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Malice by Heather Walter

27 reviews

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, and Bullying

Moderate: Violence, Death, Blood, Classism, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Lesbophobia, and Adult/minor relationship

cnaccarato's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Self harm, Classism, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Violence, Abandonment, Gore, Torture, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, and Drug abuse

sapphicsoilscientist's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.75

It was fine. The mc starts out very ‘my life is hard and sad’ and turns into ‘I was bullied so it’s okay for me to be a jerk.’ I wasn’t super impressed with that. We all have hard lives and you made bad choices all along the way, baby. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. There was a jumble of fairytale aspects, some of them executed better than others. 

And listen y’all, Laurel was right. Aroura and Alyce were neither one fit to rule. They’re both idiots.

I didn’t really understand the whole shifter thing? It didn’t contribute a whole lot except making the mc seem like a Mary Sue. It could have just been part of her magic rather than another special trait. But it was nice to have her actually being a villain on purpose at the very, very end. I think a story about the actual powerful being would have been much more interesting. Or about the first queen in this kingdom. The author did pretty well with the actual court politics, so that part was interesting. I think there’s a sequel, but I don’t think I can be bothered with it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and War

venti's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

feels like a set up for the next book — which i’m not complaining about because i’m sure it will be great, but would have been cooler maybe in one big volume like priory? idk 🤷 i liked alyce and aurora, but was so annoyed the whole book when alyce was constantly getting shit on. hope she kills them all in the next book! 😜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Death, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Misogyny, War, Torture, and Sexism

booksandstardust's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

Moderate: Torture, Abandonment, Gore, and Child death

Minor: Suicide, Lesbophobia, and War

f18's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Classism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing, Colonisation, Rape, Lesbophobia, Suicide, and Torture

islesbiyana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Genocide, Classism, and Xenophobia

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

Tldr; Alyce is a bad bitch and I wish she’d gone off the rails sooner. 

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/malice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Classism, Grief, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Body horror, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Murder, and Self harm

lunar_song's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

Review coming soon

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Death, Racism, Child abuse, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Lesbophobia and Sexism

abbs15norm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, War, Murder, Child abuse, Xenophobia, and Blood

Minor: Classism, Confinement, Genocide, Homophobia, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, and Alcohol