Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

23 reviews

kathi_90's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Classism

Minor: Dementia, Alcohol

izzyweird's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous mysterious 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Racism, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

tuuliareads's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

shalice21's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

queenbee2012's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-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

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I liked the plot, character, and setting, but I disliked the different povs because they weren't alligned on a timeline, so the reader knew what was going to happen because one character realized that, but has to re-live it for the other character. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Hate crime, Classism

thelovefern's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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: Complicated

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I really liked this book! The representation of non-stright white people was refreshing! Every single character was either BIPOC, LGBT, non binary or a mix of all 3. Elves, Fae, magic and mystical creatures, What's not to love? 

Also, the using a drum as a weapon kinda broke my brain at first but it was a really cool twist on the normal use of bows or swords in most fantasy stories. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Murder, War, Classism

Minor: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Vomit, Dementia

allthetrees's review against another edition

3.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I was yelling at the characters at the end about:

How dense are the elves to have never put it together that the new Crescent army battle magic was the Fae, and that they obviously were involved in the war aboveground? And how did they not know Komi was the Two Bladed Tyrant!

There wasn't too many surprises in the book , but I appreciated that it wasn't complex which made it easy to keep up with and fun to make predictions. And then satisfying when those predictions came true.

A little too much warmongering in the book for my taste though, Yeeran drives me nuts with this.

Also enemy to lover storylines just don't cut it for me.

Also just give me a story about Golan, I could stop here with everyone else's story lol. 

Actually, I still want to know why Pila wants to return to the "Elven" lands with Yeeran. Who is this obeah? And where is the last human? They got to be around still too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, War

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Classism

ayeitsdaye's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, War

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Racism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Dementia, Trafficking

ellen_is_reading's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional funny tense 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Infidelity, Dementia, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Alcohol

schavay's review against another edition

4.0

emotional slow-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

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The book starts out pretty slow. Developments later on tie more importance to earlier details. There's 2-3 characters the book follows and they each have a unique perspective and story. There's political intrigue but at a distance from the main characters who are not pulling any of the strings. There's several detailed sexually explicit scenes between enthusiastically consenting adults. Queerness is an accepted and nearly assumed facet. Strong ending for a sequel that unfortunately isn't out yet. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Dementia