Reviews tagging 'Gore'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

367 reviews

caradowson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content

mattimaes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

Surprisingly intense Romance and some gore, but an excellent read 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual harassment

nicoleisalwaysreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

call me basic, the hype was real!!!! a fun read!!!!

i will say feyre is hard to understand as a character, there were some sliiiightly questionable moments of sexuality, the phrase “my bowels turned watery” was used at least three times, some plot constructions were way too convenient, and i have no concept of how much time passed (was it like 2 months or 2 years ???)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Confinement, Torture, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol and Xenophobia

hypocrisis's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

1.0

i found this book at the open book shelf and, curious about the hype and looking for something unchallenging to contrast academic reading, i decided to pick it up. 
well, the writing was worse than expected, the plot as predictable as i remembered the young adult fiction from my early teens. The worst part about this was that none of the characters seemed to have any personality or interests (besides an unspecific unbased interest in *art*), just hollow plot devices. The racy scenes were my only motivation to get through the endless inconsistencies and ramblings of a painfully one dimensional and frankly frustratingly stupid narrator but even those scenes proved to be unrewarding lol.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Sexual content, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

emmagf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Gore, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Torture

shelbss's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Gore, Blood, Violence, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit and War

booksanna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, War, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Classism, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Self harm, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

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

lschuchman's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Animal death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

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