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A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

138 reviews

sarahreadsromance's review

emotional inspiring reflective slow-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? Yes

5.0

This was not just a story of healing, but for me, it was healing itself.  It feels silly to say, but it genuinely shifted my perspective on the relationships in my life.  Not to mention it had some pretty fire spice.  Not everything ended the way I wanted, but I think that was part of the point and it helped me come to peace with that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Child death, Cursing, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexism, Sexual assault, War, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Blood, and Sexual content

cait_demorato's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Pregnancy, Rape, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Grief

michealasharp's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, War, Sexual violence, and Violence

sp00ky_n3rd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

I am SO conflicted on how to rate this book.
On one hand, Nesta is such an annoying character, and I disliked her for most of the book. On the other hand, Maas has written trauma, addiction, mental health, and the road to recovery SO WELL.
I was also so frustrated reading this because the story was drawing me in and kept getting interrupted by an unnecessary amount of really explicit sex scenes. Both the amount of them and how explicit they were was unnecessary. In some way, they were relevant to the story, but it was not balanced well with the story at all.
How badly balanced the book is had me so sure I was gonna rate it 3 stars max all the way through UNTIL the last couple of hundred pages. As it got to the end, Maas actually gave us the meat of the story and the tension and drama that made the rest of the series so good.

I tentatively say 3.5 stars, but it's a hard one to rate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Eating disorder, Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Pregnancy, and Blood

barocap001's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death

dandelionsanddragons's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.0

review contains spoilers 

I thought I’d enjoy this book more since it deals with PTSD (something I can relate to) and while I felt connected to Nesta and loved watching her development, the book made me uncomfortable or bored too often.

The training scenes were so dragged out and repetitive that I often skipped parts of them. 

The dialogue in the sex scenes made me so uncomfortable it was so cringey and it only got better towards the end when it wasn’t just driven by lust. 

the blood rite scene at the end was so dragged out I actually skimmed through. lot of the pages.

the ending made up for a lot of it so I still give this 3 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Violence, Mental illness, Child death, Blood, War, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Addiction, Death, and Cursing

bugbites's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Violence

cait_coll's review

emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

I am a simple woman, I don’t kid myself by thinking I read this series for the plot. I don’t overly enjoy the characters, the plot or really anything. It’s very watered down fantasy which is fine! Sometimes I’m in the mood for very easy world-building and a bit of cheeky smut, but oh my god it is never-ending in this book. The little plot there is is immediately minimised by their constant shagging. Any tension in the plot fizzles out immediately because you have to read through five pages of smut before you get back to the story. As I say, sometimes you’re just in the mood for simple and easy reading, but at this stage I was bored of the world, I wanted more tension, drama and danger. I don’t exactly know what I was expecting, even in Feyre’s books, the battle scenes weren’t well written, very anti-climatic and honestly boring to read, and thus has not changed in this book. 

I wouldn’t recommend this if you’re looking for high fantasy, but if you looking for easy reading to giggle at late at night, by all means, read away!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage, Child death, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Rape

sarahbethhh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

2.75

I loved hearing more about Nesta and Cass. The story line was fun and the character arc was great. But the smut just yanked me away from the story. It didn’t feel intentional or woven in at all. I have no issue with graphic scenes, but the majority of these ones felt awkward, forced. But this book made me understand Nesta more, which is what I wanted from the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and War

Moderate: Death, Rape, Blood, and Addiction

krinavdb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Grief, Rape, Blood, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, and Murder