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nicoreads333's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Moderate: Violence and War
Minor: Sexual assault
bearism's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror and War
Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit
Minor: Slavery and Sexual assault
samanthafrati's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: War, Violence, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Sexual assault
asahome's review against another edition
4.25
I like how they handled the
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, War, Blood, Animal death, and Violence
Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Kidnapping, Torture, Confinement, Gore, and Sexual content
Minor: Medical trauma, Rape, Genocide, Death of parent, Grief, and Pregnancy
Possession: the Woods possesses people, the book calls it corrupting themohno_joreads's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: War, Blood, Animal death, Death, Violence, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Classism
Moderate: Vomit and Sexual content
Minor: Alcohol
callitz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Animal death and Death
Moderate: Classism, Gore, Blood, War, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Violence
Minor: Body horror, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Bullying
sehenry20's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: War, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Sexual assault
stephslibraryy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
The writing and imagery within this story was so magical and enchanting, and I fell in love with the way Novik describes magic and the magical elements of the Wood.
While I do wish we got slightly more romance between the two main characters (felt a bit rushed by the end), both characters had great character development throughout the story.
I also appreciated how the blurb didn’t give any of the plot away - this provided a more surprising and compelling read, and the twists were more enjoyable.
Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, and War
camiclarkbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
It’s clear Nokik is a talented writer, her descriptions are lovely and evocative. However, I was uncomfortable with the attempted sexual assault near the beginning of the book and couldn’t really move past that since it was unnecessary to the plot.
Her characters were well written but were boring and took their sweet time to do anything.
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and War
freyagame's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Overall nice world building and scenery but never really decides if it wants to be high fantasy and I think it really suffers as a result. It is clear that Novik is a very talented writer, the prose is really great but is let down by plot structure IMO. Not helped by the MC being incredibly annoying in the first half of the book with some weird development leading into conclusion.
Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, War, Confinement, Murder, and Sexual assault