Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

193 reviews

rowstream's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, and Slavery

Minor: Drug use and Death of parent

brotziege's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

2.75

My friend told me to not take it as a masterpiece, but for what it is: Faery Smut. And with that in mind, I was less disappointed by it, even though I still think the same story could have been told in about half the amount of pages. Overall it was alright, but very slow paced and I needed a long time to get over myself and finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

skbat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Confinement, Murder, Death, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Grief, Slavery, and Body horror

saturnpersonified's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abandonment, Excrement, and Vomit

sgrunwald96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

I’m really torn on this one. For most of it it was a fun read with action mixed with a touch of tawdry romance and a good amount of folk lore, but I was really turned off by the glaring and underemphasized issues with consent.

Spoiler

She’s drugged and then hyper sexualized and publicly debased. The perpetrator “owns her” and admits he only doesn’t rape her so he can keep that as a bargaining chip. Somehow this is painted as a redeeming quality in him? They give him a redemption arc that ruined the book for me. I don’t want to be on the side of abusers.

Truly I think the consent issues ruined this book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Death

thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I know I’m like 10 years late to reading this but I was totally fine being ~not like the other book girlies~ and refusing to read this series because everyone else was obsessed with it. And for what? To act like that somehow made me better? Perhaps for a time it soothed me to roll my eyes at talk of faerie romance and all the tedious world building of courts and magic and such… except why? Literally why. Why do I do this to myself. I love Twilight, The Hunger Games—I jumped on those bandwagons early on, so why did I put this one off for so long just to inevitably devour it?? 

Yeah fantasy isn’t usually my thingggggg but people change!!! 

✨ she’s a High Fae girly now!!!!! ✨ (Please read this next line in that one voice from Shrek) ANYTHING FOR YOU, MY LORD!!! 

Anyway, Feyre is an awesome protagonist and I’m so looking forward to what next awaits her in Prythian…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, War, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Drug use

Minor: Cursing

dreamwrapt's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

Where to begin... this was just horrible. Literally a remix of Twilight. I don't get why this is popular. Read something better written, please. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual content, War, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Eating disorder, Slavery, Blood, Classism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

tiffyd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, Murder, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit, Excrement, Alcohol, and Death of parent

lqne's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Torture, Sexual content, Classism, Slavery, Body shaming, Confinement, War, Vomit, Murder, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Excrement, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

msvernier's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Torture