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A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

53 reviews

lakinglaze's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? N/A

5.0

This book — this book has my heart. I have never cried so much and so often with a story before — and not all those tears were sad — most of them, in fact, were of joy and love. That love, the compassion, the sacrifice — I won’t be able to let these characters go — not ever. It was all a gift. 🖤

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, War, Alcohol, Blood, and Death

treblemakeranna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Homophobia, Cursing, Vomit, and Torture

orakuruno's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

That was literally such a good time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Death, War, Body horror, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Rape, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

Minor: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Outing, and Confinement

kmthorson2's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Death of parent, Body horror, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Classism, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and War

Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual violence, Stalking, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Sexism, and Sexual content

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-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

3.5

Page 2 and the fragmented sentences are back. 😂

As expected, the poor writing and editing bothered me, especially the fragmented sentences.

Sample:

I had not dared to ask for more details about Cassian and Azriel — or my sisters. In terror of knowing how bad it had been — and what I'd do if their healing turned grim. What I'd bring down upon these people.

Healing. Alive and healing. I reminded myself of that every day.

Even when I still heard their screams, smelled their blood.

But I did not ask for more. Did not risk touching the bond beyond that first time.

How difficult is it to edit this book that it appeared as if the editors gave up? PSA for all the apologists for bad writing: claiming that the phrasing of the sentences is due to us reading Feyre's mind is simply a poor excuse for the poor writing. If you ever wonder why I still read this series even though I keep complaining about the writing, I can admit that I was foolish enough to buy all the books in the series before I read the first book because I succumbed to the hype. In my defense, I purchased the series when I regained my love for reading, also known as when I emerged from my 3-year reading slump, and I was too excited to buy anything that caught my interest. I am too frugal with money that I continue reading the series even if I dislike the writing, simply because I already bought all the books. Anyway.

I don't hate fantasy books being long. I actually like it when fantasy books are long because I know that it takes a lot to describe the world and give the backstories of the events and characters. BUT ACOWAR is too long, in my opinion. It could have been 200 pages shorter if Maas didn't repeat scenes over and over again.

I won't deny that I liked ACOWAR more than ACOTAR and ACOMAF.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Blood, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Death of parent, and Vomit

Minor: Confinement, Rape, and Grief

katierosecrane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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? N/A

4.5

The ending of the book had a lot happening. My brain kinda hurts. But I also couldn’t put it down. Great book kinda long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death of parent, Genocide, Murder, War, Confinement, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Vomit

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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: Gore, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, War, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Cursing

Minor: Alcohol, Vomit, and Child death

jnterhune's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

This story has everything you would ever need and want to look for. One billion starts, this book had given me laughs, tears, shocks, turns. It’s just amazing. The story is well written the characters are developed and beautiful very diverse. The story is unpredictable and that’s a lot coming from me. The overlapping and story overall is just beautiful. The suspense is amazing. I want to say this is my favorite in the series so far and probably my top book of all time now. Highly recommend can’t give it enough stars and words. Love love!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Torture, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Like review says just so amazing at a loss of words can’t not fathom how great this is and best book of all time for me.

fullybookedlola's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book just became my favourite of the series. It was so so good. Starting in the Spring Court made me already excited and then the end, oh. my. god. The hype I felt while reading this book, it was incredible. 
So well written! So heartbreaking, and so many twists, but so good! 
I don't have words for it, but I can say i really enjoyed reading all of it. From begin to end. Bat boys, go! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Kidnapping, War, Violence, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Gore, Murder, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Outing

chaos_and_chapters's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Blood, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Homophobia, Torture, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Outing

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, Slavery, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse