Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

39 reviews

daizyj's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

Loved it! Not predictable, fun and lighthearted world-building, great characters. Emotional enough to make you care but maybe not sob afterwards. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Minor: Transphobia and Body shaming

jacksons_books_and_music's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I adored this book and look forward to reading the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Slavery, and Terminal illness

Minor: Transphobia and Colonisation

periwinkle_flora's review against another edition

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Racism, and Death

Minor: Transphobia

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Slavery, Murder, Death, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Transphobia

jennyboj's review

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

The blurb made me think the "killing your first love" thing was a tradition, but it's actually a unique task and the family is equally horrified about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Torture and Slavery

Minor: Eating disorder, Transphobia, Gun violence, Death, Child death, Police brutality, Addiction, Racism, Kidnapping, and Gore

ace_b's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, and Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Transphobia

_blueberry's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

2.5

This is a first book from an author and it unfortunately shows. This book was too long and tedious many parts and tell you things you'd rather be shown. If you'd cut out like a hundred pages, it'd still be the same story. The love interest is also quite boring yet I'm going to force myself to read the second one because the ending was pretty epic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Slavery, and Torture

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Transphobia and Drug abuse

twistykris's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Addiction, Police brutality, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Transphobia, and Racism

hansbookshelf's review against another edition

3.75

I have feelings. It was good, but if I never hear the word hacking again, it will be too soon. 

Honestly, loved the witchy, diverse, family aspects, I just couldn’t do the technology and futuristic things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racism, Slavery, Transphobia, and Police brutality

lettuce_read's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Blood

Moderate: Racism and Eating disorder

Minor: Transphobia and Gun violence