Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

184 reviews

tiernanalexandria's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious fast-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

4.5

Book two of Throne of Glass was exciting. 
It made me giddy and had me kicking my feet. It made me cringe, hold my breath, and pull back. I loved characters and I was frustrated with characters. The bit of romance gave me butterflies constantly! There were mysteries to solve, that were deep and convoluted. It had us trying to figure them out with Celaena. 

Overall this book is fantastic, there was so much growth but still gave us the Celaena we love. 
Mystery, Murder, Mayhem, and loving every second of it. 

So well written!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

emma97louise'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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Self harm, Torture, Violence, Grief, Stalking, and Death of parent

spazzcats's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Grief

marahill14'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

4.75

When is the second book ever better than the first one? Here. Wowww. 

(And it even redeemed Dorian)

Only taking a quarter star because I saw the last chapter coming from a mile away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

tspice24's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

kristanjenkins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

literarymary95'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? Yes

4.5

After 6 years, I am reading this again and I am really enjoying it. Although Celaena's character seems a bit overpowered, I feel that her character (outside of her physical kick*ss abilities) is believable as she's only 18 and still figuring out life so she's going to make mistakes and live as a young and somewhat naive woman would.

I enjoyed the characterization of the other characters and I'm impressed that SJM manages to do a great job with working with 3 POVs. That's no easy feat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and War

hxlleann's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

miss_berry315's review against another edition

mysterious

3.25

The storyline in this one was more interesting than TOG was, though it still kinda feels like a setup to the main stories we will get with these characters. 
Not a fan of

like 85% of the book being driven by the absolute lack of communication between Celaena, Chaol, and Dorian

Also didn't really like

the whole love triangle thing. Just thruple and be done with it y'all smh. ((Half joking 🤭))

I am very very happy that

Fleetfoot is alive and going to be taken care of by Dorian. SJM if something happens to that doggo I will write a strongly worded, tear-stained letter about it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery and Injury/Injury detail

Dog:

gets hurt, but does not die.

puzzling_reader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship