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kelisabeth's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness
ealunax'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Le début était plutôt long et pas ce à quoi je m'attendais donc j'ai pas forcément accroché même s'il y a un côté drôle et décalé plutôt cool
J'adore les réécritures de contes
C'est un roman vraiment léger, qui se lit super rapidement et je suis vraiment contente qu'on puisse évoquer dedans la question des droits LGBT, ou du féminisme
Je reste un peu sur ma faim à la fin du premier tome et j'espère qu'on retrouvera quand même Zinnia dans le tome 2 "Éclats miroitants", dans une saga de réécriture de contes un peu comme pour les chroniques lunaires
En tout cas j'ai hâte de découvrir le tome 2
Minor: Lesbophobia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Cursing, Homophobia, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts
lidia7's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
Graphic: Terminal illness
Moderate: Cursing, Grief, and Rape
Minor: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Blood
kibbles15's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
2.5
Graphic: Cursing and Terminal illness
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Blood and Homophobia
ash_hernick's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Infertility, Homophobia, Medical content, Sexism, and Terminal illness
Minor: Rape, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Sexual assault
Most applicable content warnings exist within a fairy tale context. Many are mentioned, and although not described in detail, are either mentioned or heavily implied and are ever-present throughout the story. The protagonist is chronically and terminally ill, and her main character arc revolves around aspects of this. Because of her illness, she is also infertile, though this does not particularly bother her.wrensreadingroom's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Rape, Blood, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Alcohol, and Chronic illness
booksthatburn's review against another edition
“Sleeping Beauty is pretty much the worst fairy tale, any way you slice it. It’s aimless and amoral and chauvinist as shit. It’s the fairy tale that feminist scholars cite when they want to talk about women’s passivity in historical narratives. Even among the other nerds who majored in folklore, Sleeping Beauty is nobody’s favorite. Romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; vanilla girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only dying girls like Sleeping Beauty.”
The MC is dying of an illness which apparently no one survives past age 22, she's 21 when the book opens. Her main personality traits are that she's dying, she has a best friend, and she seems simultaneously fascinated and repulsed by Sleeping Beauty as a story.
She oscillates between obsessively talking about how Sleeping Beauty is a garbage fairy tale and how she's dying just like sleeping beauty. It feels like someone turned their rant about how they hate this story into a retelling of it, but forgot to take the literal text of the rant out of the story. Huge sections of it are the MC talking about the flaws in the fairy tale. I wanted something that took the material and transformed it by rearranging it somehow, something that used the critiques to make the author's idea of a different/better story. Instead this book feels like a hate-write of the fairy tale, and I'm not invested enough to finish what would be a hate-read by the end, so I'm stopping.
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Alcohol and Cursing
fromjuliereads'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
4.0
Heads up that there is an HP reference and I am still REELING at the stark opinion on P&P adaptations - mini series is superior, FIGHT ME.
Moderate: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Confinement, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Medical content
Minor: Rape, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault
panthalassa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Self harm, Chronic illness, Blood, Confinement, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Abortion
emilypete17's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Terminal illness and Chronic illness
Moderate: Sexual violence, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Medical trauma
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Violence, Pregnancy, Abortion, and Cursing
Brief allusions to sexual assaults(off page). Chronically/terminally ill main character.