Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

4 reviews

rachtmh's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Wickedly funny and very much a page turner. I barely wanted to put this book down! 
The characters are brilliant, the plot is explosive, the representation is great, and the ending is pleasing. 

You do need to be able to pay attention whilst reading to make the most of the ‘accent’ and language used in the writing/conversation. 

I was pleased how the book turned out for most of the characters and didn’t feel like there were any loop holes or obvious loose threads. 

Overall very funny and enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Drug use, Addiction, Classism, Grief, Death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Cursing, Gun violence, and Violence

Representation: Infertility, LGBTQIA+, mental and physical illness.

the_lesbrarian's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide, Death, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Grief

Minor: Classism and Animal death

relin's review

I really enjoyed the characters but struggled with the pacing and writing style around this point where I noticed I was setting it down frequently. Picking it back up again got harder each time, but I had to read the ending to see what happened. I did skip ahead so I could have that conclusion even though I was missing some key parts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child death, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Animal death, Blood, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Addiction, Abandonment, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

There is also attempted

sorocide

that is not accomplished.

eamily's review

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Classism, Death, Drug use, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Torture, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Vomit, Infidelity, Body horror, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Cursing, and Forced institutionalization