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Die Unbändigen by Emilia Hart

329 reviews

emmabunny's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring 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: N/A

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bookish_bell's review against another edition

1.0

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Diverse cast of characters: No

The way this book graphically portrays every traumatic event a woman could imagine enduring throughout the centuries(public humiliation and witch trial, incest rape and emotional abuse, and extreme domestic abuse and control). All under the guise of telling a magical feminist story, but these women were powerless in their circumstances until discovering they had a magical connection to nature.

Also, the narrative lacks any real story and the only connection these women share is that they are victims of abuse. It hardly seems believable that the best outcome after centuries of women experiencing these atrocities and delivering magical justice to the horrible men inflicting pain on them is for the latest generation to be Kate, perhaps the most helpless victim of them all.

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madmantha's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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: Complicated

Entrancing book and concept.

Lost a star from me because the r*pe scene halfway through was unnecessarily detailed and descriptive.

I feel like in this day and age, we have many tools and resources that we don’t need scenes such as this one mentioned to be written on the page, or worse, recorded audibly.

There’s hundreds of ways this scene could have unfolded to make the reader understand what happened without triggering readers and survivors with such graphic details.

Other than the graphic scenes and descriptions, and the lack of trigger warnings, I rather enjoyed this book. It’s difficult to look back on it in a positive light because some of its scenes are so triggering, dark, and contrast the other themes of this novel greatly.

If you do decide to read this book, I highly suggest reading up on the triggers before hand so you know what you’re getting yourself into. Beware of the halfway mark and Violet’s chapters.

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audreyofthenorth's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

I am extremely conflicted about this book. On one hand this book was written well, and I always love some history/woman’s history. Each chapter always had a cliff hanger from this 3 perspective book which kept me reading. On the other hand please, please, PLEASE read the content warnings, I didn’t because I’m stupid and was not prepared for what I was about to read (NOT in a good way). Also the 3 story’s felt repetitive in the aspect of

childbirth, evil man, nature magic

. Which is fine but it’s a lot. But anywho definitely a rollercoaster, maybe I’ll change the rating later

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megdiane's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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: Complicated

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oliviaalbion's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I'm so torn between a rating of 4 or 5 for this book, but considering it's the first book in ages I've stayed up reading, it's probably a 5. It's taken me a day to process the story of these 3 Weyward women and how their individual stories and lives link to the wider story. The themes travel through time splendidly, and each chapter was so perfectly timed with the others, alternating between the 3 women nearly equally and showing them all at the age of 'becoming a Weyward woman' despite the difference at age. I think the power of women was sometimes not given enough credit and could have been portrayed better as the main theme of the book.
I also wonder if more books like this should have a trigger warning as the chapters on domestic violence and rape were hard to read, and this wasn't hinted at in the blurb or anywhere else pre-reading.

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gooberzoo's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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norahhm's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The prose was very beautiful and raw at points, particularly in the perspective of Kate, describing her experience with domestic abuse. But much of Violet and Altha’s stories are told in a way that feels very young adult, which felt discordant with the very violent and emotional content…like the quote on the front “they call us witches…we call ourselves weyward” was so Wattpad lmao.

I didn’t think the witch theme was explored enough for the amount of suspense built up throughout the book about what that entailed…I think delving more into the ways the women used their powers aside from just punishing the men would have better served the message the author seemed to be sending about finding empowerment from within—rather than from a man. Because the culmination of each woman’s journey was finding their power through hurting abusers, it decentered their personal journeys to emancipation and refocused the way they found freedom on the involvement of men.

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