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tales_told_in_gold's review
- 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? No
4.5
Graphic: Trafficking, Child death, Bullying, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Alcoholism and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Racism, Physical abuse, Addiction, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping
minimicropup's review
- 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
4.5
🤓 Reader Role: Invited guest. I felt like I was walking around with Anna, sitting at their dining room table or hanging on the couch, trying to figure out the mystery and navigate the scenes.
- Contemporary fiction about family struggles, sibling secrets, and growing up too fast
- Hints of Indigenous folklore and creature feature spirits
- Heavy and symbolic horrors about being ‘different’, Indigenous histories and experiences
- Reflective, exploratory themes about connection, belonging, fitting in, growing up, growing apart, being different, storytelling, preservation of the past, grief, loss, corruption, and vulnerability
Graphic: Bullying and Racism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Physical abuse
Minor: Self harm and Animal death
pathologicalreader's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Moderate: Violence, Bullying, Death, Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Kidnapping
Minor: Trafficking, Vomit, Racism, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Slavery, Transphobia, Excrement, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Car accident
imstephtacular's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Bullying, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use
Moderate: Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Blood, Alcoholism, Animal death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexism
Minor: Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
abby271's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Alcohol, Death, Kidnapping, and Drug use
Minor: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, and Rape
ec_tyche's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Moderate: Self harm, Death, Murder, Addiction, and Racism
Minor: Drug use, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault
coltonchase_'s review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Trafficking, and Murder
vmh's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- 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
Graphic: Physical abuse, Addiction, Murder, Death, Racism, and Rape
starrysteph's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Pedophilia, Child death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Self harm, Racism, Child abuse, Transphobia, Death, Murder, Bullying, Violence, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Animal death, Addiction, and Drug use
haleyreads32's review
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Death and Physical abuse
Moderate: Trafficking and Racism
Minor: Addiction