Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

221 reviews

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense 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? N/A

5.0

My name is Hailey Friggin Williams.

And I will not be afraid…. 

CAUSE IVE OFFICIALLY FINISHED READING THROUGH THE SJM UNIVERSE AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO COPE WITH IT😭

Holy shit monkeys. WOW. Just… wow…. 

I feel like I adored all of the SJM sagas but Throne of Glass really got me feeling lots of feelings. It was a slow burn love story between me and the series because it started off being real meh and turned into one of my all time fav series. I loved it. Seriously. I’m gonna force anyone who will listen to me to read it. 

Onto Kingdom of Ash in particular: 

This finale was epic. So much heart was put into it and the war and chaos and grief aspects were beautifully done. For a series with a crazy amount of characters, all of their stories were all lovingly ended and tied with a bow. Even Aedion, whom I shan’t punch. (I’ve forgiven his antics) 

The sense of peace and hope this book ended with… TEARS!!! So many tears were shed throughout, though. And even though I believe the ending was perfect I STILL WANT MORE DAMMIT! 

I want an entire epilogue book that’s written 10 years in the future cause I wanna check on everybody and see how they’re all doing! They deserve a happy book like ACOTAR got with frost and starlight. 

In conclusion, I’m gonna miss these characters very very much. 

Anywho, I’m distraught. Bye. ✌️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Torture, Pregnancy, Confinement, Gore, Sexual content, War, Animal death, and Violence

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Xenophobia

ashleighrobin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

What a way to wrap up this series. Even though this is almost 1000 pages, I still feel like l some characters didn’t get the storyline and wrap up that they deserved.

The battle between Maeve and aelin is what is knocking this from a 5 star for me, because it’s “it was all an illusion” was kind of convoluted imo. I understand why she wrote it like that bc of Maeve’s valg powers, but still I don’t love it.

also enjoyed some of the crossovers between acotar and cc (like the glow worms!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Grief, and Gore

lauren_drinkard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, War, Torture, and Death

aammeess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Confinement, Kidnapping, Torture, and War

Moderate: Infertility, Classism, and Grief

Minor: Colonisation and Animal death

marissaren's review

dark inspiring 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: Torture

lianareadsromantasy's review

adventurous challenging emotional 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? N/A

5.0

Such an epic, mind-blowing last journey.
I am devastated that it has come to an end... This series has made me feel so much.
Aelin is for real my favorite FMC of all time. She is so strong, the brightest flame, I love her with all my heart. Her journey was so heartbreaking but amazing. She never gave up. 

This book is filled with war, the battle against Erawan and his Valg army. It's very well structured. Seperate wars are colliding into 1 final battle which made it really interesting because a big part of this book is a going-on war. The emotions throughout the book are so real. Their fear, despair, love, friendship, unwaver, dedication,.... It's a rollercoaster and it has made me smile, sob and ugly cry. 

Beautiful story, astonishingly written, unforgettable characters. 
UTTERLY DEVASTATING but so enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, and War

Moderate: Slavery

hitheremynameislisa'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Ouch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, War, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Death of parent

amber_lfor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

I would rate it higher if I could...I feel this is the best book in the series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Trafficking, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Gore, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Murder, Medical trauma, War, and Slavery

ernis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

While I enjoyed most of all the TOG, I preferred the beginning of the TOG series to its ending. A lot of the latter books, including this one and TOD, felt drawn out. I felt like this one could've been reduced by at least 1/3; while Maas writes great prose and descriptions, I feel like a lot of it was unnecessary. The conclusion felt rather unrealistic to me, though there were scenes with some of the minor heros that I really liked.
I personally had a hard time with the gory descriptions that were so prevalent in the first 200 pages of the novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and War