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119 reviews
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
Graphic: Animal death and Kidnapping
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, and Blood
Minor: Rape, Trafficking, Stalking, and Pregnancy
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Slavery, Torture, Kidnapping, and Stalking
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Grief
- 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
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, and Pregnancy
Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, Pedophilia, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Death of parent
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Aelin reaches an all-time goody two shoes standard of Mary Sueness and awkward dialogue in this novel where so much of the action happens after the fact and the characters can't stop farting out awful, cringe-worthy one-liners.
It's honestly insulting how much the book is absorbed with how *amazing* Aelin is, and gives the bare minimum psychological processing to enslavement and war and the fallout of living through it all. I get it, Maas doesn't want to talk about it because she just wants to show how powerful and generous Aelin is, and how attractive (?) Rowan is. But it's a book about war. Make it about war, please. Anything else is insulting.
And should I even get into (again) how hypocritical this book is? Aelin (and the tone of the book) makes a big statement about who can be forgiven for being enslaved, and then goes ahead and blames someone for being enslaved because she never liked them. Yet again, the book presents a certain argument about inclusion or forgiveness or hope, but then only offers that to a select group of Maas' choosing. (I'm being vague for spoilers). Don't promote one thing and the in the very fabric of your book fail to do that very thing that the characters become so high and mighty about. The same thing happened in ACOTAR.
I'm tired of these half-assed books.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Murder
Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
- 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? No
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Blood, and Trafficking
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, and Stalking
Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, and Death of parent
Did not finish book.
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Physical abuse
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia, and Grief
Minor: Cancer, Death, Drug use, and Fatphobia