Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Witchboy by Molly Knox Ostertag

22 reviews

gt_22's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Very good read for pride month! Suitable for any reader to enjoy!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood and Violence

novella42's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

drtx_bwt's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Transphobia

cat12345's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexism, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Confinement

kurumipanda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Sexism, Bullying, Blood, and Animal death

Minor: Violence

shelbyl's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious tense fast-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

Loved it.  Love the moral of the story.  Thank you to graphic novels for using a clear and concise medium to make a point for all to read and view and enjoy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexism, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping and Transphobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

gabuwu's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

instalovewithbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful lighthearted 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? No

3.25

I really enjoyed this cute story! Thinking about possibly continuing it, but it's a good wrap up for now but does leave it open ended for it to continue on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Blood

readaloud_mom's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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? No

4.5

My kid and I both really liked this graphic novel! We found Aster to be an appealing main character, and his sprawling, quirky extended family were pretty fun, too!

As noted by other reviewers, Aster seems to be some variety of gender-noncomforming/genderqueer/nonbinary/etc., though the book never declares a specific identity. (I have mixed feelings, but am basically cool with the lack of name; I feel like it works with the worldbuilding that Aster wouldn't have the language to talk about his identity, I know I sure didn't when I was his age).

There is also some quiet queer-parenting rep here - on the family tree, I can see that Aster has an aunt who is married to another woman, and his friend Charlie has two dads. I would have liked to ever actually SEE Charlie's two dads, and I would have liked to see the married aunts interacting. For instance, one of the stolen cousins has two moms, and the other two stolen cousins are brothers with a mom and a dad. We see the mom and dad hugging each other and Bearing Up Bravely and so on, but we don't get those same kinds of images with the two-mom family - I actually wonder a little bit about whether all of the queer parents were added to the story at the last minute, after much of the drawing was done? (FYI, subsequent books in this series remain pretty light on the aunts, but do introduce Charlie's dads as visible background characters.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, and Kidnapping