Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Reino de Cinzas by Sarah J. Maas

56 reviews

tiredtori's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

karinreadsalot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5

My only complaint was that this book was so long. But I understand it needed to tie up all the loose ends. So beautifully written and the perfect end to a great series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, and Death of parent

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense 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? N/A

5.0

My name is Hailey Friggin Williams.

And I will not be afraid…. 

CAUSE IVE OFFICIALLY FINISHED READING THROUGH THE SJM UNIVERSE AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO COPE WITH IT😭

Holy shit monkeys. WOW. Just… wow…. 

I feel like I adored all of the SJM sagas but Throne of Glass really got me feeling lots of feelings. It was a slow burn love story between me and the series because it started off being real meh and turned into one of my all time fav series. I loved it. Seriously. I’m gonna force anyone who will listen to me to read it. 

Onto Kingdom of Ash in particular: 

This finale was epic. So much heart was put into it and the war and chaos and grief aspects were beautifully done. For a series with a crazy amount of characters, all of their stories were all lovingly ended and tied with a bow. Even Aedion, whom I shan’t punch. (I’ve forgiven his antics) 

The sense of peace and hope this book ended with… TEARS!!! So many tears were shed throughout, though. And even though I believe the ending was perfect I STILL WANT MORE DAMMIT! 

I want an entire epilogue book that’s written 10 years in the future cause I wanna check on everybody and see how they’re all doing! They deserve a happy book like ACOTAR got with frost and starlight. 

In conclusion, I’m gonna miss these characters very very much. 

Anywho, I’m distraught. Bye. ✌️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, War, and Injury/Injury detail

aammeess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Animal death and Colonisation

amber_lfor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

I would rate it higher if I could...I feel this is the best book in the series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

spatterson7's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Self harm, Slavery, and Alcohol

anguawolf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

dalek_caan's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

Wow. What an ending. This is a series I would happily start over from book one having just put down the final book. I cried several times. Great writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

hopelessromanticbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚…

This book was a struggle for me to get through. I believe it would’ve been better for this book to have split into two books, as I found it to be slow moving and very long.

I already knew quite a lot of what was going to happen in this book, so to be honest I was dreading the read. I was originally going to read it as a kindle book but switched to audio as I couldn’t get into the story.

I enjoyed the multiple POV’s that was shown throughout the book, but there were times I was confused on whose POV I was reading next.  I enjoyed the different POV’s in situations such as, when it involves the war, personal things and relationships. 

As this was a very long book I was slowly losing my interest as I felt it was just dragging on. However, even though it dragged on I loved seeing the character developments  as they battle problems physically and mentally.

I believe this book was about coming together as one big family and fighting for what they love most. Whether it’s people, a kingdom or their future. This is especially shown in the eyes of Evangeline, even though she is such a cutie they looked to her as their future and why they were fighting so hard for it.

I did enjoy how there was different locations that the characters visited to fight the Valg and protect what was theirs. But also inspiring more and more people to help them fight in the war for a better world.

I would have liked to have had an epilogue to see where all the characters were in a few years time from the events, but did like how Sarah finished the book by bringing it full circle to the people who first started this series x

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Blood, and War

dreamitallaway's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror and Abandonment