Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

67 reviews

livvmarks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

Such a great start to this series that I’ve been super excited to begin!! Can’t wait for the rest!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tabea1409'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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mrs_bastos's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

The dialogue is confusing, often hopping around, and there are too many over-dramatic, cliché narrations. It’s an interesting world and story, and I wanted to know what happened, but the writing style really annoyed me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexism, Slavery, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Drug use, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and War

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

onyxx's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

3.25

 Ehh no nie wiem... Światotwórczo bardzo ciekawie, podoba mi się też usnuta intryga oraz antagoniści. To główne powody, które sprawiły że będę dalej czytać tą serię.
 Ciekawi mnie jak zostanie rozwinięty wątek magiczny (jeśli się okaże, że główna bohaterka jest jakaś potomkinią starego, magicznego rodu to chyba podre książkę). 
 Uff do tego antagoniści. Wiadomo kto, wiadomo jak ale i tak pojawiło się miłe zaskoczenie. Nie pomyślałabym, że już z samego początku serii zostaną oni tak mocno nakreśleni.
 Nie mogę się też doczekać powrotu kilku postaci, bo mają potencjał i jestem pewna, że wrócą (byłoby dziwnie gdyby po prostu, tak o zwiali).
 Mówiąc jednak o tym co było złe: główna bohaterka. Bardzo źle napisana postać, wydaję się taka niekonsekwentna, płytka i zmienna. Rozumiem to, że mogła się zgodzić na powalczenie o zostanie obrończynią, bo jest to jedyna droga prowadząca do wolności i przeżycia. Jednak jej wszystkie inne decyzję były kompletnie irracjonalne! Celeana dowiaduje się czegoś strasznego i mrocznego o jednej z postaci?? No oczywiście po co komuś powiedzieć, lepiej to zachować dla siebie. Co z tego że potem nieźle przez to oberwałam😋
 Nie czuło się też tego piętna ciężaru, który przeżywała już od najmłodszych lat. Uważam, że to co zostało przedstawione jako jej przeszłość, odbiłoby się o wiele bardziej na zachowanie, bo są to bardzo traumatyczne przeżycia.
 Do tego trójkąt miłosny mnie kiedyś po prostu wykończy. Girl just pick one and don't fuck around💀 Przykro jest patrzeć na walke o atencę protagonistki odbywającą się między przyjaciółmi, gdzie jeden z nich mocno góruje pozycją na drugim.
 Zabrakło też mi trochę większego skupienia się na walce/próbach. Miał to być jeden z głównych wątków książki, a trochę został pominięty. Oczywiście, było kilka ciekawych prób ale były też takie, o których mówiono "no była".
 Podsumowując, nie jest dobrze ale też nie najgorzej. Gdyby nie to, że otrzymałam całą serię w prezencie to bym raczej nie pofatygowała się po tą pozycje do biblioteki. Mimo to, książkę czytało się szybko, przyjemnie (oprócz pojedynczych momentów, gdzie moja mina się trochę krzywiła) i możliwe, że sięgnę po inne książki od tej autorki aby zobaczyć jak zmienił się jej styl pisania.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Slavery, and War

bree_h_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

I read this a few years ago and refused to read the rest of the series because the ending upset me so much. And while it obviously didn’t change over the years I was interested to see how my views of the book changed.

To start, the prose has moments of being less than great, but overall I think read pretty well. Which was an interesting contrast to ACOTAR. I definitely think to narrator was a big help with that as she had a great performance and I felt like she added a lot of personality to it. Her skill as a narrator also really elevated the characters and helped them stand out a bit more to me. Finally, Celaena and Dorian’s dynamic is amazing. While between the two love interest options I think he’s the BEST, I’m not mad about them remaining friends.

However, the book had its flaws that I had a hard time looking past. The biggest was the POV changes. I was frequently lost on what POV we were in as they all sounded very similar and there was no clear marker for the change in POV. It also felt unnecessary, like SJM didn’t know how to deliver all the information from one POV and was compensating with these POV changes. I also wasn’t a fan of the love triangle and it felt HEAVILY skewed towards Dorian. Which wasn’t helped by Chaol and Celaena’s dynamic changing so quickly and feeling unearned in the shift to friendship. Also both the guys were kinda sexist and it was hard to get behind either one of them being with Celaena.

Overall the book was just okay. I enjoyed it more than I thought which was a nice surprise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Colonisation, and Classism

lqne's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

magraymusic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

Some of the romantic and playful interests are a bit juvenile and the treatment of royalty is not entirely expected, but the relationships formed and the adventure is carefully placed in short chapters, making much of it easily digestible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Classism

A great book. Can’t wait to start the next one!

earthie's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

Extremely addicting book, though the writing at first feels very "I'm not like other girls" vibes. It got better, however, and honestly was quite a good listen. It felt cheesy and kind of kitchy, but honestly loveable in that kind of silly way.

Unique in some ways, but felt very much like the Tamora Pierce Tortall universe, both in writing and character development (and even plot, now thinking about it more). Fun in a way that isn't complicated.

I'd recommend this book for YA audiences, or adults who don't mind the mushy feelings of youth.

I love that the book has an overly talented female main character *and* that she is extremely unique in her talents and backstory. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Islamophobia, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Genocide, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Alcohol