Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

7 reviews

taural41's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Abandonment, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Sexual content

tangleroot_eli's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

A wild ride of a book about the sometimes dangerously blurry line between the "real" world and the world of stories. If you like your fairy tales on the creepy side, this one's for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Body horror, Suicide, Abandonment, Bullying, Death, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Murder, and Suicide attempt

vanidorr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Confinement, Abandonment, Suicide, and Kidnapping

joannalouise's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment and Blood

zimmerlemon's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

The writing style of this was really great early on, it really hooked me! Things unfolded in a really interesting way. My one qualm

is that I’m a little bit of a romance nut and I was bummed about Finch kind of going away on his own journey, but it makes enough sense for his character that I’m not tooooo mad about it. Just would’ve been really cute for them to have more afterwards bc of how loyal he was while she was in her story. But this sets other things up better so I’ll get over it lol

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From the middle onwards might lose you unless you're ready to just vibe. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Death, Abandonment, and Blood

emmanating's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

I found parts rather annoying to read. Nothing terrible, but it is plagued by the YA heterosexual "Not Like Other Girls" lines and characterizations, and some irritatingly surface-level feminism/sexism. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Trafficking, and Violence

hedihenderika's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, Death, and Abandonment