Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

4 reviews

andhochmuth's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

The world building and story telling is really good. I enjoyed the dynamic between the Fey world and the Human world. Towards the middle of the book there was a chapter that could have been title "Info Dumping" but I wasn't too upset since it was interesting information. Feyre starts off as annoying and very hard headed. While I never disliked her, it was hard sometimes reading about the terrible choices she would make despite being told it was a bad idea. 

Many of the graphic descriptions or allusions to torture were off putting. I know that was the point, but some of the characters seem to be over the top evil. Maybe Fey are different, but it seemed an unnecessary way to gain what they wanted. 

I loved the characters of Tamlin and Lucien. Both are genuinely good men, even if it is misguided at first. But you can tell how they do deeply care for Feyre and their people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent and Alcohol

Minor: Transphobia and War

Sexual abuse towards women

Towards the end of the book Feyre is stripped naked and painted from the neck down and only given a shear cloth to cover herself. She is taken to a party this way and coerced to dance for all to see. This happens every night for a couple of months. While it is explained in great detail the first time it slowly becomes common place and not mentioned as much, but it is still happening over several chapters.

paulinahaum's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

wishbea's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Very entertaining and engaging, an intriguing world with interesting characters. Writing style is simple and easy to understand, Maas has a love of overusing certain words like "tang" so if that bothers you you probably won't enjoy this.

Unfortunately we had an entire chapter of clumsy infodumping and the villain was too cartoony to take seriously, so I took a star off for that. Very heteronormative society as well, with characters making assumptions and statements that everyone is straight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

lilithreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and War

Minor: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, and Alcohol