Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

62 reviews

ladyames20203's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

5.0

Genuinely loved this book, it just took forever to read because ~life~

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, War, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Slavery, Mental illness, Grief, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Infertility

beebalm's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.5

You can tell that SJM'S writing skills improved over the course of this series, and the last few books were much more worth their length than the first couple. I liked the growth from Aelin

while healing after escaping Maeve

and how it helped recontextualize some of her more "I'm a sassy, badass female protagonist. Yes I'm a teenager. Yes I'm a master assassin." behavior earlier in the series that I think was in part due to the author being earlier in her career. The book also did a good job bringing in characters from the various plot threads and tying those up in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Torture

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and War

Minor: Blood, Animal death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Animal death, Suicide, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, War, Cursing, Death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Self harm, Vomit, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Animal cruelty, Deportation, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Body horror, and Genocide

diesabliss's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Emotional abuse, and War

sdemo08's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

Whew. I got a little worried toward the end and wasn't sure if I could finish. There were so many plot points to keep up with and I felt like every couple of pages was some sort of mind-boggling plot twist, martyrdom, or marathon between characters racing to the finish before their clock stopped. Ultimately I liked it but I'm glad it's over.

[Fire on "black currant" crocheted blanket]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Sexual assault, War, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Vomit, Gaslighting, Genocide, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

empower's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? No

4.5

Such a good ending to a wonderfully emotional series. ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: War and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Toxic relationship

cisforcookie88's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, War, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Torture, and Violence

mollydollydoodah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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’m pretty satisfied with that ending.

To be honest, less people died than I thought they would! I thought either Lysandra or Aedion were goners for sure, along with either Borte, Nesryn, or Dorian himself. I feel like it was a little too much of a happy ending despite all the loss, because there weren’t really a lot of deaths I could connect to. The rest of the Thirteen dying was sad, and I cried for Asterin, but I didn’t really know any of the others other than Vesta and Sorrel. I feel like a little more loss would have been effective (in making me sob), but I am of course happy that it did not end that way. I would get annoyed with how often the pov’s switched, because I’d get so invested in what was taking place in one storyline that I’d get frustrated at having to leave it behind. But that frustration would soon be forgotten as I was sucked into the new perspective, so I wasn’t too upset. I thought that the storyline progressed well, even if it stressed me out to no end that nobody was aiding Aedion and the Bane and how badly I wanted to slaughter the old Terrasen Lords. Aelin’s time being tortured and her recovery were some of my most-anticipated things to read about in this book, and they were written very well. It was very sad and heartbreaking, especially the parts with Fenrys, but it was powerful. I’m so glad that they had each other both through it and afterwards, and I thought that their unspoken language was so powerful as well. I really enjoyed all the action and adventure in this book, but I was definitely frustrated with certain points. I thought it was BS how Aedion was treating Lysandra, and how she just ended up forgiving him. And I agree that it was important to have those effective final battle scenes with Maeve and Erawan, but I thought it was BS that the gods just didn’t follow through with their bargain and even more BS that Aelin tried to save Elena, who’d had a thousand years already, like wtf? I’m very disappointed that she and Dorian lost most of her powers but oh well. I loved Dorian in this book, especially how he slayed and played Maeve at Morath, even if I thought he was being an idiot in how he was frolicking about in his different forms and in letting Maeve free when he left. My favorite parts of these books have been badass Aelin kicking ass and taking names and looking amazing while doing it, wielding schemes and plans and powers like no other. It was disappointing that we didn’t get a lot of those this book, but it made sense with the whole tortured deal. I still have a few questions about things, such as whatever happened to Dorian’s mom and Hollin? Also, who is that other member of the cadre that was ever so briefly mentioned, and how will he come up again in the future SJM universe?? Oh yeah, and Aelin totally saw Rhys and Feyre when she was falling through worlds, so that was pretty cool. All in all, I think it was almost too happy of an ending, but I’m glad there was no pregnancy trope with Aelin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, War, Slavery, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Grief, Gore, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

charhollyx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? No

5.0

Wow. 
All I keep saying is wow. I finished this series like 6 hours ago but I still haven’t left this world. I think this story will stay with me for the rest of my life.

Yrene is the GOAT of this book, Aelin a close second. I knew about the losing powers trope beforehand but I’m glad she at least kept her immortality. 
The thirteens sacrifice killed me off the most, I felt my heart break for this team of loyal warriors who gave their lives for their wing leader. I’m welling up even writing this and thinking about it all over again.
Manon and Dorian deserved a proper ending, but I don’t mind the openness. In my mind, they continued meeting up and she eventually removed her immortality to be with him.
Fenrys. Sweet baby fenrys. The most underrated character.
The keys really felt pointless in this book, the only annoying part with the 8 book build up of importance. They could have waited and stored the keys somewhere safe, killed them both and idk, whatever afterwards😂
Special shout-out to another underrated love, Elide. Bold, brave, loyal, fearless… and she even made me love lorcan a little too.
Aedion ruined this book for me, my love for him vanished when he had the audacity to do Lysandra dirty. I will not forgive as easily as she did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Grief, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

very much satisfied with the ending. i’m gonna miss this series so much.

this book had it’s weaker moments, i really think it could’ve been much shorter and the pacing wasn’t that great. 

some POVs (especially at the beginning) were kinda boring. it felt off how i had to read about Aedion’s whiny complains and Chaol and Yrene’s shitty idea to meet his parents while the POVs revolving around Dorian/Manon & Aelin/Fenrys and the “looking for Aelin” team were just so much better? 

the reunions, the reveals and the action/battles were absolutely the best parts of that book, i had so much fun there. and i have almost zero complains about the ending, i loved these characters so much and i would absolutely read more of this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Grief, Torture, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Slavery