Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Ciudad de cristal by Cassandra Clare

23 reviews

thatbookbitch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, and Abandonment

psliz's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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

3.75

questions answered finally but jeez that took way too long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse, Self harm, Suicide, and Pregnancy

mxbluet18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.0

Trigger warnings for City of Glass include: homophobia and hate crimes; incest (except not quite), sexual assault, child abuse (recounted),domestic violence recounted, hallucinations,
graphic suicide & self harm recounted; pregnancy & childbirth mentioned; blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking. Physical injuries,
dead bodies and medical content;
forced starvation; grief & loss depiction; deaths, murder & attempted murder; knife violence & stabbing; torture, poisoning, kidnapping and imprisonment; war themes & battle scenes.
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I wasn't really paying a great deal if attention to this book as I was listening to it quite honestly. I've read this one before, and therefore already knew the major plot points before they happened. For the most part there weren't really any surprises in it, except for a few scenes I'd forgotten happened.
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I'm glad I reread it because I do like this series but ultimately I just needed to read it to be able to get on to other books in this series I haven't read yet or don't remember all that well, like The Dark Artifices series.
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As sad as this book might be for someone reading it for the first time, I didn't really feel any kind of emotions towards the events of the book despite knowing those things are sad things to have happened. And I don't know how to feel having finished the 3rd book in the main Mortal Instruments series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

literaryinluv's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Incest, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicide, Torture, Blood, and War

jaynovara's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Torture and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

So much action! Also just when you thought you have the whole story about Jace and Clary straight, yet another plot twist shows up. Or two. I look forward to where we go from here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Mental illness, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child abuse, Suicide, and Torture

zoemorana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Torture, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

alisasreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.75

i didn't expect to love this as much as i did, the first 2 books were good but this one just proved to me how much i love this world and the characters. couldn't stop reading when i reached the final part of the book which is always a good sign for me. rewatching the show while reading also really added to the experience. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and War

sudatot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Incest, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, and Kidnapping

maruu_t's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? N/A

4.0

La verdad que el libro me terminó gustando muchisimo más de lo que me gustaba. Amo la evolución de casi todos los personajes, más que nada la de Jace. 
Saber que todavía me quedan el 4to y 5to por leer me dan ganas de llorar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, Suicide, and Grief