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The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

10 reviews

elorathesun's review

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Murder, War, Grief, Self harm, and Gore

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Self harm, Animal death, Trafficking, Transphobia, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Slavery, and Panic attacks/disorders

aformeracceleratedreader's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

As someone who loved The Witch's Heart, I had high hopes for this. It unfortunately doesn't come close to how much I loved the author's previous work, but I still really enjoyed it. Love that one character is explicitly demi-sexual with stating how they can't do intimacy without really knowing someone first (love the ace/aro rep) and one character is trans. Overall loved the story and the little twists/reveals. The main characters are good as well even though they frustrated me at times throughout. Many of the minor characters were great though.
I will say there are a lot of slow spots for me and I didn't have the same intense emotions reading it as the authors previous book, and those are big reasons it wasn't a 5star read like The Witch's Heart for me. I will still totally look forward to any books or work this author does in the future!
Check trigger/content warnings although nothing was super graphic stuff was still detailed and mentioned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, War, Alcohol, Animal death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Misogyny, Outing, Vomit, Mental illness, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

mzgeee53's review

adventurous dark emotional informative 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Animal death, Blood, War, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Slavery, Death, Physical abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Murder, Child abuse, Alcohol, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, Medical content, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

netanya_shira's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Blood, Sexual assault, Slavery, Animal death, Rape, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Violence, Grief, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual content, and War

sarasreading's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

This book was great! At first I was worried it was going to be a bit slow, with too many characters, but it wasn't. The book picked up right away and I was never bored. I used to really enjoy the show Vikings, and the cultural elements in this were vivid to me as I could already picture so many aspects of Nordic life. 

The magic system and world building were great, and I was really invested in the characters' relationships, and surprise representation I wasn't expecting. 

After also loving The Witch's Heart by this author, I think they've become an auto-read for me now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Animal death

Moderate: Transphobia, Murder, Trafficking, and Medical content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

tfarfan's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Sexism, and Misogyny

tamara_joy's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The Viking Age setting really comes alive. Halfway through, I didn't like the book - all the terrible decisions being made were bothering me. But by the end it picked up again and carried the story through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Trafficking, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Classism, Gore, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Murder, Outing, Slavery, and Deportation

tashtasher's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

Difficult to finish. The characters are annoying and cringe. The dialogue is bad. The story is incredibly slow and draggy. The plot was pretty shallow and it seemed like the characters had no interest in finding Signy because they were each preoccupied with their love lives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Trafficking, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, War, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Death, Murder, and Slavery

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Transphobia, Alcohol, and Chronic illness

wildflowercrypt's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

i finished this book simply to say i gave it a fair chance, up until the very end, to win me over. it didn’t.

the historical inaccuracies are numerous and glaring. the writing itself is juvenile and in no way reflects the time period or its setting; everyone in this book talks like teenagers from a CW tv show— any CW tv show.  the main character of Gunnhild is selfish,  contemptuous, petulant, and for a nearly thirty year old woman, infuriatingly childish. Oddny is better, in that she’s at least likable, but her characterization is far too bland to be compelling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Violence

Minor: Rape

katiemack's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I liked this better than Genevieve Gornichec's previous novel, The Witch's Heart, likely because it was less of a straightforward mythology retelling and more of Gornichec's own creation. The dialogue is also stronger and less awkward. One aspect from The Witch's Heart that I was happy to see preserved here, however, is how much agency our women protagonists have--they're incredibly strong, inspiration, smart, and bitingly funny in their wit. There's also a trans character (possible spoiler?) that ends up having a major role in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Death

Minor: War and Death of parent