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theycallmenana's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Blood, Stalking, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny
Moderate: Drug use, Pregnancy, Vomit, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Excrement
Minor: Stalking, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
brittonmc1221's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Torture, Blood, Murder, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
While dark there were enough moments of levity to keep it from being a thoroughly depressing book.
Narrator Rating: 5 stars
The narrator did an excellent job with tonal shifts and giving each character a unique voice.
Elemental Levels: Fluff-0/5 Heartfelt-2/5 Helpful-NA Horror-3/5 Inspiration-NA
Love aka Romance-3/5 Mystery-2/5 Predictability-4/5 Spice-0/5 Suspense-2/5 Tear- 2.5/5
Thrill-3/5 Humor-2/5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Classism, Grief, Death, Murder, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Blood, Chronic illness, Self harm, Sexism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Lesbophobia, Cannibalism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Confinement, Addiction, Excrement, and Bullying
Minor: Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Sexual violence
ilaxaria's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Death, Murder, Misogyny, Gore, and Blood
Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Violence, Self harm, and Child abuse
Minor: Sexual harassment, Drug use, and Rape
knightkikibeth'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: Death, Body horror, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Blood
lawwenlouis'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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Stalking, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Medical trauma, Torture, Child death, and Gore
thereadedit'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
I love that Krystal gives the power to women in her books. This book embodied every dream of women being the ultimate badasses. They refused to let someone else take their lives away. They wanted to make a life for themselves and refused to allow no to be the answer.
I loved these three characters. They each brought so much to the story and showed how 3 very different women can come together to make dreams comes true. No matter what their dreams were.
I loved exploring London through the eyes of these women and how their perception involved their surroundings. Seeing something through someone else's eyes is always so much an interesting experience and I love being in their shoes.
Emotions run high throughout this book because of the war that is raging within their world. It's not a typical war, but a war nonetheless. Amidst fighting their hardest they find the most unlikely allies in people they never expected. Not just each other but also people in their lives that they would have never expected.
I loved this so much and I was beyond sad when it ended. I got so invested in this world and these characters and I can't help but want more.
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Torture, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Emotional abuse, Body horror, and Gore
Moderate: Death of parent
mrschy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Moderate: Body horror and Death
kris386's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Body horror, Death, Gore, Murder, Misogyny, Violence, Gun violence, Child abuse, Self harm, Vomit, Blood, Bullying, Grief, and Hate crime
Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, and Animal cruelty
jaedia's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I enjoyed The Invocations a lot. At first I worried the purple prose was going to fall on the wrong side for me but quickly fell in love with the way Sutherland describes everything and paints pictures with words. And the three girls: Jude, Emer, and Zara, felt pretty 3-dimensional to me, to the point that Jude in my mind looked quite different to the Jude on the cover art, the other 2 as well, actually - I struggle to visualise characters at all, usually. I also just adore dark witchy stories. This one has gore, and demons, and dark power, and women who are angry. It really really hit the spot.
There were a few points that bothered me, however, though they were small niggles rather than outright problems. For one... quite a few typos. I maybe noticed 7 or 8 throughout the book? Which isn't great for a traditionally published book. Not the end of the world though, they don't make it unreadable. Also without spoilers, one character has a magical injury, you learn about it right away when they are introduced, and the extent of the injury and the pain it causes... it really bothered me that they could walk around and do things. Like, yes there were times if they were running or doing manual labour they'd be visibly struggled or just bow out completely, but it's never made into much. I experience some minor pain at times and can't walk when it gets really bad, and there are others who need to constantly use crutches or a wheelchair. Pain like that isn't something that you grin and bear, get used to, magical or not. It wipes you out. I would have at least liked for them to have a walking stick, you know? Would have felt more real. Also: disabled representation, we could always use more.
Aside from that, the rest really are just small things here and there. Perhaps a person feels too much like a walking cliché, something feels a little too convenient, that kind of thing. These are generally things I notice when I read young adult fiction, however, and I tend to just brush them off. The instances in this book where they came up just didn't affect what I was reading. The overall writing and excitement of the story and what was happening to these characters was solid enough that it more than made up for any issues I had.
If you don't mind a little gore and enjoy dark stories about witches and the occult, with queer leading ladies, nonetheless, you might really get a kick out of The Invocations. And if you do, I definitely recommend checking the trigger warnings, as it is horror.
Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Stalking, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Sexism, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Medical content, Alcohol, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Lesbophobia, and Vomit
Minor: Mental illness, Bullying, Eating disorder, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Excrement, Infidelity, and Pregnancy