Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Una corte de rosas y espinas by Sarah J. Maas

4 reviews

cararowen's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

Colonizer trash meets beauty and the beast, plot requires main character to have no sense, does not have any actual character development, dubious consent for so so many scenes. Very my first romance novel vibes.

Feyra is not like the other girls, she's special, she's not hot but ever fairy man desires her, she's unable to listen to the most basic instructions, beauty and the beast is about compromise, this is about ignoring your boyfriend is rich because his daddy owned people and having your main character intoxicated and/or enchanted and/or manipulated into every sexual situation then claiming it's love. It's about having zero feelings of guilt when you get other people in trouble or dead and being consistently rewarded.

I have never disliked a text more than this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Blood, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and War

gracie1999's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Cultural appropriation

Minor: Vomit

lizzye33's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and War

Minor: Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

jmeier's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense

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

1.5

the protagonist is incredibly unlikeable. the other characters are poorly fleshed out, and the plot is absurd.

3/4 of the way through this incredibly slow beauty and the beast adaptation, there's suddenly a hunger games plot? completely bizarre shift. We are also supposed to empathize with a character who threatens sexual assault, and to forgive the torture and murder of a bunch of innocents for the "greater good" . the greater good being the protagonist getting to have sex. 

sex scenes were a bit silly, but still somewhat stirring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping