Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

176 reviews

wormgirl's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny and War

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Torture

always_lion's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Rape, Sexism, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide attempt, War, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Child death

Main character has PTSD. According to some it’s fairly accurate in how she experiences the PTSD and this could be triggering.

gibbse97's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Death, Sexual content, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Rape

lmneal87's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Domestic abuse, and Murder

sonshinelibrarian's review

4.0

 I really enjoyed Nesta's journey and the way it showed her working through trauma and PTSD and finding coping mechanisms and dealing with triggers. I loved the development of her friendships with the other girls and the development of her relationship with Cassian. But there is way too much graphic smut that is really not necessary at all to the plot. Things do not need to be described to be present, and it knocked the book down on the rating. While I personally prefer no description, I resignedly can gloss over a scene, but there were a lot and it really just got annoying having to skip forward to actual plot and character development. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Rape, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Blood, Pregnancy, and Murder

sammymilfort's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Animal cruelty, Blood, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Sexual violence

ariel_bloomer's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

If you look at book reviews of series, you’ll typically see that by books 3, 4, and further, most ratings below a 4 have steeply dropped off. This is because the only people who have continued reading into the series are predisposed to like the books. 

Anyway, this book 4 is a shitshow that screamed MoneyGrab to me. Like an author and publisher had seen the money rolling in from the first books and going “can’t we just… keep going and add some more?” This book seemed far less thought out, and doubled down on the sexy bits while shoehorning in some plot here and there. (Hence feeling very much like pandering)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, War, and Sexual assault

Additional birth and pregnancy content warnings:

Spoiler

birth trauma, maternal death, stillbirth, emergency c-section

emmagf's review

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Grief, Death, Murder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Violence

ashleynp24's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.75

Boy, was this a SPICY book. 

I didn’t expect it to be this spicy, considering the past few books having a nice mix of politics and war in it. While this book did have some action, a lot of it was a romance, which I did enjoy a lot. 

I always liked Nesta, even though she was such an unlikeable character the past few books, but the character development in this book was so good. She really got her redemption arc, while it also worked to tell us a little more about the other characters. Her determination and attitude made her a really fun character to read about.

I do wish it had a little more of Feyre and Rhys just because I’m so used to their POV with the past few books and I felt there wasn’t much except about the baby. Regardless, I loved Cassian and Nesta’s hate to love dynamic, and was delighted with the depiction of Nesta and her female friendships. 

Their friendship was so wholesome and needed to kind of break up how dark parts of this book were. Overall, really liked getting to learn more about Nesta, and I hope the next few books announced lean into Elain and Azriel so we can get to know them more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, War, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual content

jlyles_177's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Death, Blood, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence