Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

60 reviews

turtleduck32's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Violence and Vomit

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

hannalizzy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

A great first book to kick off a series, very engaging from the start. The love triangle had so much potential, but I feel like it wasn’t explored enough, though I suppose there’s still plenty of time in the series left to flesh it out. If someone only wants to read this book for the romance, they’d be disappointed, since not much happens aside from like two scenes with just a kiss. Overall, this book does a great job setting up a really dynamic and interesting plot web for the next few books to explore. I’m already starting the next one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual harassment

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

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ali1311's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

This book slapped! There was so much going on, and the storytelling was so expertly crafted. I loved getting to learn about these characters, especially our main character, and learn more about the world they inhabit. I can't believe this is the first book in a series and that it only goes up from here--this was already so good! Anyways, you can all call me the fool for not reading this sooner, I won't mind because you'd be right. I'm not a big fantasy person usually, but this world is very easily understandable and although it takes place in a different world and there's magic, I never felt really lost in understanding the dynamics of the world (perhaps because it mirrors our own so well re: colonization (yikes)). I could say a lot more, but I still need to organize my thoughts honestly--soo much happened that there's a lot to consider. Excited for the next one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexism, and Slavery

Moderate: Genocide, Rape, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

dobermaier's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

Fun! It was cute. Definitely reads for a younger audience than some of her other works, but I expected that - she wrote this as a teen, after all. It was fun to see the seeds of certain ideas/worldbuilding things that come up in later works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Slavery, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Misogyny, Sexism, Vomit, and Death of parent

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

The pacing started out slow but did get faster as the story went on. I have mixed feelings about some of the main characters, but I think they’ll grow on me. I also predicted one of the plot points early on in relation to the tournament and players being eliminated. Still it was fun to see how that plot point was revealed.

Was a decent book for the first in a series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail