Reviews tagging 'War'

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

20 reviews

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

Well that was uncalled for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Alcohol, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy and Sexual content

hollymileham's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

one thing about me is im going to love the gay lightwoods with all my heart..
this was a perfect ending to this trilogy which i enjoyed so much, second only to the dark artifices
sidenote every time they called themselves the merry thieves it gave me the ick

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Grief and Violence

cait's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Grief, Blood, War, Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Vomit, Alcohol, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Homophobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

val_theburrowofstories'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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Alcoholism, Child death, Grief, Addiction, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, War, and Kidnapping

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Lesbophobia

tousledtreasure's review

adventurous emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, and War

Moderate: Death of parent

caroline1999's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Alcoholism, War, and Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Cursing, Grief, and Toxic relationship

ara02's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: War, Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

nadiaherondale's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

So yes, I'm biased 'cause this series has been with me for 10 years so I will probably give a great rating to all its books, however this one deserves it. I think Clare is better at writing period pieces more than contemporary (or maybe I love period fantasy more than urban). The final installement of The Last Hours is action packed, romance packed and drama packed and not lacking in any department. And although I can't in good faith be aligned with certain character deaths (I'm not forgiving you Cassie Clare, it's the third time you break me this way) I have to admit she knows how to write a great book. So, 5/5 especially for the epilogue, I love (mostly) happy endings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death, Alcohol, Infidelity, Violence, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, and War

frantically's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

After QoAaD (which was admittedly a good ending but also...weird), I was hesitant to start this, seeing as TLH had the potential to become my favourite TSC series — and it is now!

Yes, it's a very long book and the beginning was very long-winded. Especially the whole love triangle thing, imo, we could've done without.

I enjoyed most of the other plot times a lot, though. We have a visit to Edom again (another good place for CC to be weird) but it isn't weird! Yay. There are a lot of redemption arcs, mainly for Grace and Alastair, and all of those were all believable and well done.

There is one character who dies and it was just such a cheap cop out. I truly don't think last books need to have tragic deaths to become tragic, there was already enough tragedy in this book. It felt like a "gotcha!" moment but a really cheap one.

We got some cute moments for the TID generation but through smart plot lines there were good reasons for them to not be available for most of the drama — this was their kids time to save the world (or...just London).

Overall, I'm still really happy with how this story ended and it was a quite satisfying ending to the TID/TLH story 🤍

Also: Shoutout to our ret-con queen Esme Hardcastle, wtf

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Addiction, Murder, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, War, Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

emsavors's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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: Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Alcoholism, Child death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Outing, Death, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Confinement, Grief, Lesbophobia, Addiction, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Racism, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, and War