Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

31 reviews

nemyp's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual harassment

Minor: Racism

smoothwoven's review against another edition

This is a romance-fantasy novel, as supposed to a fantasy novel with romance. If you subscribe to the "Beauty & the Beast is hella problematic" ethos, this story is not for you....or for me as it turns out. Barf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny slow-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? Yes

3.0

I love Lucien first off, best character of the entire series. The sass and the red hair is just a plus. He’s so selfless. I love him way too much. And I love Rhysand , he’s sassy and brutally honest. Plus he sounds incredibly hot. Tamlin is great ofc, love that blond boy

Edit: This was before I read the second book!!!

Screw Tamlin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Classism

kingkiara's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

I picked up this read because of the hype on booktok but honestly I hated it which isn't typical of me with books. However I couldn't find one thing that i even slightly liked and had to truely force myself to finish it just to see if there was anything worth redeeming it at the end. Unfortunately there wasn't and this was my first ever audible return. In short, the characters were severely under developed and unlikeable. The plot was barely there & honestly that part i could have maybe forgiven if the spice had been worth it but no. I think this may be my first and last taste of this author's work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

aziz_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Manipulation, grooming.

roosveld's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

sammymilfort's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.0

I have a lot of thoughts on this novel

TW: Sexual assault, violence, ableism, branding of a person, emotional manipulation

First, I did not love it, I did not hate it, simply fell in the middle for me. I think Tamlin and Feyre are cute together, but I did not feel a fiery passion in their love or connection. I truly sympathize with Feyre's situation in having the immense pressure to be the sole provider for her family and having to parent her father instead of her being cared for should not be the case for a 19 year old.

I recognize the problems of this work in the themes not matching up with today's ideal views and understand why it is controversial. My problem with this book was not only the casual use of ableism when discussing her father as "weak" or "crippled". I did not like how SJM tackled the subject of sexual assault in this book, along with branding.

SPOILERS- I kept thinking in my mind how can are they going to make Rhysand so redeemable that we throw away all the trauma and cruelty he put on Feyre. This High Fae literally sexualized and branded her to him and I don't care if it was part of his plan in the plot, it was just painful to read and is unforgivable in my mind. I see the charm with Rhysand and definitely think he is an interesting character and I like the dynamic he brings with Lucien and Tamlin.

Feyre for me made horrible decisions at times due to her pride, and you know what she is a 19 year old trying to survive, so I understand, but it was painful to read. I slapped my palm so many times when Lucien or Tamlin would tell her not to do something for her own safety, AND SHE WAS LIKE NOPE I DO MY OWN THING

Favorite Parto HOW COME NO ONE EVER MENTIONS THE ENTERTAINMENT OF FEYRE GETTING CHASED BY A WORM, HIGHLIGHT FOR ME HONESTLY

My favorite character is Lucien and we will soon see if that changes

I liked SJM's writing style and how it flowed, but I wish she would show intricate details of the story plot slowly instead of just having a three page character monologue of explanation.

Honestly a solid start to a series and I am intrigued to see how it continues!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

ikmussie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Genocide, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

sabelcook's review against another edition

adventurous slow-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: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Misogyny, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

strawbaby0608's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

Read this book if you want something adventurous. The plot moves pretty slow, and is very romance heavy. There is no chacter development what so ever. The only chacter that I like is Rhysand. The cast are not diverse, so do not read it if you're looking for something diverse. The chacters have so many flaws but Sarah J Maas doesn't address any of them. I gave the book 3 stars but the second book I gave 5. The age rating I would rate is 15+ for violence and mentions for sex. One last thing did not like the male love interest, Tamlin. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship