Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

6 reviews

sashahc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

"VenCo" by Cherie Dimaline is a story of a Métis witch and the coven who has found her, fighting time to come together.  It's part roadtrip, part mystery, and part revenge.  It's view of magic is intuitive and historical and the characters are survivors growing into their own power.  It's not cozy, but you root for the characters and their revenge is righteous.  I'm hoping there's another #book coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Abandonment

carbs666's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

Hope for a better world in the form of a group of weird and powerful women/femmes is exactly what I needed right now. ✅️  I love Dimaline's style, easily slipping between lush metaphor and plain but evocative language that drops readers directly into the story. I really liked how a deadline is deployed to bring tension into the narrative but it isn't used as an excuse to skim over important lore or introduce any characters that are less than perfectly formed. Overall, this intergenerational story of power, found family, and purpose is an excellent page turner. Makes you wanna go out and save the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

If you have Mom Trauma this might kind of a tough one for you just a heads up. 💜

jackie_marion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Dementia

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Violence, Sexual content, and Murder

libraryraven's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, and Violence

valodniece's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.25

At first I thought it was going to be merely average, a witchy road trip and not much else, but the ending really did wrap things up with a nice feel-good bow that I hadn't seen coming but that made all the sense in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Car accident, Grief, Sexism, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Deadnaming, Medical content, Racism, Sexual assault, and Bullying

axkerti's review against another edition

I just wasn't feeling it. The prologue was alright I liked the Mother, Maiden, Crone codename/position aspect that was used through that part, but once we got into Lucky's actual life, I just couldn't drum up the interest in the book and what was supposed to happen. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Dementia

Minor: Abandonment and Child abuse