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Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

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georginathelibrarian's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

4.0

Great story, love the characters, I did find the pace a bit too much at the beginning though. It almost put me off reading more because I felt I’d been plunged in the deep end not knowing what was going on. By about 25% I was glad of the pace though as it made me not want to put it down.

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ellenigrace's review against another edition

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3.0

I loved Niamh and Theo and the whole community of Hebden Bridge witches, but the sheer amount of transphobia was hard to read. Plus, the final chapter felt like a betrayal of the time the reader has spent getting to know one of the characters, for the sake of setting up for a sequel I'm not sure is needed.

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th18's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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? It's complicated

3.75

Heres a few points I noted down whilst reading:

Fast pace and seemed more YA than anything, too many modern references for me personally but each to their own.
This also felt like the second book of the series at the start there was just so much unexplained things thrown in.
Whilst the book did deal with modern topics such as race and trans rights, I wish it also talked a bit about harmful beauty standards due to Elle literally hiding her true self from her husband.
I feel like the amount of swear words was also unnneeded.
I love the idea of queer witches and empowered modern women but I feel like the talk about adulthood was very bleak
The writing and worldbuilding also felt quite underdeveloped which was disappointing
Finally the use of the d slur was completely unneeded

Although I've only mentioned the negatives, I did have an okay time reading this and it was quite engaging but it could definitely have been better.

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axel_p's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny medium-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

4.5

Slay

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adancewithbooks's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective 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

I got invited to review the second book in this series and for that I had to give the first book ago. I'm glad I did. While it is not a favorite, I will certainly remember it fondly.

And what I remember fondly is the way this book deals with gender and has a trans character. It was very in your face when it came to correcting other characters misinformed notions. And quite frankly we need more like that. Books that shout about how wrong trans- and homophobia is.

I also enjoyed that this book focused on older females. A friend group that has kids of teen age. And a big variety of different kind of levels. I was mostly invested in Niamh and the characters in her story line because that is where the focus lies. And I think that is also my complaint.

We got all four friends point of views but it mostly layed with Niamh and Helena as secondary. And I think that was a shame. Because I didnt feel like i was getting the time to invest in Leonie and Elle. I think I would especially appreciate Elle more if we had gotten more on her. But as this is a trilogy I hope that we will get more of the other characters.

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cozyscones's review

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adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

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cozywithraven's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The characters that alternate as narrators are all pretty diverse, but I got pretty annoyed that almost every chapter made a point to label something as problematic. The final .... Fight(?) Was a pretty big disappointment for how it was being built up, and the final twist felt like it contradicted the magic system and plot.

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