Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

50 reviews

charlipotato's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.75

Absolutely in love with this book, still some repetitiveness like the first book but the writing is so improved. The characters are so full and interesting and the overall story is emotional, tense and beautiful 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Vomit, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

wrensreadingroom's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, War, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Drug use, Sexual content, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

josiee's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Body horror, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Mental illness, Stalking, Biphobia, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, Violence, Vomit, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Body shaming, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

redheadsuperpowers's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.0

I liked this so much more than the first book in the series. The descriptions of the Night Court are absolutely beautiful and makes me wish it was a real place to see. The main character Feyre feels much less self insert in this, and is dealing with the events from the first book in a very real way. The slow burn was just the right speed for the situation between her and Rhys, and the way he respects and treats her gives me the warm fuzzies. The depth of world building author Sarah does in this helps make the world more believable. Feyre keeps her kind disposition while still growing in her new life. I am actually looking forward to picking up the next one. I do have to say, for a book series known as spicy🌶️, the smutty scenes are fairly tame in this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

kiwij96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

This is an excellent sequel to the original book, however I felt that I was missing out on key information at parts, or that some things just didn't make much sense. Like Feyre's new abilities didn't take too long to master, or how she understood what someone meant by something but there was no explanation as to what she was understanding.

However, I ate this up. The new characters grew on me immediately- Cassian, Azriel, Mor, Amren. I fell in love with Rhysand over and over again through his and Feyre's flirting, through the ways he showed how much he cared for her well-being.

Very well thought out backgrounds to events that took place in the first book, brilliant descriptions which added to the already well established worldbuilding, drama and advernture, friendship and betrayal, trust and love and heartbreak and spice. What more could you want?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexual content, Blood, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death of parent, War, Confinement, and Vomit

natroze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

Enjoying these despite the heterosexuality

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Mental illness, Confinement, and Grief

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Slavery, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Death of parent, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, War, Murder, and Rape

riella_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

 The fact that I swore I would never read this series and yet here we are rating this 5 stars?!? This was perfection. I havent been this engrossed I'm anything since twilight, which was a long long time ago 😅

Also, excuse me but Rhys??? I knew that booksta and booktok was obsessed but I stupidly thought they were exaggerating. They weren't. Rhys is literally E V E R Y T H I N G and im here for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Classism, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Torture, Murder, Sexual content, and War

katievallin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Stalking, Sexual content, Blood, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Violence, War, and Vomit

Moderate: Child abuse, Murder, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

shaunaxx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Grief, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, War, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

pandalesque's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

I enjoyed listening to the first and second book via audiobook. I think the narrator did a good job. Though like every time with audiobooks and with a single narrator, It isn't always clear who talkes or within a chapter if we're still in the same paragraph/timeline or even location. Sometimes I felt not having a map or the names of characters or things in this fantasy world were a little disadvantageous but I could easily search for it online. So all in all I can recommend the audiobook.

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•  I like S.J.M.'s descriptions of cities, landscapes and clothes
• I think the basis/premise of the world is very interesting
•  I enjoy fantasy stories where the MCs train and get to know their powers like in this story and I enjoy the fight scenes
•  I do like that the focus is on different relationships (friendships and romantic – found family)
•  I am invested enough to be curious how the story continues/I want to finish the series
• I liked that they flirted via letters/texts (kinda made it feel a little 21st century)

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• Not a fan of her endings until now
• Though I liked the descriptions it is a long ass book.
• maybe I'm not getting it but sometimes I don't believe the threads of some plots come together so that they "make sense" to me. Sometimes I got confused by the world building or the magic system rules or the change in behavior or descriptions of creatures.
  -> Either I don't get it but mostly I feel like I notice how she introduces/ changes certain characters, plot points to get the story where she wants to. But I don't feel like it's quite built in nicely/naturally which takes me out of the story.
  • Why do girls already mature with 14 like humans even though they're faey?
    How they age and their development stages are confusing
• especially the end and the cauldron and book story seems so weird and inconsistent...
• ... also that the solution seems to be her giving herself up to Tamlin again? I don't get it tbh (for the advancement of the plot and character yes but again, felt the execution lacked)
• the trials with the weaver, bone carver, orbe... don't seem very necessary, also the reasons behind why they encountered them are more than a little weak /not natural, except to further the romance/character development get the story where she wants
• Very cringe at times, mostly concerning the romance plot(s)/wording (but I have that with pretty much any romance)
• Sometimes they say: "that's his/her story to tell..." other times people go in depths about trauma's others have endured... 
• Less spice than advertised
• very fast character development/pivots:
• Don't think the whole "Tamlin turning bad"-storyline is convincing enough for me and he seems dafter, also ....not necessary. I can imagine maybe the author wanted to create a situation where the readers may reflect in the sense of: "everybody could end up in a abusive relationship", "people can change", "people aren't what they seem"... I can appreciate that.... Or maybe it's just so we automatically "ship" the new couple. but I believe it could be told more convincingly. 
• Feyre herself...

Spice/smut 🔥2.3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Torture, Death, Domestic abuse, and Sexism