Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

28 reviews

daisyfont's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Torture, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment and Death of parent

atlantiareads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Alcohol, War, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Blood, Abandonment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Gore, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

jaelaheath's review

dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-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

2.0

I either LOVE sjm books or don’t like them. I didn’t like this book. Hot take, I know. 

First I want to talk about the few things that I really liked about this book…

Nesta. I hated Nesta before this book, and while her perspective doesn’t justify some of the things that she has done, it makes sense. Like the whole situation with their childhood and her resentment towards her father, mwah. Her character growth and realizing that she is not the mistakes she has made, i have grown to honestly love her. 

The house, I think it is absolutely beautiful that Nesta

Spoiler

a  death god of sorts

brings the house to life. And the fact that sjm included the darkness in the house, it was so poetic and beautiful.

Spoiler

the rite, I liked the dynamic of fortified female friendship, the girls showing how badass they’d trained to become, and the sacrifices they made for each other. First friendship ever fully developed in this series in my opinion

And thats it. Literally.

Now for what I HATED.

The sex scenes were literally jump scares, Nesta always compares his dick to a sword?? At one point she literally describes their sex as impaling herself.. I’m sorry please it was so bad. My vagina literally sewed itself shut reading that. SJM needs an anatomy class too I’m pretty sure because the way she describes breasts… you’d think she doesn’t have any of her own. Not to mention, that it did not make sense. One second Cassian would say “I love Nesta, she destroyed me” the next scene he was saying “her ass is on display for me” to telling her that everyone hates her?? Like Jesus, pick one. Are you in love with her, is she an object, or do you hate her? So poorly written. 

Also, SJM is SO bad at writing villains, the villain was boring, flat, and pointless. Every female villain she rights is exactly this, so sooooooo boring. And then every male villain? A rapist. Why are there so many rapists in this world? (I know it’s kind of accurate, but seriously get more creative)

And her hero’s??????????? Almost worse. She creates these beautiful powers and women who are so badass and powerful and then she just rips it away before it’s even good. Like Amren??

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and Nesta, develops her powers and learns to hone her strength and be selfless, and then just gives it away?? I get saving Feyre after Feyre has done so much to save Nesta BUT, the one things “the mother” gives her back is an Illyrian birth canal? Spare me.

I just want to see one powerful woman stay a powerful woman.

Rhysand… god this book RUINED rhysand for me. He’s so “I love women’ and letting them make choices” but then

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literally withholds important medical information from Feyre about the fact that her baby could literally kill her?? And then basically threatens to kill Nesta for telling her??

So so bad, and he’s just straight up a “moody bastard” as described. A straight up dick. 

In fact the entire inner circle pissed me off in this book. Hopefully Nesta is just an unreliable narrator but they were all such dicks omg. Even Cassian the “love interest”.


SJM is so predictable with her endings it’s TIRING.

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Yet another ending where there are no real consequences, no one of any importance actually dies, so no I will never believe that any one is going to stay dead in these damned books. It’s not that I want the characters to die, but God don’t put them in dire circumstances time and time again if you are never going to kill anyone. If Nesta had sacrificed her life for Emerie and Gwyn or for Feyre and the baby, this would’ve been so much better 

 
Anyways this book was bad. And had far too many pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Sexual content, Murder, Gore, Alcoholism, Addiction, Abandonment, and Death of parent

prettynerdy3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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: Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexism, War, Torture, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Rape, Torture, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Sexual assault

theatomicblonde22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Reflecting on my journey with this whole series, I've come to the conclusion that I do not, nor have I ever, loved these books. I reread some of my reviews from the previous installments and my feelings have ultimately been lukewarm. One of the reasons I put this off for so long is because of that lack of enthusiasm. I’ll admit I was too stubborn to just dnf it at about 54%. I also would’ve felt guilty since my friend who originally asked me to read the series said this was her favorite so far, and that she believed it would become my favorite as well. Unfortunately not. I might have to cut my losses with this series after this. Dedicating all this time to reading something I don’t absolutely love feels like a waste.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicidal thoughts

emhaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, War, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Rape, Miscarriage, Death, Sexual assault, Murder, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Terminal illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pedophilia and Torture

allisonbrooke's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, War, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

emmarie's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.25

This is a good book; you grow to love Nesta. SJM’s depiction of PTSD is all too realistic. It’s oddly reassuring to see. I very much would like to read the original books with this knowledge of Nesta (and Cassian) as I believe they would be different. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment

eli_ravioli_'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Child abuse, Death, Hate crime, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, War, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

megcarrick's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Miscarriage, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Sexual assault, War, Cursing, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Addiction, Body shaming, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment