Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

48 reviews

bexi'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I have a few minor gripes with the writing but I simply love the story, the world, and the characters too much to give this anything other than 5 stars.

I was excited to read it every night. I didn't want it to end and I'm low-key sad that I finished it. There's a companion novella and yes, I am going out to the nearest bookstore tonight to purchase it.

Shoutout to booktubers for putting this book on my radar. And for comparing it to Howl's Moving Castle - that was the selling point for me. If you enjoyed HMC (book or movie), pick this up because I agree with the comparison.

Now somebody please adapt this into a miniseries for television because I wants ittt 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders

books_and_coffee_vibes's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense 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

I loved this book with all my heart. I love the development and how the author takes time to build up to the ending and how she builds up the relationship between Nathaniel, Elizabeth and Silas. I must say Silas was Definitely my favorite character. He was incredibly funny without trying and I love the comments on how Nathaniel dresses. I loved him so much. This book bought me so much joy and I’m definitely buying the new one 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abandonment

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcohol and Sexual content

mirrorcover's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Classism, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Misogyny, Confinement, Sexual assault, and Panic attacks/disorders

cady_sass's review

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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? No

3.0

This is overwhelmingly okay. Is there anything inherently wrong with it? No, not really. I just didn’t care for it. I was bored almost the whole time, the characters and plot did nothing for me. The world building was non existent in the way of backstory, by the end i still didn’t really know why anything happened the way that it happened. If it wasn’t for book club I probably would’ve DNFed. Now, give a whole book about Silas? THAT I would read and probably love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

raypaws's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

4.0

very memorable and so many loveable characters!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Misogyny

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

imbored_soillread's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

Beautifully written, I was a little disappointed in the ending, but it wasn’t bad so 4 stars it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content

TW to Christians or other religions who don’t want to read about witchcraft or occult themes. Also a steamy makeout sesh but not super graphic.

sammy_nor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

hannahbailey's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.5

TW: death (of parent, child), blood, violence, grief, injury, body horror, forced institutionalisation, misogyny, murder, confinement, torture, panic attacks

There are lots of strong points to this book, including a well-developed main character. The fantasy setting and magic system were interesting and had potential, but they were never fully explained. Sadly what lost me was I felt the book was being pulled multiple ways between grimoires and libraries and sorcery and power. If the author had gone with one or the other, but kept the plot the same, I think this would be a much stronger novel. That said, the grimoires element was something I'd not seen done before and that was interesting enough to keep me reading. Another book I think would translate really well on screen as a TV series.

The love interest, whilst interesting at first, changed his tune too quickly and became a character used for comic relief throughout the novel. This felt strange and unnecessary to me. Although the book has a dark academia/fantasy vibe, it wasn't dark enough to require so many quips from the guy to lighten the mood. The situations were serious but not depressing, so the humour was unwarranted (and unwanted) for me. The trigger warnings do seem very dark, but the fantasy setting and YA genre disconnects them from reality and they are less horrific in the context of the book. This is still a very strong YA novel and a younger reader may not pull it apart as much as I am prone to do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Torture, and Panic attacks/disorders

tulilipz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, and Grief