Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

59 reviews

ladydeathnesta's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

I feel like I’m cheating on Silver Flames because I don’t know if I like this one better.

I love them equally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sassylady's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

3.75

The first half of the book, was really hard to get into. There was a lot of info dumping right off the bat, and It was so hard to keep up with everything. The last half of the book was amazing, I never walked around the apartment so much while reading. 

If you're reading this book and are stuck, just try to get through it, it'll be worth it in the end 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

thewarbler's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

I absolutely loved this book. It took me on such a wild ride that I stayed up far too late reading it. S. J. Maas somehow pulled out another epic series, and I cannot wait to read the second one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide

peskridge3's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

The best series opener for SJM thus far! I commend her for writing an incredibly unique world for this convulsed story to take place in. The political intrigue, the mystery that kept getting more and more complicated, and the flawed but lovable characters makes this a page turner. She takes risks when deciding character’s fates which is a huge difference from her other two series! HOEAB had lots of twists to unravel, but even the slow moments didn’t feel like the book dragged. Incredibly excited to see where this story goes!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug abuse and Suicide

caseyf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gore, Slavery, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual content

dontwritedown's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

"Through love, all is possible."

"Message me when you're home safe."
"I'm home."

When I read Sarah J. Maas, I'm not looking for life-long messages that will have me thinking about my place in the universe and the meaning of love. But this book did exactly that.

However, I will admit that this is a very hesitant 5/5 rating. Not only do I think I'm a little to exuberant with the rating but I will admit that the book starts really slow due to a lot of world-building and that I nearly DNF'D the book about 120 pages from the ending due to an incident with a dog-like character. 

The ending though will take you through a rollercoaster of emotion and make sure you have a good few hours just to read as I was at work when the biggest plot twist came down and was reading between errands and could not put the book down.

Onward to the last book of this 15 long charade until January.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

kenziereads11's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

This is the best book SJM has written! I loved all of it. I really loved how SJM portrayed deep grief and friendship. The ending killed me though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Minor: Suicide

mabs_grace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I’m all over the place when it comes to how much I actually liked this book. I was I initially pissed off with the first 100 pages of the book

like why introduce us to all these characters just to immediately kill them off? We don’t even have enough time to fall in love or hate with them before they’re dead and Bryce is grieving. Also, I was annoyed with the introduction of a would be kick ass squad to then have the entire Pack of Devils be killed. Genuinely WTF. (I’ve read 700 pages since this and I’m still reeling)

. It wasn’t until things really started to pick up between Bryce and Hunt that I started to find a medium amount of enjoyment in the book. This all being said the last 100-200 pages had be hooked, and then absolutely destroyed. Balled my eyes out of so long. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Classism

ashlynnlee_14's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

I read this book for the first time almost exactly two years ago—and then proceeded to forget everything that happened in it. So I did a quick reread so I could continue the series. 

This book fell victim to one of SJM’s favorite way of conveying plot twists: long ass unnecessary monologues. The plot itself was interesting enough to me, with some twists and reveals that weren’t TOO obvious. 

I’m not usually a big fan of urban fantasy (it’s goofy to me when the fae are communicating to each other over text—pls keep them in high fantasy settings) but it was still enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcohol

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail