Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

7 reviews

lilywolf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

If you haven't read The Assassin's Blade, read it before this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

cayliehausman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

WOW it took me a while to get into this series, but for this one SJM didn’t hold punches. Action, adventure, tragedy, answers to questions and establishing more questions!

I hope that manon changes sides and Dorian is able to heal and that Elide finds Aelin and so much more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

merrow's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

Throughout this book, the action sequences are very well crafted to fit both the setting and the characters. Some of these characters really come into their own here, and the plot takes a direction that feels fitting but I didn’t fully expect.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

annamary54's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.75

i will give a full review later, mostly gave it a 4.75 cause i didn’t care about the witches until the last quarter of the book

it’s later: 
honestly reading these back to back i can’t remember what was heir of fire and what was queen of shadows, but i’m gonna try my best. in the last one i struggled to care about the witches at all, and the first 3/4 i thought were very slow. this one definitely moved a lot faster from the beginning. i did start to care about the witches in this one, but like i said it took me until the last quarter to really care about that whole story line. all of the books before this one felt like exposition and this one actually had some action in it. i gave it such a high rating because i really was engaged and didn’t want to stop reading basically the whole time. (except the witch chapters, i’d usually use those as a stopping point)

I did NOT see adieon father reveal coming, but that spices stuff up for sure.

i also shouldn’t have read acotar before this cause now the romance is so pg to me, i’m like COME ON LETS GET TO IT, but whatever i’m still reading kicking my legs behind me and twirling my hair. it’s hard to write anything about this book cause so much happened, and so many story lines. loved the development in all the characters. and i’m excited to see more of the ones that haven’t fully bloomed.

VERY happy about the Lysandra redemption arc because i kinda loved her from the start…although i do have a problem loving villains. (arobynn…for a lil bit, and lorcan when he was still in bad guy mode)

overall, i rate based on how engaged i was with a book, and i was VERY engaged except the witch chapters for the first 3/4 of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol

ktmcd26's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Coming fresh from just finishing this book, all I can really think is “Lordy be this book would never end”. The main conflict of the book arrives and concludes, then I have to read about 15 chapters that all could have been the final chapter. There were 3 crucial things that happened in these chapters the rest felt like drawn out filler that needed to be edited down. 


Before that however I really enjoyed this book. It felt like many pieces that have been dispersed through all of the books before had finally come together. There is a clear picture of the current state of the world, the next ste of problems, and who is going to be facing those problems. 

We were able to accompany the characters on journeys of discovery and confronting who they were and who they want to be. And for some of these folks, thank god it finally happened because I have been waiting for it since the first book. I do think that things worked out a little too nicely in some cases, so interesting to see if that plays out for the remainder of the series. 

This book does cross some uncomfortable lines in terms of relationships leaning romantic/sexual when they shouldn’t. Nothing explicit ever happens but weird atmospheres are certainly created.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

biaaaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Torture, and Pregnancy

rowanwhitethornbae's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

The first half was a bit slow but I still love it and it kept me intrigued, the second half on the other hand made me NEVER want to put down the book! This book was a roller coaster and I loved every second of it! My favourite from the series so far.

your spoiler text

The second Rowan came back I literally squealed! Their reunion is hands down one of my favourite scenes in the whole Throne of Glass series. Also one of the most insane moments was when Arobynn put the ring on Aelin I almost lost my mind when I read that scene. You see what I mean about a Rollercoaster! Also Kaltain's death made me so sad I felt very bad for her to be used and exploited. It makes me sick.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Slavery

your spoiler text

By adult/minor relationship I'm talking about how Arobynn literally groomed Celaena.