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tessarudnick's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol
Moderate: Blood, Abortion, Bullying, Death, Toxic friendship, and Medical content
Minor: Cancer, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Suicide, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, and Murder
just_one_more_paige's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Grief, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Cancer
Moderate: Pregnancy and Murder
____emily____'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Blood, Abortion, and Alcohol
Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Bullying, and Death of parent
Minor: Grief, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship
foreverinastory's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Rep: white female MC (I think Ivy is queer but I'm uncertain), BIPOC bisexual male love interest, several lesbian female side characters, pansexual female side character, BIPOC female side character.
CWs: Body horror, abortion, cancer, gore, blood, death, murder, medical trauma, medical content, grief, past death of parent, alcoholism, alcohol consumption, terminal illness, bullying, emotional abuse, violence, mentions of past pregnancy that was terminated, vomit, gaslighting, toxic friendship, injury/injury detail, sexual content. Moderate: eating disorder and mention of weight checks, cursing, mention of past adult/minor relationship, panic attack, suicide, sexual harassment.
Graphic: Gore, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Grief, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Vomit, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Cursing
lily1304's review
- 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
4.25
Yeah, it takes place at a boarding school for magical teens, but it's definitely not Harry Potter.
I would have rated it higher, except I feel like it has low reread-value - but the first read was SO fun!!
Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Bullying, Gore, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness
Minor: Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Vomit
katymat18's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Murder, Death, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Abortion, Abandonment, Bullying, Cancer, Death of parent, and Vomit
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol
ehmannky's review
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Cancer
Moderate: Abortion, Murder, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Vomit
hannahlberg's review
4.0
Graphic: Abortion, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, and Medical content
longlost's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
The school life of Osthorne in general felt very real and present - reading this did make me feel re-immersed in school culture, for good or for bad, and learning about all the magic lore from Ivy's outsider point-of-view was interesting. I very much enjoyed Rahul as a character (my beloved) and I appreciate the affect he had on Ivy's character development.
Regarding the murder mystery itself: I have some Thoughts.
Gailey's writing style was also very enjoyable to me; in parts of the book where they would delve so deep into a scene that it would take a few more paragraphs to learn of small circumstances that took place during the scene that weren't focused on, a choice that feels like it helped with the tension & mystery elements. Ivy's inner voice also felt very authentic.
Overall: a good mystery book with some fun fantasy elements and a cache of pain to hit you with when you reach the story's end.
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Abortion, Gore, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Bullying, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief
Moderate: Stalking, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content
TW details -internationalreads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Vomit