Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Una corte de rosas y espinas by Sarah J. Maas

38 reviews

lolasbooks12's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

chaoticbiranger's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

*Just a review of the first book, not the whole series* A very easy read, and honestly feels like The Twilight Saga of my 30s in the sense that it's a captivating series but is definitely more junkfood. It's not really deep or thought provoking, I was never deeply invested in Feyre herself. I was far more invested in everything else around her. As a first person POV, Feyre is honestly insufferable for the first 100 pages, and she's fairly annoying as the sole POV for the remainder of the book but it does gradually improve. There's entirely too much use of the words "muscle", "sensuous", "purr", "growl", and "roar" however it sort of plays into the junk food. It also has some classic familiar tropes. Parentified daughter that's not like other girls, but actually has a higher grand purpose as a Chosen One, and important men in another land are enamored by her spunk; don't forget the archery and hunting skills. 

If you're looking for spice, this is black pepper. I really thought by the way everyone raved on Tiktok calling it "faerie p**n" that it would be a bit more hot under the collar, more explicit, but there's honestly less than three scenes that get exciting. 

What this book did well was actually having reasonable pacing with the love story, it wasn't instant even though it was VERY predictable. 

What this book could do better, more creative world building. Prythian is supposed to be an entirely different land, a different world than our own. But they have typhus and say things like "go to Hell". So apparently this place has a Hell? Capitalized? It took me out of it since they made it a point to briefly explain the religious faerie origin story. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, and Death of parent

korynts's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

uphorikbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Slavery, and War

Minor: Physical abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, and Alcohol

gluttonous_eugen's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

liesthemoontells's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

spiderdrac's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

I honestly did love this book, very little descriptive sex scenes which I enjoyed. The ending was super well written and mostly just felt a little rushed at times. I wish we got to know more about the villain but I also understand it's the first book in a long series. 

My biggest complaints come from when Feyre and Tamlin first start the whole romance things. It felt, underdeveloped. Like he does a few nice things for her and then she's suddenly head over heals for him almost for no reason. She forgives him way to quickly and for someone who was kidnapped, kinda just looks over it and forgives him for VERYRHINF. Lucine is my fav though, and Feyre also forgives him too quickly. 

I enjoyed the ending but the middle and begining where a slight drag. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Murder

babyfacedoldsoul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

I decided to finally read this book and it makes for a fun summer read, particularly the graphic audio. I had not realized how deeply it is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I enjoyed that the story did become its own work especially towards the end. I enjoyed the characters and felt that SJM wrote a convincing representation of a 19 year old who had a lot on her shoulders. This was a fun read and I do have some criticisms. 
The author jumps around with the timeline a lot. Often it felt like some descriptions were given once and then never mentioned again which made it especially hard to go back and revisit details on audio. I was able to figure out the riddle immediately but I still felt satisfaction when my guess was correct. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kkpines's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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

first half dragged its pretty little feet, but WOW, the UTM half was phenomenal! i’m glad i stuck with it! 

popped my ACOTAR 🍒 .. and I’m not mad about it ??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, and Torture

Minor: Forced institutionalization

m_parker9612's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail