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These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling

14 reviews

karly_ackley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Car accident, Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Grief, and Blood

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

katattack345's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

It was fine. I thought it was an easy but fun read. Just a tad predictable for my taste. It is YA and I am no longer that so it could be why. 

 I probably won’t continue the series but it was a nice read. I would recommend it to the youths though

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Death

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

kaylee1957's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-paced

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

2.0

Felt like it was going to be a fast paced adventure with action, and solving the who dun it in fun YA Queer Magical setting, but unfortunately it was slow paced lacking action to drive the plot and focused on the teenage drama rather than character building and the plot

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Animal death, Bullying, Alcohol, Blood, and Biphobia

thewellbitch's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious sad medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

It's a 3.75 - 4.0 range. More entertaining that I initially thought and will gladly read the sequel. Fantastic job from the narrator (Kristen DiMercurio). The world building/rules of the witches is simple but interesting, but I hated

the use of "reg" to speak of magicless humans 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, and Stalking

caitlinemccann's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol and Toxic relationship

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

Loved this reading.  Magic and covens with sapphic riddled through out - including not only the MC’s first ex gf but also another budding potential love interest.  

Unexpected villians and betrayals left me shocked and I’m so glad I own the second as ill be reading it asap. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Outing, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Xenophobia, Grief, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Violence

sarahsbookss's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Lesbophobia

solarel's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I’ll give this one a flat 3 out of five enjoyment from me. Honestly the first half felt gimmicky and flat. It was a lot, and I mean a lot, of telling not showing. Often times repeatedly. 

But! The second half really picked up and once the pieces all fell into place the story actually took hold. The stakes increased with every mistake and Hannah’s reactions felt very real. I don’t cry for books often and twice I was tearing up. 

For a YA some of the silly teen-isms are to be expected. I’m glad I pushed through to read the second half. It was fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Torture, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Biphobia, Genocide, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

aseel_reads's review

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

i really enjoyed this novel, it was super easy to read, very entertaining, i loved the characters, and the premise (witchhunters in modern day salem)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Violence, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Murder, and Medical content