Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

143 reviews

mel_littleclarinet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Blood and Colonisation

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.0

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This was a good book and I had fun reading it. I like how the novellas built and added to something. I was expecting them to feel disconnected. In the various novellas, there were some that I enjoyed more than others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, and Gore

Minor: Vomit

kal517's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Murder, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Vomit and Adult/minor relationship

142whoopingllamas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? No

4.5

If you’re going to read this in the Throne of Glass series, don’t read it first. Read it after Heir of Fire— it has the most emotional impact there. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, Death, and Blood

cassidy_rain's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

I decided to read this book third in the overall series and I'm happy I did. I feel like I was able to connect with Celaena in Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight before diving into her backstory. I actually really liked reading all these novellas. The book is broken into 5 novellas, but I thought they all flowed together really nicely to create one story. Of course, reading it in this order is gut-wrenching because we already know of a really big spoiler/event that occurs in this book and have to keep reading to see how it unfolds. Loving this series so far and excited to keep going!

Arobynn you will rue this day for what you've done.

Sam and Celaena's relationship is sweet, though a little confusing to me. Going from enemies to lovers after the event in Skull's Bay, was quite a 180 and Sam being in love with her for so long before that didn't really make sense based on their interactions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, and Blood

Moderate: Slavery

perytonne's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, War, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Child death, Cursing, and Alcohol

timbsy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Kidnapping, and Violence

Minor: Murder, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

tea_cup1236's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

I loved Sam Courtland so much, that is all I have to say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Slavery

Moderate: Alcohol, Torture, Violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Vomit and Kidnapping

Gets pretty graphic towards the end.

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Gahhh!!! Sooo good!!! 
Now I’m glad I waited to read this one after reading books 1 & 2, so I know who Celaena is now, & then reading this book gave me more of an insight into why she is the way she is. And I just love it! I love her!  Amazing!!! 
But also, a part of me wishes I started with this book, because falling in love with Sam & his character, knowing that by the end he is going to die, is pure torture! It just made finishing the book so much harder! & yes I cried when he died even knowing ahead of time it was going to happen!
And Arobynn, I never liked him, and always had an inkling he was the one that betrayed Celaena, but to actually meet him, & get to know him, gah! He’s despicable! He might actually be worse then the King of Adarlan! Keyword, might. We’ll have to see what happens as the rest of the books play out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Kidnapping, Torture, Toxic friendship, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Stalking, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Slavery, War, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

A collection of novellas following Celaena's journey leading up her being thrown in Endovier. 

I really enjoyed this collection of novellas and seeing the journey that Celaena took before Throne of Glass. I really liked how the novellas didn't jump all over the place, but together they created a linear and cohesive story. I read this after Crown of Midnight and I am really glad I did. I felt that I had a bit of a stronger connection to the characters having read the first 2 books in the series.

Calaena is blind when it comes to Arobynn. It was pretty obvious to readers what was going on behind the scenes with Arobynn and his sketchy behaviour. Calaena was too blinded by their past to even fathom that he could be responsible for setting her up. I wanted to scream at her through the pages. 

I loved Sam. I am really sad that we lost his character before the series really even began. 

I am hoping that at some point in the series this all loops back and we get to see Calaena get her revenge on Arobynn for what he did to her and Sam. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Torture