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Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

40 reviews

barbarella85's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse and Racism

martinacost's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Murder

Moderate: Death

Minor: Domestic abuse, Grief, and Toxic friendship

imds's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Outing, and War

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Death of parent

karney92's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse and Racism

abbiekat's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring 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

Essientially a book written as a giant FU to JK Rowling in the best possible way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Transphobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual content and Toxic friendship

Minor: Domestic abuse

extinctpanda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.75

It was a bit too good vs evil for me, I like a bit more nuance. And I didn't love the writing style, though it grew on me as it went on. However, I did find the story fun, and I liked the characters. I think it also covered some important/interesting themes that I haven't seen in fantasy very much at all, especially adult fantasy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Outing, and War

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

dryadsreadingnook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Death

Minor: Domestic abuse

louisegraveyard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Transphobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gore, and Violence

carolibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Transphobia

Moderate: Infidelity, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Car accident

jamieleepilk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.75

Thank you so much to Harper Collins for sending me this proof. 
UK Release - 27/7/2022.

The first book in what is set to be a very exciting series! 
In 'Her Majesty's Royal Coven' we meet a group of witches who grew up as childhood friends. As a dreaded prophecy seems to be coming true their friendship & powers will be tested to the limits. 

Spoiler Free review. Wow. What a book. 
I'm a sucker for a witch book anyway so as soon as this was announced it sounded right up my street. I throughly loved it. The characters are all (well mostly all, if you know you know) extremely loveable and we get very attached to them very quickly. 
I loved the magical system in this and the fractions of the different covens. Juno brilliantly weaves real day, real life issues into a world that isn't that different from our own. 
I love a book where each character has there own storyline that eventually all comes together. 
Niamh Kelly is a brilliant main character, the story is largely set through her eyes and her struggles. 
Leonie & Chinara's relationship was so lovely and felt extremely real. Hopefully in the rest of the series we get a POV from Theo?
I also can't tell you how chuffed I am that this book is largely set in the North of England. The base for HMRC is in Manchester which was just an incredible added detail, also the shopping centre I work at is mentioned which made me insanely happy!!!  

I'm honestly so excited to see where Juno takes this series and these brilliant characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Classism