Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

20 reviews

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

Well that was uncalled for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Alcohol, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy and Sexual content

corinth113's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.75

Great series overall, after about halfway thru the third book I got a little bored. The epilogue especially felt unnecessarily long but did wrap up everything in a nice little bow. Love these characters and would still recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Lesbophobia, Murder, Homophobia, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Grief, Blood, War, Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Vomit, Alcohol, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Homophobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

cecilielaugesen's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book managed to somehow feel both incredibly drawn out and rather rushed at the same time.
It did not feel as thought through as her other books, and I was honestly really disappointed. The characters felt somewhat flat and their personalities seemed to differ from the other books.
The plot in this book was weird at best and nonexistent at worst, it felt like 400 pages of miscommunication and 300 pages of exaggerated fight scenes that seemed bland or boring.
I realize this all sounds incredibly negative, and of course there are good aspects and I definitely think it’s worth a read (if you set your expectations right beforehand).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Grief, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Addiction

nadiaherondale's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

5.0

So yes, I'm biased 'cause this series has been with me for 10 years so I will probably give a great rating to all its books, however this one deserves it. I think Clare is better at writing period pieces more than contemporary (or maybe I love period fantasy more than urban). The final installement of The Last Hours is action packed, romance packed and drama packed and not lacking in any department. And although I can't in good faith be aligned with certain character deaths (I'm not forgiving you Cassie Clare, it's the third time you break me this way) I have to admit she knows how to write a great book. So, 5/5 especially for the epilogue, I love (mostly) happy endings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death, Alcohol, Infidelity, Violence, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, and War

emsavors's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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: Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Alcoholism, Child death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Outing, Death, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Confinement, Grief, Lesbophobia, Addiction, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Racism, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, and War

aklovekorn'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Blood, Infidelity, Murder, Violence, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

The first two hundred pages were so hard to get through, super boring. Then the plot picked up but the overall ending was just meh. I absolutely hated the death, that was my favourite character. Overall, just super disappointed in this series, I had such high hopes too. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical content, and Homophobia

ginbat's review against another edition

adventurous 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

usually i love the shadowhunter chronicles, just couldn't get behind this one for some reason. the last fifth of the book was just kind of a let down. everything seemed... too easy? it felt in many ways that the book was almost solely to connect it to The Dark Artifices and not enough to it's own trilogy. but maybe im just growing out of YA

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Murder, and Addiction

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Blood, and Death

catherines032's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

I loved this book so much. No matter how long it's been since I last read a Cassandra Clare book, she always manages to describe the world and characters so vividly that I feel I slot right back in. Although I found COT to be slower paced than some of the previous two in the last hours trilogy, I actually enjoyed how she slowed the pace for its conclusion- it gave me more time with a cast of characters who I love so much and I honestly wish I had more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood