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Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

13 reviews

lbelow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious

4.5

Excellent book. Excellent disability rep, interesting story (by the time it ramped up to the climax I couldn't put it down!), complex characters, heartwarming interpersonal connections (not just the romantic subplot). In all, a book I will joyfully revisit in the future and I hope very soon to get my hands on the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death, Gore, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Child abuse

pip10's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Outing, Torture, Vomit, Medical trauma, Grief, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Self harm, Ableism, Bullying, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Stalking, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, and Chronic illness

krogalik's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Child death, Blood, Bullying, Medical trauma, and Violence

natashaleighton_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-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? N/A

4.0

A delightfully spooky, humorous and marvellously plot twisty romp that hooked with the promise of ghost-filled antics, that I’m happy to report did NOT disappoint! 

I’ve yet to visit York (the setting for Sixteen Souls) myself but Rosie Talbot’s beautifully atmospheric world-building and wonderfully descriptive prose really brought the city and all of its rich, uniquely haunted history to life. 

I also loved the dialogue, and the use of British colloquialisms, which made all of the characters’ interactions feel waay more realistic —it was almost as if Talbot had eavesdropped on actual ghostly conversations, making for an incredibly immersive and entertaining reading experience.

Our loveably endearing cast of characters helped with that too. Aside from the obvious villains and a few of the Mouldy Oldies (old spirits who essentially govern the city’s ghost residents) , I pretty much loved them all. Particularly Charlie (our reluctant, ghost seeing MC) and his spectral, ride or die besties Ollie and Heather— as well as the highly amusing George Villiers, who won me over with his rather amusing antics. I also liked fellow seer Sam whose adorably sweet romance with Charlie gave me supernatural Heartstopper vibes that I’m excited to see more of.

If you’re looking for something spooky to read this autumn, but also love heartwarming found family vibes, LGBTQIA and disability rep —then I thoroughly recommend checking this out. Just make sure to check the TWs beforehand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Minor: Homophobia, Ableism, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Transphobia

analenegrace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

3.5

This was a fairly well-done YA fantasy with well-done LGBTQIA+ characters (gay, trans, bisexual, unlabeled), but its magic system was incredibly confusing and hard to follow at times. This made the actual plot hard to follow. 

Talbot's characters were interesting and complicated characters who felt well-developed, and as a disabled reader, I thought the disability rep was good with a character who dealt with his limitations and succeeded but wasn't magically fixed and didn't just "get over it" like some disabled book characters tend to do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

sammymilfort's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Medical content, Body horror, Death, Suicide, Gore, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Medical trauma

anton13's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Wow. Just wow. It’s not quite my usual read but nonetheless I loved reading it. It’s like Lockwood and co. meets Heartstopper. I love how different identities and people are represented. It was quite the roller coaster and I saw none of it coming. I thought I had it all figured out but boy let me tell you I didn’t. I really recommend it. So much love to this book and to Rosie for writing it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Suicide, Body horror, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical content, Death, Violence, Child death, Cursing, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Bullying, Ableism, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Homophobia, and Torture

pan_to_ffel's review

emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Death of parent, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Homophobia

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frankieclc's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Suicide attempt

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-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

Phenomenal writing by Rosie,
From disabled rep to queer rep set in the beautiful city of York where I live I literally couldn’t put this book down at all! 
From start to finish I was stuck deep in. For a debut it has phenomenal writing and I’ve never read anything like it.  
Definitely a forever fave 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gun violence, Hate crime, Stalking, Transphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Grief, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Death, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder