Reviews tagging 'War'

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

14 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious slow-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: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Alcohol, Infertility, Confinement, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Bullying, Cursing, Dysphoria, Kidnapping, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Torture, Animal death, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: War, Miscarriage, and Child death

kimberlina82's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

Absolute perfection!  From beginning to end! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Murder, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, Death of parent, Death, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

sycamore22's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Medical content

Minor: War, Grief, and Alcohol

-Wine is drunk many times throughout the book, and flavors/smells are discussed. No one ever gets drunk though! -A main character experiences extensive bodily wounds that are described while she is captured by an enemy. The triage for these wounds is also described in detail. -A main character experiences the loss of his wife and child. His grief is not discussed in great detail, but it is expressed. -War is discussed, but these discussions are preceding said war.

dizzyappealam's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

3.5

He is super possessive, but it was kind of cool and cute. Suprisingly wholesome ending. Will read the next book. Mystery is eh. I hope it gets better later. Was a cozy dark academia vibe.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Murder, and War

saroreen's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Racism

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Gore, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: War and Sexual content

portraitofabibliophile's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

karly_ackley's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and War

caffeinated_gills's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Misogyny

Moderate: Blood, Child death, War, and Violence

Minor: Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

Started reading the series primarily because I want to watch the show, and now I'm even more excited to keep reading the series! I think it might have benefitted from some editing down—lots of repetition of the same sentiment or even sentence in just a few paragraphs, for example—but overall a really engaging fantasy story. The world of the witches, vampires, and daemons is laid out for readers as Diana learns the details, which is a simple and effective trick for this kind of world-building. Docked a star because it's just not believable to me that the entire book takes place over less than two months.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Stalking

Minor: Xenophobia and War