Reviews tagging 'War'

A Court This Cruel and Lovely by Stacia Stark

6 reviews

dxisymitch's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Violence, Sexual content, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, Genocide, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Grief, Confinement, War, and Injury/Injury detail

destinied's review

adventurous dark hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Violence, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Trafficking, Torture, War, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

screenqueen24's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I can see why a lot of people who love the ACOTAR books are fans. It's a great enemies-to-lovers story and the magic system at play in this world is rather unique and probably my favourite part.

It's been quite predictable, the foreshadowing is a bit too blatant at times but with that cliffhanger ending, I'm already ready to press play on the 2nd in this series. Hoping for more danger, less obvious reveals and some more badass moments for our FMC.

Prisca is a bad-ass delight though...she's smart, devious, calculating, brave and she's clearly more than she seems. She's sassy, full of banter (especially with Lorian😂) and someone you don't want to cross!

Very intrigued to see what she does, who she allies with and how as the series progresses. 4 books and the 3rd to be published later in Jan!


It's got some spice, but it's slow burn.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Death of parent, and Violence

chanlo1994's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Murder

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Child abuse

cassandramt17's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Classism, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Sexism

Minor: Vomit, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Rape, War, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

wickedgrumpy's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

So many tropes were checked off in this book.

The world building is interesting and mysterious enough that I will probably eventually continue, if only because it's an easy read with low personal stakes since I didn't really care about the characters.  The banter was amusing and the plotting was fun.  There were some pacing issues, but it was kind of necessary plot-wise so I'm not bothered by it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Classism, Slavery, Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Medical content, Murder, Vomit, Blood, Body shaming, Genocide, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Body horror, Confinement, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Stalking, War, Xenophobia, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Outing, Police brutality, Sexism, Self harm, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping