Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

69 reviews

stacy837's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Misogyny

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Racism, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

imds's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Blood, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Child abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Abortion, Homophobia, and Transphobia

m0czy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

This book is feminist, witchy perfection. 

This book is so descriptive, and the prose eloquently paints the world in breathing color. 

The characters are flawed and powerful. Your heart will break for them and rejoice with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Torture, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Racism, Transphobia, Abortion, and Sexism

Minor: Police brutality, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Lesbophobia

aimeemarie's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad medium-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

This book was unexpected for me. I had a bit of a hard time getting into it, but by the time I was about a 1/3, maybe a 1/4 of the way through the pacing picked up to where I was finally throughly enjoying it and totally enthralled. There were indeed a few spots in the story that, to me, seemed like a natural ending point to the story, but I wasn’t displeased that it kept going either. I thought the story was very well written, and I particularly enjoyed how the story highlighted “alternate” versions of stories or tales that we have, in such a way that highlighted women.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Lesbophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Racism

Minor: Abortion and Transphobia

rockyroadbutch's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Death, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Genocide, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Torture

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Suicide, Misogyny, Police brutality, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, and Racism

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Cursing, Animal death, Classism, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Transphobia, and Domestic abuse

graypandas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Murder, and Transphobia

anaguana's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Homophobia, Torture, Racism, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Suicide, Abortion, and Death

Minor: Transphobia

nebulasaurus's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Torture, Cursing, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

winx15's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-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

4.5

I loved this book and the magic system and the way witches were tied into womrns rights movements. The charachters were whole people with flaws but were given the chance to form meaningful relationships.  I only took half a star off cause i had moments where i thought it should be ending and i was only 1/2 or 3/4 of the way through, so pacing threw me off sometimes,  but it was lovely and wrapped up very nicely and i highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, Racism, Child abuse, Confinement, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Violence, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Minor: Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Abortion