Reviews tagging 'Torture'

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

171 reviews

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

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 against another edition

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

shannonredwine8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lauwbinx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

monsarona's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.75

I cried at certain parts 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Torture

lizard800's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.0

Each book in the series keeps improving (which doesn't mean a lot really because this isn't a great series overall). The writing in this one is better, even though there are still overused phrases ('I could have sworn that...' being one that came up a lot). Maas backed away from overuse of ellipses and em dashes, so that was nice. Still some incomplete sentences, but again not as bad as previous books.

Writing aside, the story in this book is pretty good honestly. Lots of twists and turns that you don't see coming, which I enjoyed. I do think the book could have been a LOT shorter (a theme with this series) and still told the same story.

One thing that i still don't understand is how the Carver got out of prison? I thought the mirror was just to get him to agree, but I wasn't clear on how he actually removed himself?

I also thought that the father returning at the end was kind of stupid. Rolled my eyes at that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and War