Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The House Witch by Delemhach

6 reviews

emerentina's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Blood, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Addiction, Racial slurs, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: War

kmi's review against another edition

2.5

Popcorn-y but disappointing after reflection. Strong TW alcohol.

This book would have been so much better if the MC was a woman and the romance lesbian. Also if it had been a sober novel. It suffered a lot in my mind from fanfic syndrome, with POVs and chapters that seem to have nothing to do in the story but were there as if placed on a dare. There's an animal companion/familiar that is entirely useless. The MC has a stronger bond with the basil growing on his windowsill that with his cat that's supposed to be like a part of his soul! Also the cat POV are a bit insufferable and pointless, they absolutely don't advance the plot one bit. 
And finally, my biggest gripe: nothing happens outside of the constant scenes of drinking and drunk men. Alcohol has such a big role in this book, and so unchallenged, it's really uncomfortable. The main love interest is drinking vodka every hour it seems. Like, that's called alcoholism, and maybe if it was a conflict of the book I could understand? But this felt like the idea of alcohol as written by a 16yo who has never been in an alcohol-heavy environment. Would have deserved a huge TW in my opinion. Also the parts addressing the possibility of gay romance are super clunky.
Overall, quite disappointing...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

wanderonwards's review

funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I loved the concept of a male domestic witch, especially one working as a royal cook! I'm also excited to see more slice-of-life, low stakes fantasy. However, this was originally webfic and it still reads like something that was written in installments rather than one cohesive narrative, and some chapters with different POVs really read like filler rather than building depth or advancing the plot. While the premise was wonderful, the novel would have benefited from more polishing and a sensitivity read for some problematic things. My biggest issues were with the supporting characters (of which many felt like caricatures rather than developed individuals) and the world building (which acknowledged that things like homophobia, sexism, and strict class divides were awful and shouldn't exist in the world...but then went ahead and included them anyway and didn't satisfactorily address them).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Classism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

jennaem27's review

funny hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

4.25

4.30 // This is the kind of “low-stakes” fantasy that I like. This was way better than Legends & Lattes. It had good humour and surprising tropes you wouldn’t normally find in a fantasy novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual harassment

strange_little_ranger's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Sexism, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and War

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

2.0

Hmm.…nope. This was a great idea with excellent potential and some genuinely interesting and endearing characters. The plotting and pacing need quite a bit of work, however. The end is not nearly as satisfying or resolved as it should be for a book this length and the description of book two isn't particularly promising in that regards. There's also an uncomfortable thread of humor running through it that uses homophobia, sexual assault and harassment, and binge drinking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcohol, Classism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Medical content, Outing, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Blood, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Vomit, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Violence, Bullying, Biphobia, Colonisation, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, War, Miscarriage, and Racism