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Sixteen souls by Rosie Talbot

6 reviews

pip10's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Outing, Torture, Vomit, Medical trauma, Grief, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Self harm, Ableism, Bullying, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Stalking, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, and Chronic illness

ethen_rey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Kidnapping, and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent and Homophobia

kiwii091's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

Absolutely amazing book - definitely one of my favourite reads! Takes a little while to really get going, but the characters and plot were beautifully well written which made the wait worth it. The map at the beginning of the book also really helped aid with getting a feel for the setting/ where characters were as they constantly moved about and was nice addition overall. The mixture of

magic and science

was very well done as well, and a very interesting concept that bindes the two together during the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Child death, Self harm, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Ableism

mxbluet18's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

Trigger warnings for Sixteen Souls include: death, PTSD (depictions of past events/flashbacks); torture (remembered); suicide (hanging); child abuse (remembered); blood and blood magic (implied); body horror/occult horror; kidnapping; decomposition of a corpse; violence and murder; parental death (on page); anxiety and panic attacks; use of a firearm; transphobia and homophobia (off page)
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First impressions, amazing. It has chapter titles and a map. Both good features for books to have. As well as the very English colloquialisms and northern words and phrases.
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This is a really well written book, with some amazing representation, and lovely characters. It was interesting reading a book that so heavily featured spirits and magic (the two things aren't always included together).
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I found a couple of the friendships surprising and unlikely but they really worked. And I was mostly unsurprised to find a healthy dose of pining (as with many queer YA stories).
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I also really liked that the trans and gay representation was really subtle. In the sense that the fact that there was a trans and gay characters wasn't front and centre, and wasn't a particularly large part of the overarching plotline.
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The guilt aspect, and the reason both Sam and Charlie are seers took me by surprise, but it also makes a weird sort of sense. I thoroughly loved this book, and would highly recommend it to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Torture, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Medical content, Grief, and Transphobia

sauvageloup's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

very good, very gripping. plot is a little complex so will be worth a reread.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Suicide, Torture, Physical abuse, Ableism, Blood, Body horror, and Bullying

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Grief, and Self harm

hexatrance's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

Oooh this is sooo my newest favourite comfort read. I absolutely loved this, and although I could see some of the twists coming, I couldn't not 5⭐ it when there are so many living and dead characters that I'm already attached to. Especially since it's set in York where I lived for 4 years at university, so this book is literally home for me and I can see and feel exactly where everything is happening. It was even a bit unnerving when the book mentioned a road I used to live on 😅 It's not just a perfect setting with an amazing cast of characters (who btw have queer, trans and disability rep) but the plot is gripping and Talbot has managed to come up with new and fresh ghost lore. The way the Ghosts/seerers operate in this book is such a cool take on them and I loved the blend of history/magic/occult in there too. I'm so exciting to see where this story goes next and the ending opens it up for even more exploration of this lore! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Self harm and Violence