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Outlawed by Anna North

15 reviews

hannahpings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Medical content, Transphobia, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Blood, Lesbophobia, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Cancer, Miscarriage, Rape, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

acemummerz's review

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Animal death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Infidelity, Abortion, Violence, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Sexism, and Misogyny

petr1chor's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, and Miscarriage

Minor: Outing, Torture, and Alcohol

chasingpages1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Miscarriage, Blood, Mental illness, Abandonment, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Infertility, Gun violence, Misogyny, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Alcohol, Death, Infidelity, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Classism, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Violence, Animal death, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Cancer, Outing, and Gaslighting

rachealcroucher's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Sexism, Biphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Transphobia, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Medical content, Miscarriage, Racism, Body shaming, Death, and Emotional abuse

bookishlittleme's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense 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

Sort of an Old West Crucible; as described on the back. I've been in quite the reading slump recently and this was the perfect book to get me out of it. It was well paced and action packed. It features a diverse cast of characters centring around queer people and women. Ada is also an incredibly endearing protagonist forced to swiftly grow up. The world is wonderfully built and lets the reader escape to the world of cowboys and outlaws. Definitely worth the read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Medical content, Hate crime, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Biphobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Infidelity

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Miscarriage, and Alcohol

ejs2000's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Grief, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Racism, Police brutality, Classism, Abortion, Blood, Transphobia, Sexism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Cultural appropriation

nicoleherz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.25

Feminist adventure set in the wild wild west

A thrilling and inspiring story about a woman who knows she's worth more than the fate she is assigned. I loved the immediate focus on science and feminism, especially set in a time where these were not popular topics.
The characters were diverse with fascinating backstories and the author wasn't shy in taking them away from us.
Loved the happy ending, I was positive we weren't going to get one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Sexual content, Abortion, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Racism, Alcohol, Biphobia, Excrement, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Self harm, and Sexism

Minor: Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical trauma

shoohoob's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Such an interesting book! It wasn’t what I expected, but not necessarily in a bad way. It was rewarding to read about Ada finding her meaning in the world. That being said, it felt like the last third of the book was a little rushed and the ending wasn’t super satisfying. I think it could have been a little longer. 

All in all, I liked it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Transphobia, Abandonment, Infertility, Medical content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Self harm

hmatt's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.0

I love the concept of this story so much, and it had so much potential. The world-building is super well done, and I love alternate histories. Unfortunately, I came away with the feeling that the author tried to fit so much world and plot in that these got in the way of both the actual storytelling and the character-building.

Storytelling
I feel like the author was trying to fit too many events into too short of a narrative. This might have been okay, but there were so many minor events that I think we should have spent less time on, and a number of climactic events that we spent barely any time on whatsoever. A lot of these major events "fade to black" as soon as the action starts, and then we are caught up on what happened in retrospect later on - I was REALLY not a fan of this technique, and I don't think it made sense for the "western" genre.

Character-building
We do get a lot of information on most of the characters but, again, it's almost too much for how short of a book it is. What we lose out on, in my opinion, is a more profound emotional connection with the main character. We don't really dwell on her losses or feel them with her, which is extra strange given the whole novel is told in first-person.

TL;DR
The idea behind the novel is fantastic, but it tries to fit too much in. The concepts it seeks to explore are really only half-fleshed-out and the characters are hard to relate to, simply because the plot moves on too fast to hold space for these introspections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Medical content, Infidelity, Gun violence, Misogyny, Blood, Violence, Murder, Infertility, Sexual violence, Racism, Police brutality, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Torture, Sexism, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gore, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape, Confinement, Transphobia, Classism, Gore, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Drug abuse

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