Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

105 reviews

shaylnm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Once I got past the talking animals part I loved this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood and Classism

Minor: Drug use and War

miwandie's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.0

Feyre is a little bit of a pick me but we love her for that. Lucien is my little angel and I would kill for him, the rat bastard. 

Some of the word choices and descriptions were a bit immature and YA, but not too distracting that it ruined the read. Just a lil cringe at times. The world and creature building was fantastic. 

I recommended to my boyfriend who is much more well-versed in fantasy stories, which says a lot in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Vomit, War, Alcohol, Colonisation, Cursing, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Violence

satanichris's review

funny fast-paced

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

1.5

the main character had no personality, the main couple no development they just suddenly were in love for no reason, the first half of the book is a bunch of just nothing happening and what dies actually happen plot-wise so incredibly cliche, fast, and unserious that I struggled to finish it out of sheer frustration it was BAD. it is also a book with awful gender essentialism which was… so weird.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Violence, Alcohol, Misogyny, Sexism, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Vomit

snacksnake's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Blood, Drug use, and Torture

karen_lo's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

This book was recommended to me multiple times, and I have to say it did not disappoint. The story is original and intricate. 
I really like when all the details of a story are well thought out and make sense in the end and,  it completely shattered my childhood notions of fairies :') 
While some parts were cheesy and predictable, there were others that took me by surprise and made my heart race with anticipation. I wept, I tensed, I enjoyed the peaceful moments and had my mind trying to figure out wtf was going on in others. 
Really good book for losing yourself in another world and not wanting to come back. Can't wait to read the second one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

ninipu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

2.5

A lot of inconsistencies.
For example: Tam calls Feyre „You“, she things he can‘t remember her  name. A few sentence after he calls her Feyre, she don’t comment on it. A few sentence after he calls her Feyre again, and now she comments on ist that he know her name…. Yes, Girl, he die that a Minute ago also.
That small, bit wh hen there is stuff like this again and again it become really annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Animal death, Drug abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, and War

Minor: Medical content, Sexual assault, Rape, Ableism, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Vomit

morgangrace3's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Murder, Grief, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

iroth's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Murder, Death, Physical abuse, War, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use

kathrynreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It’s okay but I don’t get the buzz. It was just so many awful things happening over and over. Didn’t really buy into the motivations of the FMC. Will keep going with the series but was very meh as a book to me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Murder, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Torture, War, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Confinement, and Abandonment

There’s a lot of abuse of the FMC and graphic descriptions of violence

nikkic66's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual violence, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Animal death