Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

21 reviews

catherines032's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

I loved this book so much. No matter how long it's been since I last read a Cassandra Clare book, she always manages to describe the world and characters so vividly that I feel I slot right back in. Although I found COT to be slower paced than some of the previous two in the last hours trilogy, I actually enjoyed how she slowed the pace for its conclusion- it gave me more time with a cast of characters who I love so much and I honestly wish I had more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and Murder

Minor: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

If the miscommunication trope hadn’t been milked for half the book it would’ve been a knock out. But once that was sorted out things were epic! I’m sad to see the series go and enjoyed it immensely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

lectricefeministe's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Violence, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

leedolee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

A perfect conclusion for this series. A whirlwind of emotions as per usual but a great, entertaining read nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

This was a great finale! I laughed, cried, was stressed. The poor Merry Thieves were put through so much in this series! I do think that parts near the beginning could have been trimmed or cut out - this book dragged through the beginning and was longer than it needed to be. But I did enjoy as we got farther into the book and the ending was brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Confinement, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Outing

stxrlightreaderxx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Outing and Injury/Injury detail

em_thereader07'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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

chaptersofamylea's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.0

"I rather think love is something like a book written just for us, a sort of holy text it is given to us to interpret."

3 ⭐️

I’m sad. I feel underwhelmed and the second half of the book felt like a slog to get through. Was it a joy to be reunited with the characters? Yes. But it all felt a little repetitive and like reworked from her other books with maybe an added little bit. I felt no emotion to the event that I was expecting to lose my shit over. I also don’t think that particularly part was written well, it could’ve been so hard hitting but fell behind in everything else going on. Like the characters acted out of character by the event.

I will say that I was glad that the characters got closure at the end of the series, I just wish we had a better finale to the series. If the rest of the book was as fast paced as the first third with more layers to it, I think I would’ve loved it more.

Matthew Fairchild is King though, the babe deserves the world.

TWs: alcohol dependence, withdrawal, homophobia, corpse depictions, injury depictions, death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia