Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

12 reviews

lauralintunen's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Deadnaming, Violence, Blood, Murder, Transphobia, Bullying, and Death

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia and Adult/minor relationship

theaceofpages's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

Have you ever wondered what happens when someone returns to the real world in a portal fantasy? What it's like to leave the world of wonder and return to our rather mundane reality? This book looks is set at a school for those who wish to return to the worlds that they have been ripped from and need to try to learn to let go of the lives that they have lost so that they can reintegrate into our world.

I have been aware of and interested in this book for a while (I will admit that the asexual representation is part of it!). I went in mostly blind since I wasn't aware of much (I knew there was an asexual character and there were portals to fantasy worlds). I finally got around to reading it and I accidentally finished it in a day (it is short, yes, but I wasn't expecting to rush through it quite this quickly). I had such a good time reading it. The writing was beautiful and I can definitely imagine the pain of being forced out of a fantasy world (look, I'm still homesick for a place I worked at last year and this wasn't even a completely different realm with magic!) The school seems like it would simultaneously be great (others get it and no one will stop you from going to what you now consider home if you get the chance) and awful (oops, you are stuck in the real world now and need to learn to deal with it). There's a bit of a murder mystery thrown in too and I enjoyed that, although I did guess who the killer was from one of the clues. That didn't take away from my enjoyment though!

I will definitely be continuing with the rest of the series. In fact, I'm already ready to dive into the next book! Unfortunately that will probably have to wait until next year since I have some other books I'd like to get through before the year ends. I'm very excited to get back into it soon and see where the other books go (at this point I have no idea and based off my enjoyment of this book, I think I'll be trying to go into the other books knowing as little as possible as well!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Murder, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Eating disorder, and Transphobia

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Grief

hyperashley's review

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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child death, and Body horror

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

ran_sophia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I had a great time reading the book.  The author's writing and narration style was amazing and so was the whole story.  It was refreshing to read this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Forced institutionalization, and Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Adult/minor relationship

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I liked this! A very quick read that I would’ve savored if I’d known it was so perfectly Halloween-y! 

I will say that I guessed the baddie by accident very early on but said “no, they have to be a red herring”… Lol! 

A tad predictable, but enjoyable nonetheless. A really interesting zoom in on what fantasy worlds mean to children, and what they protect them from. Not sure what to make of Kade’s story to be honest; it’s much bleaker than the rest & I didn’t feel we got a satisfactory explanation for that. 

I also feel that Nancy is overshadowed by nearly every other character; she felt like a shadow of a person there only to introduce us to the universe & experience shock on our behalf. this was a book where the main character was the least interesting person in it.

Halloween read 1/5(?) down!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Transphobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Child abuse, Murder, Bullying, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Violence, Medical content, and Acephobia/Arophobia

katemarie99's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

2.5

Not my favorite...? Idk there's something uncomfy about adult fantasy. Like this dark undertone of hopelessness is perpetually present. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, and Gore

Moderate: Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, and Self harm

walkie_check's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Blood, Deadnaming, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Death, and Bullying

Minor: Transphobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Dementia, and Violence

parasolcrafter's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

this book was so fast but so slow. so beautifully written but so devoid of substance. so deep but so shallow. so straightforward but so confusing. so unique but so bland. truly...a kind of masterpiece.

literally there are maybe 2 likeable characters (

sumi dies too soon to really be a main character

, nancy doesnt really seem to do much except get dragged around by the plot,

jill is a fucking MURDERER

, and jack is just...so straight cut) and even then cristopher seems like an add-on, if that makes sense? the ending was also so weirdly executed and i just...dont like how the deaths in the book were almost glossed over?? like i didnt feel any real emotion from the characters except eleanor :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Transphobia, Violence, Child death, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Grief, Cursing, Body horror, and Child abuse

Minor: Deadnaming, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, and Vomit

purplepenning's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Child death, Murder, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, and Grief

Minor: Ableism and Deadnaming

eligru's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Bullying, Dysphoria, Child death, Eating disorder, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship