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inkwell_god'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
5.0
Moderate: Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Classism
amberinpieces'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? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Confinement, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
mirireads's review against another edition
- 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
3.25
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism
3frenchtoast'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? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Death, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder
Moderate: Torture and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism
soapbox_stories_'s review
- 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
3.0
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Kidnapping and Alcohol
rowan92579's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping
Minor: Murder
radler's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Pregnancy and Fire/Fire injury
krysley's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This is a fun romp of two teenage girls fighting back against the classism and sexism of 17th-century PotosÃ, Peru. Kiki and Ana are both strong characters in their own rights, but I thought Ana was the more interesting of the two. She faced a lot of hardship and seemed more layered than Kiki, who was young and rich though very sweet.
While I really enjoyed the setting, sometimes the author would go a little overboard with various details. For example, it was reiterated over and over again how the girls' corsets dug into their ribs within a single scene. The same could be said about the beginning of the book when we're first introduced to Kiki and Ana. The young women's feelings for each other were written in a heavy-handed way to get the point across, rather than allowing it to unfurl throughout the story. While that heavy-handedness lightens up as the story moves along, it just made the beginning of the book seem unbalanced with the rest.
As for the narration, Frankie Corzo and Almarie Guerra both perform beautifully throughout, nailing their character to perfection. My only complaint would be that when those performances are paired together, sometimes their voices were hard to distinguish between each other since they were similar in pitch.
Overall, I really enjoyed listening to Valiant Ladies and my issues were minor when compared to the story as a whole.
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
Minor: Sexism
foreverinastory'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
5.0
Rep: Spanish-Peruvian sapphic female MC, biracial Dutch-Peruvian (indigenous) lesbian female MC, Spanish cishet male side character with gout who uses a walking aid, Spanish and Peruvian cast, mute Peruvian female side character who uses sign language.
CWs: Alcohol consumption, blood, body horror, colonisation, cursing, death, grief, injury/injury detail, kidnapping, lesbophobia/lesbomisia, misogyny, murder/ritualistic murder, sexism, suicide, violence. Moderate: past death of parent(s), chronic illness, fire/explosion, forced institutionalization (at a convent), gun violence, pregnancy mention, religious bigotry, sexual content (not graphic).
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury