Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling

7 reviews

sophie42's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Car accident, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Murder

Minor: Lesbophobia, Animal death, Alcohol, and Biphobia

foxwish's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

2.5

The characters weren't very compelling, the magic was interesting and story was okay but Veronica is abusive, manipulative and hypocritical and I hated reading about her, and because Hannah isn't over her ex, she spends a lot of time thinking about Veronica.

Many of the characters are stupid, including Hannah herself and every single responsible adult character that just let Hannah and Veronica wander about and do whatever they want despite the danger to their lives. Gemma's dialogue in particular got worse as the book went on, becoming extremely generic, Morgan was fine but it felt like she was just there to make the point of not all insert group of people only portrayed as being terrible up to this point are bad.

I will happily praise how this book deals with a teenager grieving though, it felt realistic, you can tell how raw Hannah is at that point and her actions are driven by those feelings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Lesbophobia, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing, Stalking, and Biphobia

rain_baby's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Car accident

Moderate: Death of parent, Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Biphobia and Blood

ka_ke's review

emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

These Witches Don’t Burn is a fun read. It has excellent LGBTQIA+ representation and quite the diverse cast of characters. It’s an excellent pallet cleanser between heavier books and the speed makes it easy to get through. That being said, it is very simple and borderline predictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Cursing, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Outing, and Homophobia

neah's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

1.5

It was really slow in the beginning and then really fast at the end. I kept forgetting about characters. There are no POC at all. It got unnecessarily violent at the end. I did not like it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Violence, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing and Alcohol

sarah_onyxartemis's review

emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Stalking, and Torture

lily_books's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Hate crime, and Medical content