Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

16 reviews

pickledlettuce's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

A bit of a slow burn, but a great book. I loved seeing the varied POVs from around the Seven Kingdoms, and GRRM proves again that he is a master of character.

EDIT: I bumped it up to a five. Aside from Storm, this is the best character work I’ve read in a book. We get fantastic dialogue, inner voice, and POVs from cultures and characters we hardly ever see. The King’s Landing and Ironborn chapters were among my favs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Sexual assault, and Colonisation

Although it is not explicit, there are multiple mentions of adults saying sexually violent things about children. It’s brief, but be aware.

triangular_pascal's review

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-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

5.0

This book was long but the further I got, the more connected everything became... Characters I once loved grew more annoying, and I began to have a soft spot for even those characters I used to hate. I cannot wait to continue reading asoiaf

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-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

3.5

This one went on and on and on and on and on and on.......... also the rape convos seemed to increase exponentially?? I am still invested tho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and War

Minor: Ableism, Child death, and Physical abuse

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Rape, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Slavery, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

booksnbarristers's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

SOME SPOILERS AHEAD. AS WELL AS COMMENTARY ON THE TELEVISION SERIES.
FAIR WARNING.

A Feast for Crows follows some of the least likable characters in the entire series, i.e. Cersei and the Greyjoys. Jamie continues his character development, and we get a good round backstory on Brienne. But Feast of Crows does feel at points like a filler for the series, rounding out some of the finer points of GRRM's world building, especially in places we rarely saw but heard of in the first 3 books: Dorne and Oldtown, of note.

Speaking of Dorne, this was the best part of the book. In the TV show, Dorne's involvement in the politics of the Seven Kingdoms is pretty much eliminated. Adding the Martell family and the true power they wielded as one of the Seven Kingdoms and putting the Martell family on equal footing as the other liege lord families (Lannister, Stark, Tully, Arryn, Baratheon, Tyrell) adds another chess piece to the board that is the Game of Thrones.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Torture, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

mapau's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship