Reviews tagging Colonisation

Una corte de rosas y espinas, by Sarah J. Maas

10 reviews

cymurray's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Grief, Torture, Death of parent, Classism, Death, Blood, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual content, and Slavery

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

1.0

Oh boy, so many things to say here. First of all, this was the first series in over 10 years that I DNF'd (never got past the first book). The writing is mediocre at best, the descriptions are trite and cliche, and it reads like fanfiction written by a middle-schooler. The main character, Feyre, is whiny, unlikable, and overall bland and annoying, she reads like a textbook self-insert mary sue who is the best at everything, except being girly because she's "not like other girls". The plot makes no real sense, and the story takes forever to move forward, usually with more focus on the smutty romance bits than the actual storyline. This story has just taken Katniss from the Hunger Games, poorly reskinned her, and dumped her in a wannabe dark and raunchy beauty and the beast ripoff. I could maybe see how it could be enjoyable for a horned up middle schooler/ early high schooler, but this book is not for anyone who wants actual substance to their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Violence, Vomit, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Death, Injury/injury detail, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Murder, Body horror, Alcohol, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Classism, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, War, Torture, Xenophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Stalking, Terminal illness, Child death, Classism, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Colonisation

emersonseyeball's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Classism, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, War, and Xenophobia

mandaraffe's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Injury/injury detail, Vomit, Blood, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, War, Classism, and Sexual content

Minor: Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

ericajoy99's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

As a Black American, I don't reccomend this book to other Black people or other oppressed groups because there is so much talk about ~humans~ being dominated and being slaves while all the humans in the book are white. It's definitely one of those fantasy books that was and is still a reality for folks today. That being said I did find that once I started I did want to know what happened at the end 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Vomit, War, and Xenophobia

lyd41's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

1.0

This was wattpad level trash and the sex scenes weren't even worth it. Also SJM ruined fae lore. Fae are supposed to be epic and whimsical, all she did was make them sus 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Physical abuse, Vomit, Gore, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, War, Murder, Stalking, Sexual content, and Slavery

a_libra_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I understand why this series took off, its easy to read, great world building but that's it. It's not the fairy erotica everyone says it is. But reading this in 2022 - nothing ground breaking or new. 
Could've been an normal beauty and the beast retelling but the author has other plans towards the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Animal death, Bullying, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and War

campisforever's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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? No

4.0

The major beats are Beauty and the Beast, more or less. For readers particularly attuned to gendered terminology, the terms “fe/male” show up a lot, sometimes in places they don’t necessarily need to be (e.g., “a towering male figure” when it could just be “a towering figure,” etc.; these terms are shorthand for things that can be described otherwise, with thought and care). I can understand the use of these terms insofar as they refer to the “sex” of beings that aren’t human, but they did throw me out of the story occasionally in ways that were annoying, in part because they often operate on assumptions about bodily makeup and gender that I don’t ascribe to. Once I got a feel for how these terms work insofar as they differentiate faerie/human characteristics, I was okay. But I thought it might be helpful for other enby/gender nonconforming folx to know. 

What this book does extraordinarily well is establish a broader nexus of character connections and a wider range for the plot. I don’t think I’ve ever read a first book that set me up so well for the sequels before, and I will read the entire series.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Be mindful of gendered terms that may cause dysphoria; the romance is pretty hetero

amyhamilton's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

dadimabookernow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Wow. Okay so I almost put this book down on a multitude of occasions but I'm really glad I didn't.

A big chunk of the book is very slow paced but damn that ending those last few chapters were just so good. I was unable to put the book down! 

I also like the way that it didn't really end on a cliff hanger like most series do. So if you aren't a person that enjoys reading series you can still read this book and be content with that as an ending for the story as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, War, and Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual content