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Extasia by Claire Legrand

13 reviews

amris's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual assault, Gore, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Sexual content, Torture, Body horror, Death of parent, Grief, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence

Minor: War

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

2.5

Kind of odd to mix a super patriarchal society/witches with a dystopian type of world. Not really sure how I feel about that. I liked the witchy and queer elements of it but the overall plot wasn't as smooth as It could have been. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Lesbophobia, Blood, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual harassment, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Torture, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Religious bigotry

sav_22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

I very much enjoyed this book. I would describe it as Fear Street 1666 meets handmaid’s tale meets Ethel Cain’s Preachers Daughter. This is very much a deep dive into processing systemically rooted oppression of women, and explores the craving for justice to the extreme. I think if you like June  (Handmaids tale) as a protagonist, you’d enjoy many of these characters. My main gripe is

the underland plot twist. Unless there is a sequel she meant to set up to justify that plot point and further explore, then imo it just as easily could have been removed and replaced with them finding out that the devil is just a symbol of people that assert misery and domination over others or something.

  the pacing was also a weakness but overall it’s an interesting concept and a compelling read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexism, Child abuse, Grief, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Child death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Confinement, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

lillygabriella's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book is definitely not for everyone, and even though it's listed as a Young Adult book, I would not want my teens to read it. It's very dark, and the depictions of violence and sexual content are too graphic for younger teens in my opinion.

This was an absolutely gripping read from start to finish and I read it in three days. Every time I thought we were at peak WTF moments, it threw another curve ball at me. This is well marked as horror, and anyone considering reading it should definitely pay attention to the warning tags.

If you like dark and post apocalyptic stuff, this is probably right up your alley.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Gore, and Violence

annamorgan27's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Torture

ghostlyprince's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

 

I'd rate this higher if it wasn't for the constant sexual content of minor characters :/

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Animal death, Cannibalism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Torture, Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Confinement, and Self harm

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Honestly there is so much heavy stuff in this book it'd be impossible to list it all, this book is not for the feint of heart and if any of the tw's contain a trigger of yours I'd advise to steer clear from the book, it's a good book but it's extremely heavy and disturbing

kryzysowa_narzeczona's review against another edition

dark 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: Violence, Religious bigotry, Torture, Physical abuse, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Death, Child death, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Confinement, and Infidelity

Minor: Homophobia and Sexual harassment

mswarning's review

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? Yes

3.25

Finding it hard to rate this book. I liked some of the elements of the story: post-apocalyptic, feminism, patriarchy, high control society, witchcraft, and ghosts. But they didn't really fit together well in terms of plot. And the F/F romance feels a bit superficial, kinda insta-lovey in a disappointing way. Ending is left open for a sequel, but I'm unsure if we'll get one.

Check out the trigger warnings, there's a lot in this book.. Very misogynistic society.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Body horror, Violence, Death, Murder, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Blood, Sexual assault, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, War, Death of parent, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Torture, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content and Fire/Fire injury

maple_dove'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? No

5.0

Extasia by Claire Legrand is about a girl joining a coven to save her village from the Devil.

I Liked:

• Puritanism is not the same as modern Christianity, though, I find that some bigoted themes are shared in both. I like how this book confronted them numerous times.
• The hero to morally grey character to hero arc! I've always wanted to do that!
• The CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!! Amity to Rage? Hell yeah!
• The LGBTQ+ representation

I Didn't Like:

Hmmmmmm.

I was kind of caught off guard with the revelation of another civilization near Haven.

And--I know I said I liked the hero to morally grey character to hero arc, but it all went by so fast and I was so caught up in Rage's morally grey self, that it kind of felt like . . . a letdown?

Quotes:

"You were not there. He was going to hurt Hun--He was going to hurt Blessing."
"And so you decided you would be the one to cast judgment on him? You alone would choose his fate?"
"Blessing asked him to stop. He would not listen. He beat her, and beat me." I point at my face. "I did not give myself bruises!"
"He was with Blessing, you say."
"Yes, in the barn. They were . . . " I clench my fists, nails into palms. "They were lying together. My sister wished to stop. He would not."
Samuel looks aghast. "Your sister was lying with him. She agreed to lie with him, and then she wished to stop."
"As anyone might wish to stop eating, or drinking, or wish to stop sitting and stand up instead! What if I told you I was no longer hungry, and you kept shoving food into my mouth all the same?"
"That is different, Amity."
"How? Tell me."
He looks away, but I will not allow him to hide. I rush around to stand before him. "Tell me!"
"Because she is a girl unwed," he bursts out, "and yet she chose to lie with Adam. She chose lust over virtue, when that is one of the very things that brought The World That Once Was to ruin!" (pg. 286)

RELIGIOUS TEXTS NEVER justify ignorance of consent and attempted rape.

Other comments:

On the second day's night I was reading, I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN! AHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Physical abuse

Purity culture (graphic), Attempted rape (graphic), Sex scene

midnightgremlin's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Infidelity, Homophobia, Blood, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Physical abuse