Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

47 reviews

sugarwookiee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Violence, Murder, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Animal death

aileron's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Violence, War, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Slavery, Pregnancy, Animal death, Vomit, and Emotional abuse

dani_reis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death

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

beckyremillard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, and Grief

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

virtual_ambs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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? No

5.0

There is a special place in my heart that until now I thought was reserved just for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but alas there is space for one more. Both now reside together in easy reach of my bed 

The character development and world building included in this series is absolutely phenomenal and this finale sticks the landing. The prologue alone is incredible. There are three things SJM writes incredibly well: Battle scenes, Women I wanna be and men who actually deserve to be with those women, this book showcases all three in abundance. I cried my eyes out multiple times to this book both in joy and heartache and probs once or twice out of sheer tension. 

As much as I tried to avoid it, I had a fair amount of this book spoilt for me thanks to bookstagram and Booktok but my god this book still had me on the edge of my seat the whole time and I think some of those spoilers actually saved me from a number of cardiac arrests. The pace of this book is incredible and the plot twists and tension building fantastic. I love the skill SJM has for tying everything little thing in from across a series, I think I screamed at the end of chapter 16. 

*** I’ve tried to keep my following thoughts as a vague overview and spoiler-free but if you want to remain unbiased prior to reading stop now coz I’m about to spread a whole lot of love ***

Aelin is my favourite character ever now - I love how SJM really gave her bravery and courage center stage here (obvs one does not speak Aelin Ashryver Whitethorn Galathynius’s name without mentioning her intelligence, sass and all round badass ways too). 

The storyline of the witches is absolutely outstanding - Manon and Abraxos for the win. Everyone should read these books for them alone, I am and always will be sucker for a witch story and Manon’s is a so interesting and different, a favourite for sure. I’m never going to emotionally recover from chapters 90 and 91. 

Lysandra and Elide are the friends Aelin’s deserved her whole life, they both deserve the world. All of their POVs were incredible and some of their scenes hold their own against Aelin’s and Manon’s storylines well. 

Rowan is the no. 1 book BF. The ending of chapter 28 sent chills down my spine, I freaking loved it. Aelin and Rowan’s relationship is beautiful and they compliment and support each other so well. 

Fenrys… I am speechless, give the male a whole book. 

It was great to see Dorian get more independence in terms of plot - and boy was he given a worthy story.

Maeve was such an interesting character, I loved the constant blurred lines and grey moments to her character. So many dimensions (pun unintentional but acknowledged). 

If I had any wishes to make it would be: 

It would have been nice to see the OG gang - Aelin, Dorian and Chaol have more interaction towards the end but you can’t have everything. 

I got a bit tired of hearing about the TOD gang, especially towards the end, feel like they were starting to take away from Aelin’s hard fought ending. 

Anyways…

I pray SJM wasn’t playing with us hinting TOG having a few stories left to tell. 

It’s Aelin’s world, we’re all just living in it now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Violence, Blood, Death, and Gore

Minor: Death of parent and Animal death

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Child abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Abandonment, Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War, Vomit, Classism, Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Violence

alexz_miller's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, War, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal death