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lindsayerin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Death of parent, and Mental illness
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Animal cruelty
kbaker45's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Car accident, Confinement, Death of parent, Bullying, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Animal cruelty, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Pedophilia
tilde_c_s's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Death
Minor: Cancer, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Medical content
chasingpages1's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Alcoholism, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcohol
Minor: Cancer, Abandonment, War, Animal death, and Homophobia
nozycozy's review against another edition
I love Alice Hoffmann’s writing style but <Spoiler>the way her story handled the boys statutory rape was disturbing. This book is not for me doesn’t matter if the child is magical I detest victim blaming. </Spoiler>
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
amberrose's review against another edition
Pretty, descriptive writings are not enough to make up for the fact that I don't care one iota about the characters.
Also, statutory rape is later described as "a summer fling" and my dudes, I Simply Cannot With That Shit
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
breeforestell's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
chezarose79's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Medical trauma, Death, Homophobia, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Infidelity, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, and Cancer
bookishfaye's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
1. The incest. There was literally no reason for it, & I know she had to include it because she had written it into Practical Magic already like almost 20 years previously, but hated that it was even there at all.
2. The lack of diversity. Hoffman tells such a profound generational story with these books & it would benefit so much more from being more diverse. Magic Lessons definitely had diversity, but this one was very bland on that front, apart from
3.
Someone give me a diverse & queer Practical Magic style generational saga right MF NOOOWWW
Graphic: Animal death, Car accident, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Cancer, Grief, Toxic relationship, and War
samgelbert's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, and War
Minor: Adult/minor relationship