Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

11 reviews

the_true_monroe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ara02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Blood, Alcohol, and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

emsavors's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

The first two hundred pages were so hard to get through, super boring. Then the plot picked up but the overall ending was just meh. I absolutely hated the death, that was my favourite character. Overall, just super disappointed in this series, I had such high hopes too. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

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

victoriapatella's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

I overall really enjoyed this book! Definitely has the typical Cassie style, though I will say this book was particularly romance-focused (which isn’t a bad thing for me!). I love the romance—particularly all the pairings in this story—but I would have liked to see more demon battles.

I also found the end a little predictable, with James stabbing himself with Cortana and Cordelia healing him immediately after. Because of that, I didn’t really feel the magnitude of tension that I would have expected to feel for a final battle.

Overall though, I think Cassie did a great job developing some of the couples that I was DYING to get more content of (Thomas and Alastair my beloveds, plus Anna and Ari). I also think Grace’s story was handled well—I think the reactions to the truth of her and James’ “relationship” were realistic for each character. God I just love these characters so much, Cassie has such a way of making us fall in love with her characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Pregnancy

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

notmydayoff's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Sexual harassment

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit