Cyrus has been groomed to take over the throne. Violet and Cyrus have a lot of tension between them, and they seem to have to epitome of a love hate relationship. Can Violet and Cyrus work together to realize their true fates?
I was pleasantly surprised by how captivated I was by this story! Violet is a strong, capable woman who is stuck between a rock and a hard place with her role as the royal prophet. I loved seeing her walk the line between respecting the royal family and pushing back on their hardheadedness. The king saved her and she feels obligated to help him, but she does not know if that is the "right" thing.
Cyrus and Violet have amazing chemistry. I am normally not a huge enemies-to-lovers trope fan, but I am a huge childhood-friends-to-lovers trope fan. You cannot help but root for Cyrus and Violet.
I am SO excited to pick up the sequel to this story and see how the rest of Cyrus's and Violet's stories unfold. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

Ugh, I'm so torn on this book!

First off, the negatives: I couldn't stand Violet most of the time. There's a very fine line between being a "cool" anti-heroine character and being a pick-me girl and most of the time, she was the latter. There was so little build-up to her and Cyrus' relationship and their characterisation sometimes seemed to change at will.

But there was also a lot of stuff I loved! I wish this had been an adult or new adult fantasy because godddd, were those spicy scenes good. Like, came for the fantasy, stayed for the blood kink. In their makeout scenes, Cyrus & Violet had so much chemistry and especially towards the end, it really turned into a dark romance. Obsessed with that! I also enjoyed the magic system and the main villain. 

I wish the next book would be more focused on Cyrus & Violet's relationship and less on the, a bit boring, plot. The writing was so beautiful and especially that last chapter makes me tempted to still read the next one 🤫

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Self harm, Child abuse, and Classism

Minor: War and Death of parent