Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

48 reviews

eeriekeri's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Child abuse

Moderate: Colonisation, Classism, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Genocide, Murder, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny

5.0

This was such a fun book. Wyatt is so dramatic and probably needs a life coach to help with decision making, but I love him. Emyr was a great surprise and idk, he can be my king any day. I love how supportive the main group in this is. Also, the ending - RUDE. Off to buy the sequel. XD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Colonisation, Racism, Grief, Blood, Dysphoria, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, and Infertility

kerttuli's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Sexual assault, and Deadnaming

Minor: Miscarriage and Infertility

loverrbboy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

i’d recommend this just based on the dragons and the giant wolf puppy … a trans protagonist with some great gender prose and a lot of anger. all the queer characters are so lovingly written. a lot of fictional politics in here that were hard to follow at the end but these kids are Good. magic is cool

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Sexual assault, and War

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Bullying

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Cursing, Drug use, Infertility, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Genocide, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Blood, Grief, Miscarriage, and War

bingo_banjo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring mysterious relaxing 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Police brutality, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Murder, Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

whatthefridge's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

It took a little while for me to get into the worldbuilding. The Fae stuff didn't include things I'm used to and the Witch stuff didn't do what I thought it would (I thought it'd be like witches can only be women but aHa trans witch), but in the end I got on board with it.

The relationship Wyatt has with Briar is queerplatonic, which should be a big yay from me, but most of the time it felt like Briar was Wyatt's crutch. I'm glad the story addresses this, but it's still a bit tedious to go through.

I like the chemistry between Wyatt and Emyr. Part of me wishes Emyr had a bit more personality to him because there's not enough show of why he and Wyatt are compatible with their personalities.

There's also the ending that bugged me. There's an entire moustache-twirling villain monologue style thing where the grand plan has to be verbally spelled out to everyone in the room, which conveniently includes *everyone* important in that room.

But, like, I adore Wyatt as a character, and he did a great job carrying the story without making it drag.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Police brutality, and Child abuse

Moderate: Transphobia, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Deadnaming and Sexual assault

asworlds's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

3.25

So, I had high expectations that were not met unfortunately. There's a lot to say, but I dont want to take up your time. Some plot holes, some bad character development. If you're okay with tumblr shitpost style writing, then try it out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Child abuse

queer_bookwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

 5 ⭐ CW: deadnaming, swearing, violence, child abuse, child killing parents (by accident), descriptions of blood and gore, oppression of a minority class, sexual assault

"Somewhere, at some point in time, some random cis person, who's probably dead now decided all trans people were stuck in the wrong body, and that became law. But I'm not a boy trapped in a girl's body.y body is a boy's body and its mine. My body isn't wrong."

"Your value as a person is not based on how much you can do for other people. You are valuable, Wyatt. You. All on your own. For exactly who you are."

Witch King by H.E. Edgmon is a YA urban fantasy and a queer dream! I loved this book with every fiber of my being. The representation was so so good. We get Trans, gay, bi, ace, demisexual, Indigenous (specifically Seminole and Diné), nonbinary, polyamory, and disability and fat rep! Whew! That's a lot of rep!

We follow Wyatt, a trans witch who lives in the human world with his found family and best friend Briar. We learn about Wyatt's trauma and why he left. Then his fae fiance shows up and all hell breaks loose.

Every snarky thing Wyatt says is mood af. I love that we get all the queer teen angst, and it feels so really instead of feeling like what adults *think* teen angst is. We explore the dark parts that comes with being trans and the guilt and self-loathing that comes with trauma. Edgmon does a great job of weaving these together with making the story too bleak. It's just so dang relatable as a queer person! Edgmon also clearly understands how impulsive (and how much of a dumbass) teenagers can be. And there are consequences.

We have found family tropes, childhood friends to lovers, and there's only one bed tropes. I absolutely loved Wyatt and Briar's relationship. They are family and have such an intimate bond, that is something I personally crave as an Aromantic person. Edgmon also did a wonderful job of showing how easy and seamless it can be to get consent and discuss boundaries. Just great communication about sex.

That twist at the end! I didn't see it coming at all! Imma need that sequel, like, yesterday! You need to read this book. This is a queer person's dream. Also dragons. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Blood, and Gore

Minor: Sexual assault

olliebolen's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Blood, Drug use, Transphobia, and Death

Minor: Child abuse, Colonisation, and Violence

It's not as bad as it sounds, but if you really struggle with these themes, it's understandable to want to give this book a miss.