Reviews tagging 'Torture'

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

175 reviews

j_day's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kim_gzt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Loved it! Great story telling and the most plot driven book so far in the series! I enjoyed reading about the politics within the world and of course the final battle we’ve all been waiting for! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexism and Torture

karen_lo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual violence

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-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: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

catastrophiclyss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

refrejarator's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

5.0

A stunning third instalment to the ACOTAR series. I was absolutely enthralled- I stayed up till 4am so I could finish the third and final part in the book. I'm breathless and overjoyed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcohol

kelisabeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

gabriella_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

While reading this book I felt that it was a really slow start. I was not expecting it to pick up right after the events of ACOMAF but was glad to see Feyre do some mental warfare against her enemies. Personally for me it didn't pick up until Cassian and Azriel showed up to save their High Lady, MY FAVORITE PART). The last 100-150 pages were absolutely killer and made the long read worth wild for me.  I have come to realize that the last 100-150 pages of all of SJM's book are like this. They hook and sink the reader in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Torture

lizziaha's review

2.0

The problem with this book is that it barely scratches the surface of every aspect. The world building is surface level; the character work is surface level; the social commentary is surface level; and even the plot feels surface level. Despite big things happening that *should* have high stakes, every thing always comes up Feyre, so it’s hard to feel any emotion or anticipation about anything happening. And whenever a character does something bad, instead of allowing that to create tension and conflict, sjm immediately diffuses it by establishing that the character was simply *pretending* to be bad and they had good intentions all along. It’s makes for a very boring story to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

stailysh1's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-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

4.75

A perfect ending to Feyre's point of view.  Even though I knew things would be okay in the end, I was still so tense reading the last third of the book!  This book had me in its grip!  Probably didn't need to be 700 pages but I enjoyed the little moments too.  I really fell in love with the characters, even ones outside the inner circle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail