Reviews tagging 'Death'

Outlawed by Anna North

118 reviews

taylordmccabe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• 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: Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

The premise of the book is about a society in which women unable to conceive are executed as witches; context is in an alternate US Western. Also there are multiple references to an epidemic that occurred before the beginning of the book.

kingweirdo's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It's actually every bit as good as "a feminist western about reproductive rights and gender" sounds.

It also really worked for me, since the enigmatic third-person hero and leader is a bipolar, nonbinary person (not that the book uses those words) and the story is set in the Powder River Basin.

... I'm a bipolar nonbinary person who was born in the Powder River Basin. 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Police brutality

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Blood, and Medical content

mmqin's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Infertility

Minor: Rape

sarahkate22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infertility, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, and Violence

katherinenzr's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

 

Outlawed is a fast-pace alternative western perfect for fans of Upright Women Wanted. Set in a world where sickness ravaged the United States in the late 1700’s, killing much of the population and making reproduction almost sacred, Ada flees from her hometown, to a convent, and eventually to the Hole in the Wall gang after being accused of witchcraft for her barrenness. I do wish this book had spent a little more time on character development, as it felt like I never really got to know any of the characters, and so I wasn’t worried for their safety or upset when they got hurt. <spoilers> It also frustrated me that not a single thing went right in the whole book --sure, show me that she’s not a perfect outlaw from the beginning or have a heist go wrong for dramatic effect, but you have to give me at least an interlude of things being good in order for me to care! </spoilers>

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Racism, and Self harm

Minor: Miscarriage and Rape

acarter's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book RULED. A snappy, smart look at sex, gender, fertility, race, legality, and so much more. I’ll be thinking about this one for many years to come!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Incest

asha_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I read this entire book in one day because I absolutely could not put it down. It made me care and it made me hurt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Blood, and Excrement

mollyrose's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma