Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Throne of Glass - Die Erwählte by Sarah J. Maas

286 reviews

orakuruno's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

The plot was interesting and hooked me right away, but the characters felt underdeveloped and the world building wasn't what it could've been.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Child abuse, Death of parent, Vomit, Death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, Abandonment, Deportation, and Animal cruelty

mrs_bastos's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

The dialogue is confusing, often hopping around, and there are too many over-dramatic, cliché narrations. It’s an interesting world and story, and I wanted to know what happened, but the writing style really annoyed me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Misogyny, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

booksemmahasread's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Slavery, Death, Grief, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Gaslighting, Grief, Death of parent, and War

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Sexism, Slavery, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Rape, Sexual content, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Misogyny, Drug use, War, and Torture

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Bullying, Death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Torture, and Vomit

annikenr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Slavery, Body horror, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Vomit and Rape

lmcarr0314's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed this book, it was pretty good. I was really into the challenges, The characters and their backstories. I enjoyed reading it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Slavery, and Death

Minor: Vomit

ashley_briana26's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.0

This was a good book! The first half was a bit slow as it set up the world but the ending was exciting and makes me anxious to run to the store for the next one in the series! Now that the world building is established the rest of the books should be faster paced. The characters were nicely fleshed out and easy to empathize with. There’s some murder mystery elements in this book as well that I greatly enjoyed! I would recommend this book to those who don’t want spice but still want a cute little will they won’t they romance in a mostly adventure based fantasy setting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death, Genocide, Death of parent, and Slavery

Minor: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, and Alcohol

hannalizzy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

A great first book to kick off a series, very engaging from the start. The love triangle had so much potential, but I feel like it wasn’t explored enough, though I suppose there’s still plenty of time in the series left to flesh it out. If someone only wants to read this book for the romance, they’d be disappointed, since not much happens aside from like two scenes with just a kiss. Overall, this book does a great job setting up a really dynamic and interesting plot web for the next few books to explore. I’m already starting the next one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Body horror, Gore, and Classism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Slavery, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cannibalism, Death of parent, Drug use, and Vomit

faithsbookreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

I liked this book! It was entertaining & really easy to read. I will say that I never really expected Nehemiah to have anything to do with the murders & I suspected it was Cain the entire time. I’m not sure if that aspect was supposed to be a plot twist but if so, it was a little disappointing that it was that obvious. Regardless, I enjoyed this book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cannibalism, Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence