Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

19 reviews

atalea's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, War, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Blood, Sexual assault, Rape, and Torture

Minor: Sexism, Mental illness, Infidelity, Incest, Cursing, Death of parent, Alcohol, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Child death, and Ableism

girish0731's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

This book has taken awhile for me to complete with lot of other books being read simultaneously. The world, the characters and the plot expands and moves to incredible proportions. We get to see more of Tyrion, this time around which is brilliant and also we get into the heads of Theon, who disgusts me as he always as been. Sanza and Catelyn's POV were much more interesting and brilliant perspectives to add. Arya and Daenerys characters develop in a way which put them to being most badasses in this series. Onwards to next book which is considered to be masterpiece of this series and excited to start. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Gore, Incest, Death, Murder, and Child abuse

narodiangelo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Incest, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Child death, Cursing, Torture, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and War

helenastinks's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Cursing, Gore, Alcohol, Grief, Slavery, War, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Incest, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Torture, Child death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

tanishqa27's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The book changed tonally drastically in the last 10 or so chapters, an indicator of what’s to come in the next book. But I really liked it and I cannot stop thinking about it. I fear the red wedding scene a lot. I want to skip it and maybe I will. Also, Theon you’re an ass. 
Okay so fav POVs in order (sort of)
1. Catelyn (MILF extraordinaire and literally the only one with a brain cell)
2. Jon 
3. Daenerys (House of Undying chapter ftw!)
4. Bran
5. Davos (the whole red priestess business, my man aged 5 decades in 5 minutes lol)
6. Arya and Sansa
7. Tyrion (fairly neutral on his POV though he’s so misogynistic towards his sister and Tysha, not to forget Shae)
8. Theon (he’s dumb of ass and I really do not like him)
Scared for the next book so I am going to take a few days and then start it 💀

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Rape, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Murder, Grief, Violence, War, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Incest, Domestic abuse, Death, Gore, Child death, Child abuse, Colonisation, Classism, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Body horror, Blood, and Animal death

samflowerv6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I love GRRM more than words. The battle on the black water seemed to go on forever. I loved Tyrion in the show but in the book… I honestly hate his POV. But I love these books and will be thinking about them forever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Excrement, Incest, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

sophia2203's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Animal death, Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Death of parent, Grief, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual violence

kkalicky94's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Incest, Murder, Sexual content, War, Confinement, Rape, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Genocide

cepbreed's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.75

“A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.”

Oh my god. I loved this book in all of its 1000 page glory. Martin continue to surprise me, even after watching the show I am so engaged in a plot I already know about because of the way he writes. The end of each chapter is masterful. Every cliffhanger still hits home, disregarding all my previous knowledge. I loved the foreshadowing as well.

Spoiler

Hearing the story of Bael the bard, only for his tale to come back in the form of Bran and co's method of escape was a detail I thoroughly enjoyed. I was shocked to see that Arya isn't cupbearer for Tywin in the book, but Roose Bolton. Still this tidbit of information had a much larger purpose, foreshadowing the Boltan's betrayal. To think Roose was most definitely plotting the red wedding in Arya Stark's midst. Even Bran and Rickon's death was heart wrenching to me, no matter how secure I was in the fact that they lived. I know it's stupid because currently he is less than scum, but I have so much sympathy for Theon. I know fully well that my feelings are highly exaggerated at this point because of his actions in the show, yet his desperation for validation is really tugging at my heartstrings. "I am your only protection against the likes of him, he wanted to scream." In no way am I justifying his actions, he is wholly unlikeable here, but at this point in time Martin is so obviously laying out his confusion surrounding his identity for us to understand. Like him or hate him, objectively Theon is an amazing character. Another dynamic I didn't expect to be so changed was that between the Hound and Sansa. It feels almost much more intimate from her perspective, teh romantic ideals of a young impressionable girl. Her head is filled with the ideals of 'true knights' and without any in existence she must project onto the closest match. I find the Hounds protective nature quite sweet, but that doesn't change his violence towards her when he was leaving after the Battle of the Blackwater.

I didn't like this book as much as the first, most likely my fault due to the amount of time it was taking me to get through ( 36 days total...), but the second half  picked up dramatically and I become fully immersed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Violence, War, Classism, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Sexual violence, Confinement, Incest, Slavery, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pregnancy, Child death, Drug use, and Medical content

shiveryteacup'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Excrement