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All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue

14 reviews

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

2.0

I normally enjoy a YA book but this just felt slow and also a bit immature for the topic that happens at the end which I felt it just skirted over and didn't address properly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Violence, Death, Hate crime, Outing, Kidnapping, and Homophobia

theoriginalbookdragon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Self harm, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Medical content

elliereadsthings's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

“I lean my head on his shoulder and wonder just how much easier life would be if I weren’t in love with Roe O’Callaghan. But, oh god, how boring.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Vomit, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Cursing, Colonisation, and Blood

Moderate: Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Racism, Mental illness, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Bullying, and Alcohol

Minor: Stalking, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Outing, Murder, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexism, Kidnapping, Grief, Excrement, Death, Infidelity, Deadnaming, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Classism, and Child death

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Deadnaming, Bullying, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Outing, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual content, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, and Outing

stephanelli's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Bullying, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

sifairi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Kidnapping and Homophobia

Moderate: Antisemitism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Hate crime, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Outing

mblanke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Kidnapping

binreads's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.0

i liked this! I will say, there’s a lot going on at once and it does get a bit jumbled and quite confusing at times.

like I’m still trying to understand the whole housekeeper thing and how it played into everything else..

this book seems like the perfect set up for the next one, so I think I’ll probably enjoy the second book more.

especially since they will already be witches, I think it’ll be more fun to learn more about these characters and their relationships

Protect Roe at all costs!!!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Hate crime, and Kidnapping

grets_reads's review

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Bullying, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

e_flah's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

All Our Hidden Gifts had one of the most relatable and three-dimensional main characters I've seen in YA. Maeve makes mistakes throughout the course of the book, some of which have serious repercussions, and is always trying to balance who she wants to be with how she acts. Watching her grow as an individual and learn how to have better relationships with others was one of my favorite parts of All Our Hidden Gifts.

The supernatural elements of All Our Hidden Gifts were really well done.

I loved how the magic system slowly unfolded over the course of the story as Maeve learned more about her own abilities. O'Donoghue did an excellent job letting the reader learn more about how magic works while leaving intriguing questions open for exploration in book 2.

The inclusion of illustrations of tarot cards between chapters was a neat touch. I enjoyed seeing the artist's interpretation of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck along with the infamous Housekeeper card.

This was a gripping, fast-paced read with vibrant characters. I'm looking forward to seeing Maeve and her friends again in book 2.

Thank you to Candlewick Press and Edelweiss for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Homophobia, Racism, and Bullying

Minor: Suicidal thoughts