Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

189 reviews

cheerydeery's review against another edition

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

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lavendar's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

An underrated fast-paced plot-twisting continuation of the series, and one of my favorite among them! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Body horror, Sexual content, Blood, and Death of parent

My

Chaolaena era

jnterhune's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

I’m loving this series, this book was awesome, a fast read, keeping me up at night, so wild you have to read with a friend cause you will want to talk about it, loved the overall whole story never found it dull or boring, gives everything you want excited to keep reading this story and rollercoaster! LOVE LOVE LOVE 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Just loving it already starting the next one enjoying what’s to come in love! This one really brought the WOW factor just packed with a wild ride must read!

melinette7's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

Again, I find myself at loss for words. This book is epic, made me lose track of time and everything. It's fantastic. There are no words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

jenniee_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and War

krosebooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Similar to the first book in the Throne of Glass series, I was really intrigued in the beginning then the end kind of lost me. I don’t know if I’m still learning the universe and it’s making it harder to get into the harder concepts or what. 

Good book loved the twist

Chaol learning about Celeana’s heritage

. I found Chaol to be the most interesting character in this book because of his

struggle to choose sides between his loyalty to the kingdom and Celeana

. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

indigo_fox's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.75

I'm still enjoying following Celaena's story, she's a fun character. She does make some choices in this book that I thought seemed about OOC from what I know about her, but maybe I just have the wrong idea of her? 

I really liked this installment of the story because there was a little mystery the readers could try to solve. It was fun gathering all the little hints to see if I could discover what was going on. I got somethings right but was caught off guard with other things so it was a lot of fun!

I'm looking forward to the next read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, and War

librarybookfamily's review against another edition

dark

3.75

This book shattered my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

kathrynleereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Another solid re-read. In Crown of Midnight, Sarah J Maas focused a little more on romance but also didn't pull any punches when it came to the rebellion, politics, and the air of mystery surrounding the plot in general. 

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

As much as I love this book and understand the reasoning behind it, I will never, never, EVER forgive Sarah for what she did to Nehemia. I know why it had to happen, but that doesn't make it hurt any less. 

Overall, I think I enjoyed Crown of Midnight just as much this time as I did the first time, even though I was dreading rereading the events of that cursed night.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

katie_lerdo's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death

Minor: Grief