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adventurous
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
well, well, well. what can i say. i love me a main character who is so very clearly autistic coded. shout out emily wilde you and i are kindred spirits (re: autism).
ummm this book was. fine? like i didn’t hate it. but i didn’t love it. i think this book is extremely overhyped for what it is, which is:
fetch quest A, talk to villager B, fuck around with some fae C, fetch quest D, etc. like my girl is really doing the same shit over and over and over again. idk there wasn’t too much interest for me.
another reason i was bored was because of wendell. oh brother. his presence made it so any dangerous situation emily was in became practically null and void because he could pull a fae spell out of his ass and save her. like ok maybe we could’ve mentioned the fact he can slightly time travel or fucking shapeshift before he, you know, does it at the umpteenth hour before emily is completely fucked???? i honestly think the “twist reveal” (which anyone could’ve guessed was going to happen by the not to subtle hinting from emily) came way too early and almost made emily AND bambleby invincible. like that showdown with the ice king or whatever the fuck he was called??? yeah i literally was not worried at all. any possible tension in the book evaporated the minute wendell being not only a fae, but a fucking fae KING, was revealed. also complete side note but what kind of fucking name is wendell bambleby. i don’t care about the in text reasons that is a hideous name oh my god. please lord hear my prayers and make fawcett change his name for the next book 🙏🙏🙏 (i am delusional).
i also found the dynamic between emily and bambleby to not only be predictable, but incredibly stale as well. i’m not too mad at the ending (the book is tagged romance so i can’t dunk on the book for their relationship being predictable), but their back and forth became very formulaic very quickly for me, and honestly, i didn’t buy the chemistry! sue me! regardless of emily’s notes, the tone i perceived was that she can’t fuckjng stand this guy up until like the last two chapters where emily feels like she does a full 180 on her opinion of him.
also. emily. fucking emily. i beg of you. tell me why the fuck you are so dumb. ok yes i get sometimes characters need to do reckless shit in a story to have things happen. ok. but yet again, the story constantly repeats this formula: dumb thing emily can do related to the fae appears, she tells her journal she knows it’s a dumb thing to do, she knows she’ll completely fuck herself over if she does said thing, and then she does said thing. like cmon you can’t say you’re this world renowned drydologist or whatever the fuck they call it and then pull half of the stunts she does in this book. and mind you she only gets out of said sticky situations all but one time due to hail mary’s. i’ll give her credit for the festival, she did eat there. claps for emily wilde. but the rest? it felt contrived, it felt forced, it felt like it lacked reason, and it felt like she only did said stupid shit because said stupid shit would move the plot along.
wait hold up. what fucking plot. yeah. this entire book is just emily and bambleby puttering around until emily does aforementioned dumb fuck things. there was no tension. i was only reading to see if she’d stop being a dumb fuck. the answer was a resounding no.
why oh why am i being so mean to this book? BECAUSE IT HAD SUCH GOOD POTENTIAL. the lore about the fae world? amazing. emily’s cunning to work with the fae (when the story allows her instead of making her be a damsel in distress)? magnificent. the footnotes that immersed me more into the story? superb. every other character minus the two main dickheads? ate. everything i dunked on had the potential to be perfect!!!!!! but i have no idea what the fuck happened.
i’m actually a bit mad. because i can smell how this could be amazing. more natural dialogue. more time with bambleby before Things Happen™️. more times where emily saves herself. more stakes. MORE. i can see why people love this. god i am still trying to find ways in which i did love this. because i did. i did have fun. emily is so silly at times i love her because she’s so socially inept it’s fun. bambleby is an agent of chaos and his whimsy was very entertaining. but idk, them together, mixed with The Thing™️, turned two beautiful seperate characters into poopoo sludge for me.
wow was i angry at this. anyways yes i will be continuing this series. i am hoping i am just irrationally angry at a book that probably does not deserve it but hey, how can i declare myself a hater if i do not occasionally spew vitriol in my reviews.
this review quickly got away from me holy shit am i ok? idk i think this entire review is so mean because i wanted to love this so much more. i liked it a lot actually. but i can’t lie and say these things didn’t piss me tf off. also sometimes getting heated in reviews for no reason is kinda fun.
can’t wait for the sequel 😜
can’t wait for the sequel 😜
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Murder
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Self harm, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very atmospheric and I loved the highly descriptive nature parts (village, forest etc,) but when it comes to furniture or a blanket... I don't care. I liked Emily and Wendell and they had some fun moments together but this was such a slow read for me. I kind of dreaded picking it up so many times. I liked when we learned about the fairies with Emily and the footnotes but then they just stopped... I did finish it cause it was something I still wanted to come back to and see the ending but if this is a "cozy fantasy" It will be possible many years before I try the genre again... if I ever do
Second book?: Will not read right now but again, possible in the future...not likely though
Second book?: Will not read right now but again, possible in the future...not likely though
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence
Minor: Child abuse, Murder, Alcohol
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was obsessed with The Spiderwick Chronicles when I was younger, so of course I love everything about this book. I will always be an Emily Wilde series defender I love this book so much
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping
Moderate: Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Misogyny
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Violence
Minor: Child abuse, Murder, Alcohol
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a curious case of a lot of great ideas implemented in a slow and laborious manner. Incorporating aspects of historical fiction, fantasy, light romance and folklore, the elements were there for what many positive reviewers have describe as a cozy and enchanting read. Unfortunately the narrative and tone was not for me and I alternated between struggling to stay interested in the story and being baffled at seemingly random lurches in unexpected directions.
The main highlight for me and the area Heather Fawcett was consistently strong in was the folklore aspect layered into the story. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is full of lengthy and detailed stories told by the villagers of Hrafnsvik, encounters with the Fair folk, and even recapped from Emily’s own research. These stories placed in self-contained chapters are often longer than non-folklore chapters given that the story is presented via Emily’s written journal, some entries being extremely short and uneventful. These stories all have some sort of theme that connects to whatever Emily is experiencing at the time, and the imaginative quality of these tales often surpasses the novel’s actual story itself (like modern Grimm fairy tales).
The interest within these stories is also heightened due to how slow, tedious, and bland the main story can be. This novel has an unfortunate tendency to flip flop between large stretches of quiet, humble rural living and exploration, then suddenly throwing the story into action with lack of transitions. The slower chapters can mostly be summarized as Emily bumbling around the rural village, struggling to do basic country living necessities, verbally sparring with her academic coworker Wendell Bambleby, and doing a bit of research in the field. I personally found these sections to be extremely slow, boring, and quite repetitive. Based on the book’s synopsis and Emily’s credentials as an expert in the study of faeries, I was disappointed in the low amount of actual research and scholastic work she does. Apart from one common fae she encounters near her cabin lodging and one unusual child in the village, Emily doesn’t actually do any research on her own and her only discoveries are all done through her own fumbling or them falling right into her lap. At times her scholastic background felt like it was only included as an explanation to why she’s so poor at social interactions (a tired and lazy academia trope in my opinion) and for her to pull out random fae tidbits and world-building points out of thin air, as opposed to these being incorporated organically into the story. This novel also follows that modern trend of using excessive footnotes that often include unnecessary detail or those that could’ve been written into the main text itself with slight editing.
In between the numerous slow chapters, the novel would suddenly break into more serious and action-based chapters that felt out of place in the otherwise simple story. Without giving away any major spoilers, Emily’s encounters with the “Hidden Ones” feels herky jerky and rushed, going from no knowledge and previous appearances, to throwing Emily right into the heart of a festival gathering and icy kingdom power struggle. While I appreciated the direction the story was going and the plot advancements that I felt were desperately needed, the transition seemed almost non-existent and each step in that direction felt increasingly random and baffling. I spent the majority of the last third of the book wondering why the rest of the book wasted its pages on random rural slice of life moments when it could’ve spent more time setting up its chilly and more ambitious High folk chapters. I suspect this lack of setup and abrupt shift contributes quite a few negative reviews that preferred the slow exploration chapters compared to the later kingdom-focused chapters. These chapters also felt incredibly rushed and the escalating conflict in the frozen forest just sort of ends in an abrupt and anti-climatic manner. The actions and resolution of the King at the novel’s end frankly doesn’t make sense and conflicts with his own motivations at the start of the sequence. A major threat to the village is also avoided simply by the villagers asking the fae to stop it who are notoriously difficult to appease. This felt like a copout and lazy way of just cutting short all of the novel’s loose ends.
Like the story, I thought the novel's characters were good on paper but the execution was also not to my taste. Emily’s character was incredibly off-putting to me but not due to her personality or scholastic morals. Beyond finding social interactions difficult, she repeatedly comes off as a stuck up know-it-all yet doesn’t display either book smart or field smart knowledge to back it up. The novel’s story is basically Emily making an absolute oaf of herself and offending everyone and everything around her, all while also being a bit of a damsel in distress city girl for the villagers or Bambleby to save her. For a character who is intended to be smart, she suffers from the stupid protagonist syndrome where the main character consistently makes the obvious worst choice repeatedly. And that can be excusable if the book demonstrated or showed how accomplished Emily can be when she’s in her element, but the only proof of that is Heather Fawcett repeatedly telling the reader she is an expert and professional rather than actually showing it much.
Popular, entitled, and pretty boy Bambleby felt better executed and more well-rounded, though a good deal of that could be chalked up to the added humor his presence brought. I was about to DNF this book fifty pages in and only kept going due to Bambleby’s introduction that added more energy to the story. Emily and Bambleby’s light bickering was another bright spot for me with a pretty good banter and their differences in morals to be interesting. Perhaps I should admit I also experienced a good deal of schadenfreude whenever Bambleby would drag Emily and make fun of her due to how unlikeable and unintelligent I found her. While I found their character chemistry to have good material to work with, the romance aspect also felt underdeveloped and rushed. Apart from slightly too long glances and a constant irritated fascination with his wavy blonde hair, there’s not a whole lot of romance in the story despite it being a main selling point of the novel. An unexpectedly dangerous encounter suddenly causes Emily to do a 180 on her feelings (both romantically and towards the folk and villagers) which felt jarring and poorly planned out. The entire romance subplot felt forced and rushed, making its intended implication during the frozen kingdom chapters all the more silly as the drama doesn’t feel earned. Characters outside of the two main characters were mostly forgettable, particularly the adult villagers who I often struggled to remember who was who due to having relatively similar names and similar characterizations.
At times, Fawcett’s visual imagery of Hrafnsvik and its frozen countryside was beautiful, especially when Emily is out in nature attempting to do a bit of research or when Emily first enters the land of the Hidden Ones. As previously mentioned, the folklore aspect and storytelling within those tales was compelling, something the main story could’ve used more of. Unfortunately outside of those two areas, the rest of the writing style and tone didn’t really work for me. The story consistently felt overwritten and unnecessarily indirect, as if to give the novel a scholastic edge considering the book is written from the perspective of Emily’s journal. The end result however felt overly wordy and tiring to read, with a great deal of focus on the mundane rather than plot elements or character growth. While I found the fae storyline to be decent when the book chose to focus on it, I felt like there simply wasn’t enough plot to justify a 300+ page book. The writing felt like it was constantly trying to pad its core plot with unnecessary fluff (what some have found to be cozy) when it could’ve instead addressed the plot crunch at the end of the book. The world-building also felt kind of sporadic and random with new elements being thrown out arbitrarily. I found it impressive how many different historic folklore stories and cultural elements Fawcett was able to incorporate in the Emily Wilde’s world, but the actual world of the High folk kingdom felt like it was being made up on the fly and I still have very little understanding of just what Cambridge or academia even knows about them. This will obviously be explored and built on in subsequent novels but the world-building within this book felt inadequate in the areas that count and excessive in details that have little to do with the story.
As a whole, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries was a complete miss for me and a book I probably should’ve have DNF-ed if I wasn’t such a stubborn and persistent reader, but there’s a lot to like for those looking for a somewhat cozy read. The novel had all the right pieces but some unusual focal choices and the overwritten yet sparse story left me severely underwhelmed, resorting to skimming in places just to finish it. However on the bright side, I saw a lot of promising signs that the sequel novel Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands is heading in the right direction with more world-building and research (though any focus on Brambleby is a smart move), and the closing tale of the Golden Ravens in this book had more foreshadowing and interest than most of the rest of the novel. I will not be continuing this series but it sounds like it will become far more rewarding and developed (the synopsis of the recently announced 3rd novel sounds like the most interesting one yet!) but if you like slower-paced reads and fae-focused fantasy stories, let me know how it ends!
The main highlight for me and the area Heather Fawcett was consistently strong in was the folklore aspect layered into the story. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is full of lengthy and detailed stories told by the villagers of Hrafnsvik, encounters with the Fair folk, and even recapped from Emily’s own research. These stories placed in self-contained chapters are often longer than non-folklore chapters given that the story is presented via Emily’s written journal, some entries being extremely short and uneventful. These stories all have some sort of theme that connects to whatever Emily is experiencing at the time, and the imaginative quality of these tales often surpasses the novel’s actual story itself (like modern Grimm fairy tales).
The interest within these stories is also heightened due to how slow, tedious, and bland the main story can be. This novel has an unfortunate tendency to flip flop between large stretches of quiet, humble rural living and exploration, then suddenly throwing the story into action with lack of transitions. The slower chapters can mostly be summarized as Emily bumbling around the rural village, struggling to do basic country living necessities, verbally sparring with her academic coworker Wendell Bambleby, and doing a bit of research in the field. I personally found these sections to be extremely slow, boring, and quite repetitive. Based on the book’s synopsis and Emily’s credentials as an expert in the study of faeries, I was disappointed in the low amount of actual research and scholastic work she does. Apart from one common fae she encounters near her cabin lodging and one unusual child in the village, Emily doesn’t actually do any research on her own and her only discoveries are all done through her own fumbling or them falling right into her lap. At times her scholastic background felt like it was only included as an explanation to why she’s so poor at social interactions (a tired and lazy academia trope in my opinion) and for her to pull out random fae tidbits and world-building points out of thin air, as opposed to these being incorporated organically into the story. This novel also follows that modern trend of using excessive footnotes that often include unnecessary detail or those that could’ve been written into the main text itself with slight editing.
In between the numerous slow chapters, the novel would suddenly break into more serious and action-based chapters that felt out of place in the otherwise simple story. Without giving away any major spoilers, Emily’s encounters with the “Hidden Ones” feels herky jerky and rushed, going from no knowledge and previous appearances, to throwing Emily right into the heart of a festival gathering and icy kingdom power struggle. While I appreciated the direction the story was going and the plot advancements that I felt were desperately needed, the transition seemed almost non-existent and each step in that direction felt increasingly random and baffling. I spent the majority of the last third of the book wondering why the rest of the book wasted its pages on random rural slice of life moments when it could’ve spent more time setting up its chilly and more ambitious High folk chapters. I suspect this lack of setup and abrupt shift contributes quite a few negative reviews that preferred the slow exploration chapters compared to the later kingdom-focused chapters. These chapters also felt incredibly rushed and the escalating conflict in the frozen forest just sort of ends in an abrupt and anti-climatic manner. The actions and resolution of the King at the novel’s end frankly doesn’t make sense and conflicts with his own motivations at the start of the sequence. A major threat to the village is also avoided simply by the villagers asking the fae to stop it who are notoriously difficult to appease. This felt like a copout and lazy way of just cutting short all of the novel’s loose ends.
Like the story, I thought the novel's characters were good on paper but the execution was also not to my taste. Emily’s character was incredibly off-putting to me but not due to her personality or scholastic morals. Beyond finding social interactions difficult, she repeatedly comes off as a stuck up know-it-all yet doesn’t display either book smart or field smart knowledge to back it up. The novel’s story is basically Emily making an absolute oaf of herself and offending everyone and everything around her, all while also being a bit of a damsel in distress city girl for the villagers or Bambleby to save her. For a character who is intended to be smart, she suffers from the stupid protagonist syndrome where the main character consistently makes the obvious worst choice repeatedly. And that can be excusable if the book demonstrated or showed how accomplished Emily can be when she’s in her element, but the only proof of that is Heather Fawcett repeatedly telling the reader she is an expert and professional rather than actually showing it much.
Popular, entitled, and pretty boy Bambleby felt better executed and more well-rounded, though a good deal of that could be chalked up to the added humor his presence brought. I was about to DNF this book fifty pages in and only kept going due to Bambleby’s introduction that added more energy to the story. Emily and Bambleby’s light bickering was another bright spot for me with a pretty good banter and their differences in morals to be interesting. Perhaps I should admit I also experienced a good deal of schadenfreude whenever Bambleby would drag Emily and make fun of her due to how unlikeable and unintelligent I found her. While I found their character chemistry to have good material to work with, the romance aspect also felt underdeveloped and rushed. Apart from slightly too long glances and a constant irritated fascination with his wavy blonde hair, there’s not a whole lot of romance in the story despite it being a main selling point of the novel. An unexpectedly dangerous encounter suddenly causes Emily to do a 180 on her feelings (both romantically and towards the folk and villagers) which felt jarring and poorly planned out. The entire romance subplot felt forced and rushed, making its intended implication during the frozen kingdom chapters all the more silly as the drama doesn’t feel earned. Characters outside of the two main characters were mostly forgettable, particularly the adult villagers who I often struggled to remember who was who due to having relatively similar names and similar characterizations.
At times, Fawcett’s visual imagery of Hrafnsvik and its frozen countryside was beautiful, especially when Emily is out in nature attempting to do a bit of research or when Emily first enters the land of the Hidden Ones. As previously mentioned, the folklore aspect and storytelling within those tales was compelling, something the main story could’ve used more of. Unfortunately outside of those two areas, the rest of the writing style and tone didn’t really work for me. The story consistently felt overwritten and unnecessarily indirect, as if to give the novel a scholastic edge considering the book is written from the perspective of Emily’s journal. The end result however felt overly wordy and tiring to read, with a great deal of focus on the mundane rather than plot elements or character growth. While I found the fae storyline to be decent when the book chose to focus on it, I felt like there simply wasn’t enough plot to justify a 300+ page book. The writing felt like it was constantly trying to pad its core plot with unnecessary fluff (what some have found to be cozy) when it could’ve instead addressed the plot crunch at the end of the book. The world-building also felt kind of sporadic and random with new elements being thrown out arbitrarily. I found it impressive how many different historic folklore stories and cultural elements Fawcett was able to incorporate in the Emily Wilde’s world, but the actual world of the High folk kingdom felt like it was being made up on the fly and I still have very little understanding of just what Cambridge or academia even knows about them. This will obviously be explored and built on in subsequent novels but the world-building within this book felt inadequate in the areas that count and excessive in details that have little to do with the story.
As a whole, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries was a complete miss for me and a book I probably should’ve have DNF-ed if I wasn’t such a stubborn and persistent reader, but there’s a lot to like for those looking for a somewhat cozy read. The novel had all the right pieces but some unusual focal choices and the overwritten yet sparse story left me severely underwhelmed, resorting to skimming in places just to finish it. However on the bright side, I saw a lot of promising signs that the sequel novel Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands is heading in the right direction with more world-building and research (though any focus on Brambleby is a smart move), and the closing tale of the Golden Ravens in this book had more foreshadowing and interest than most of the rest of the novel. I will not be continuing this series but it sounds like it will become far more rewarding and developed (the synopsis of the recently announced 3rd novel sounds like the most interesting one yet!) but if you like slower-paced reads and fae-focused fantasy stories, let me know how it ends!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Alcohol
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed the journal/bibliographic style of this novel! This really gave me the feeling of being back in an ethnography class, with Emily’s science-first but bias-aware mindset. Explicitly journal or diary-style books can get a bit saccharine or melodramatic for my tastes, and I felt like between the science journal styling and Emily’s voice, the narration of this book avoided that well.
As always, I love stories that use folklore as a foundational element of the world, but I also liked the rest of the world building regarding the faeries. I’m excited to read the next book to see it expand further, since we did focus only on one group of faeries, but I had a great time both with the stories Emily inserted to give context to the faeries she encountered and the faeries themselves.
I also really liked the dynamic between Emily and Wendell. For one thing, it was so refreshing for a faerie character to finally not fall in love with a 16-19 year old girl?? In addition to being less creepy, it made the romance feel a bit more grounded and practical, which is important given the heights to which the rest of the plot goes. They’re also just a silly duo, with Wendell being so capricious and Emily so predictable. Also, dude who sews is a massive win so that’s fun!
My hesitance to give this a full five stars comes from the climax, specifically with Emily’s insistence that “this isn’t how the story is supposed to go.” I don’t mind the set up, but I found the payoff to be a bit meh. Perhaps it’s a hazard of Emily’s journal voice, but the whole ending of that tale (which the king was the big bad for the entire story!! If there is drama it goes here!!) fell a bit flat, even though Emily’s interference in her own escape clearly gave the village the best ending to this story.
On the whole, though, I really enjoyed this as a light, escapist type of novel that is more concerned with telling a good story than leaving you gasping from plot twist or weird reveals, and that should always be celebrated.
As always, I love stories that use folklore as a foundational element of the world, but I also liked the rest of the world building regarding the faeries. I’m excited to read the next book to see it expand further, since we did focus only on one group of faeries, but I had a great time both with the stories Emily inserted to give context to the faeries she encountered and the faeries themselves.
I also really liked the dynamic between Emily and Wendell. For one thing, it was so refreshing for a faerie character to finally not fall in love with a 16-19 year old girl?? In addition to being less creepy, it made the romance feel a bit more grounded and practical, which is important given the heights to which the rest of the plot goes. They’re also just a silly duo, with Wendell being so capricious and Emily so predictable. Also, dude who sews is a massive win so that’s fun!
My hesitance to give this a full five stars comes from the climax, specifically with Emily’s insistence that “this isn’t how the story is supposed to go.” I don’t mind the set up, but I found the payoff to be a bit meh. Perhaps it’s a hazard of Emily’s journal voice, but the whole ending of that tale (which the king was the big bad for the entire story!! If there is drama it goes here!!) fell a bit flat, even though Emily’s interference in her own escape clearly gave the village the best ending to this story.
On the whole, though, I really enjoyed this as a light, escapist type of novel that is more concerned with telling a good story than leaving you gasping from plot twist or weird reveals, and that should always be celebrated.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief
Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement, Self harm
Minor: Death, Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail