Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

93 reviews

sarahmerfi's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

floatingfish144's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Sexual violence, Gore, Sexism, and Sexual content

mollz12's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I have been hesitant to read this book because of the back and forth reviews.  

Trigger warnings are needed for this: sexual assault, drugging, non consent sex, male toxic traits

I loved the fairy world and the fantasy part of this. I was “whatever” about the love story. I read this fast, so it held my attention. 
The thing I absolutely was disappointed in was the intention of sexual assault and non consented sexual acts. I couldn’t believe she added this. 

There is a point near the end after FREYE getting drugged over and over and the fairy says he never touched her below because he wanted to be on Tamlin’s good side…… what?!?? 
What?!???? 
How about … not to do things to her SHE DID NOT AGREE ON. so so ridiculous. 

I only would read the 2nd one if rape is left out of it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Drug use

vaguely_pink'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Gore, Torture, Death, Body horror, and Confinement

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Classism, Murder, Animal death, Gaslighting, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

The sounds of fae torture and vomiting are pretty intense in the graphic audio version.

dahliaden's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual violence

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

rubybastille's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

I just don’t get the appeal of these books yet. Aside from it being a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, which is fine in and of itself, the story cherry-picks from lots of existing books (Hunger Games is an obvious one) and Feyre is actually kind of annoying. Characters repeatedly warn her to not do the thing, she does the thing anyway, and suffers through the consequences until one of those characters (always male) rescues her. She’s portrayed as a tough sexy Cool Girl badass but actually largely lacks agency and/or uses her agency to do stupid stuff that men have to save her from. And speaking of sexy, there are a few scenes where Feyre is put through sexually degrading situations and those always had an undertone of voyeurism that didn’t sit well with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Murder, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, War, and Physical 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

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.

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

indyyxoxo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence, War, Slavery, Murder, Vomit, Violence, Grief, Ableism, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Death of parent, Child death, and Domestic abuse