Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

70 reviews

karsynisawesome's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy

Aelin is dealing with terrible PTSD/guilt and is clearly suicidal in this book. She acts in sacrificial ways and thinks she deserves to die.

merrow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

A very good finale, although the start was let down by following on from the previous book’s cruelly horrific cliffhanger. Nevertheless, it picked up very quickly and gave all the great characters fitting stories to use and deepen them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Torture

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

amethystbutterfly's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

I really loved the book. It gave me hope. It was beautiful yet heartbreaking story of a bunch of people who fight their way to home and freedom. Perfect book for fantasy lovers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and War

tiredtori's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

karinreadsalot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

My only complaint was that this book was so long. But I understand it needed to tie up all the loose ends. So beautifully written and the perfect end to a great series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, and Death of parent

ashleighrobin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

What a way to wrap up this series. Even though this is almost 1000 pages, I still feel like l some characters didn’t get the storyline and wrap up that they deserved.

The battle between Maeve and aelin is what is knocking this from a 5 star for me, because it’s “it was all an illusion” was kind of convoluted imo. I understand why she wrote it like that bc of Maeve’s valg powers, but still I don’t love it.

also enjoyed some of the crossovers between acotar and cc (like the glow worms!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

lauren_drinkard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Kidnapping, and War

aammeess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Animal death and Colonisation

nyghtengale's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

If you like Sarah J Maas, you will like this book.  I like the ACOTAR series and have read the Cresent City as well.   Finishing the Throne of Glass saga left me with a thought.  Just like her other book, the pacing is grating for me.  There is so much world-building and hand-holding and unnecessary pain for shock.  Then, the last hill of a roller coaster in the last 100 pages.   It leaves you emotionally raw, stripped, and, for me, not in a good way.  I thought this was the series that started her journey, and I watched the progression of her writing style.  The structure and pacing are all the same, so I am done.    Alien, Feyre, and Bryce are all the same with just enough variance to say some are different.    I am done with Maas, but for others her books are golden and for her writing style this one is a good one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, and War

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Self harm, Slavery, and Alcohol