Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

23 reviews

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I have slowly been making my way through The Shadowhunters' books for about a year now. After reading and loving The Infernal Devices series, I was apprehensive to pick up The Dark Artifices. Now that I have read two out of the three in The Dark Artifices series, I can guess that unless "Queen of Air and Darkness" does something super amazing, The Dark Artifices is my least favorite part of this series. 
This book felt three hundred pages too long with too many perspectives and far too much information for the reader to sift through. I struggled to get into this book for weeks, and when I finally got a little momentum, the story was almost over. I do enjoy how complex Cassandra Clare makes her world and how much detail she pours into her writing, but this was just too much for me. 
I do plan to continue my Shadowhunters journey, but I am more apprehensive to pick up an even longer Dark Artifices book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Grief

nicolewithbooks's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Violence, Death, Child death, Sexual content, Murder, and Death of parent

saskiarachel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

em_davies7019's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

phily_g_123's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

This one doesn't even have the "Big bad got defeated but everyone's unhappy anyway." pattern. It's just sadness all around and I hate that this is a norm in this whole series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Murder, Violence, and Xenophobia

novelsistah's review against another edition

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? No

4.0

Hell of a cliffhanger.  I am broken and sobbing!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual content

lectricefeministe's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Dementia, Deadnaming, and Panic attacks/disorders

lujssday's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? N/A

5.0

what was that ending judith

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Violence

rachelleblanc__'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Sexual content

lubarbara's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

A diferencia de Lady Midnight este libro me pareció bastante más crudo y desolador, me gusta que los personajes, especialmente Julian, se manejen en una moralidad gris casi todo el tiempo y nos terminemos cuestionando nuestra propia moral.

No me termina de cerrar la historia de Diana (i mean, entiendo y apoyo la representación LGBT but seriously? Lo sentí un poco forzado). Y banco mucho mucho la relación Cristina-Kieran-Mark, si no terminan juntos me lastimo (no es literal, es un decir)

En otro tema: Leo todo lo de Cassandra Clare porque me gustan mucho sus historias y personajes, su habilidad de crear mundos increíbles que podrían existir, pero que jamás nos enteraríamos pues somos simples mundanos (el universo del Downworld y los Shadowhunters es mi favorito del mundo ficción), pero (y es un gran pero) su obsesión con el incesto me preocupa mucho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Hate crime, Incest, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Violence