Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

46 reviews

kkellymsu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Vomit, and Gaslighting

mlottermoser's review

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Epic world building. Love the elaborate plans for revenge, the small elements of friendship and hope. Team Rowan. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

This book references sex, but not in a graphic way. The characters list for each other but don’t actually fulfill those desires. Minor storyline dealing with pregnancy and a miscarriage. Lots of blood and carnage, but she’s an assassin and they’re fighting a war.

kristanjenkins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Rape, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

marahill14's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage

cineladeras's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

savage_book_review's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

This is definitely the best book of the series audio wise so far. The pace is great; there's always enough going on to keep you engaged, and then the moments of action and tension are heightened by the limitations of the speed the narrator can read at - it just draws everything out that little bit longer so you can really feel the build. 

Similarly, despite the number of threads that make up this story and the sheer volume of characters that have roles to play, the audio manages to make everything that much more memorable so it's still easy to follow. Again, I do think the graphic audio (when it eventually arrives) will do an even better job, but for now this really does stand up. 

For some reason the quality of this audio did sound slightly different to the previous books in the series, especially at the beginning. Either I got used to it and stopped noticing as the book progressed or it's just a glitch at the start, but there are moments early on where it sounds a bit like a knock-off recording. And while Elizabeth Evans is great as always, her vocal repertoire is getting severely stretched by this point and, with many more characters due to appear in the remaining books, I am concerned that discerning between different character voices is going to become difficult and the quality may be affected. Likewise, there were a few slightly odd timing/editing choices in this book - breaks where there needn't be and vice versa. Nothing that is severely going to hamper your enjoyment, but just little things that don't quite sound right.

If anyone has figured out how to do the tandem of the next two books on audio without simply having to remember the switch points, please let me know!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

livcanread's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse

meghan_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

My favorite in the series so far!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Felt like the pacing was a bit off and that some of the character arcs changed a bit too fast in a short number of chapters to really be able to take in the change for the direction the story was going in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

rorybug's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Kidnapping