Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

3 reviews

ezwolf's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I really wanted to love this. A fat main character who's also a superhero? And queer??? Count me in! 

Unfortunately, I just couldn't get in to it. I'm not a fan of pop culture references even in present day stories and there were just so many of them. I was also a lot more interested in the superhero aspect than the romance aspect and so much of the book was focused on the love triangle between Faith, Dakota, and Johnny. Even while acknowledging that love triangles aren't fun! I was fully skimming by the last 40% or so, but I don't even know if we got a resolution with Johnny or if Faith just started spending more time with Dakota and didn't mention Johnny again post-corn maze. 

I think this book may be a hit for someone else, just not for me :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, Body shaming, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gun violence, Drug abuse, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

lily1304's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

I'll admit I got into the plot once the stakes were raised - and without the stakes of a mystery drug and a string of kidnappings, the old teen-superhero tropes would be too boring. As it is, they're a little tired. Teen narrator accidentally gets caught up in a romantic relationship and/or superhero stuff and ditches her normal friends because she doesn't know how to tell them she has superpowers.

A couple characters show some particularly creepy behavior that Faith totally falls for, and it turns out they are, indeed, doing creepy stuff. But at the end of the story, Faith is like super ready to forgive them and make excuses for them? And it's kind of unnerving. How she's like "these people that literally trafficked and abused me? well, not everything is black and white" yikes.

Also something kind of petty that bothered me:

Faith is trying to be a superhero in a collapsing building, and she literally tries to save dogs before people that she knows are also trapped. Uh... Girl?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

malloryfitz's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Blood, Mental illness, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Body shaming, Colonisation, Cursing, Stalking, Racism, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Drug use, and Drug abuse