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Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

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wishbea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted reflective 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

A gripping storyline all the way through with highly emotive themes and dynamic characters. The plot was intriguing and difficult to predict, the magic system was fun to learn about and I loved how it was linked to nature.

It was wonderful to read a fantasy story from the perspective of adult women, where many of them have kids/kid charges and it's an accomplishment that the children were all dynamic characters and not frustrating to read about or detrimental to the plot in a way they sometimes are. Themes of motherhood and found family are very strong here.

The romances and friendships all felt organic to me and I was definitely rooting for the budding new romance in the book.

The trans storyline was by far the strongest and was what made this book 5 stars for me, it used a great many talking points I've heard from trans people, allies and TERFs so it was bone chilling how accurate to real life the arguments the characters were having felt.

We also get POC characters and lesbian characters, but their struggles were sidelined somewhat and I am hoping they will get their chance to shine in the next book.

I'm glad the second book is out because I can't wait to read it and find out where these characters go next.

Edit: After reading the second book I've changed my rating to 4 stars as I realised the ending to this book destroys multiple characters storylines and is partially responsible for book 2 being disappointing.

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marwal's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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maregred's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

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th18's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Heres a few points I noted down whilst reading:

Fast pace and seemed more YA than anything, too many modern references for me personally but each to their own.
This also felt like the second book of the series at the start there was just so much unexplained things thrown in.
Whilst the book did deal with modern topics such as race and trans rights, I wish it also talked a bit about harmful beauty standards due to Elle literally hiding her true self from her husband.
I feel like the amount of swear words was also unnneeded.
I love the idea of queer witches and empowered modern women but I feel like the talk about adulthood was very bleak
The writing and worldbuilding also felt quite underdeveloped which was disappointing
Finally the use of the d slur was completely unneeded

Although I've only mentioned the negatives, I did have an okay time reading this and it was quite engaging but it could definitely have been better.

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natashaleighton_'s review against another edition

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adventurous dark 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

5.0

A fabulously witchy, plot twisty rollercoaster of a book that I literally couldn’t put down! I actually picked this one up in Waterstones on a whim and can’t believe it’s taken me soo long to get to it.

It’s told a from the POV of four witches : Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle—childhood friends how find themselves on opposing sides when a young trans witch is taken into custody by Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (HMRC) under the belief they may be the catalyst to a terrifying prophecy that could destroy the world.

I absolutely loved Theo and her bond with Niamh and Holly, seeing how happy she was, finally being able to live as her true self was amazing! I don’t want to spoil the plot, but trust me you don’t want to miss this one. It’s EPIC and given THAT jaw dropper of an ending I can’t wait to get my hands on the sequel 😍❤️

TWs: transphobia, racism, violence, murder

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cozywithraven's review against another edition

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dark tense 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? Yes

3.0

The characters that alternate as narrators are all pretty diverse, but I got pretty annoyed that almost every chapter made a point to label something as problematic. The final .... Fight(?) Was a pretty big disappointment for how it was being built up, and the final twist felt like it contradicted the magic system and plot.

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