Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

139 reviews

imds's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Child abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Abortion, Homophobia, and Transphobia

m0czy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

This book is feminist, witchy perfection. 

This book is so descriptive, and the prose eloquently paints the world in breathing color. 

The characters are flawed and powerful. Your heart will break for them and rejoice with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Torture, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Racism, Transphobia, Abortion, and Sexism

Minor: Police brutality, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Lesbophobia

martamae77's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful slow-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Sexism, Misogyny, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Torture, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Suicide, Misogyny, Police brutality, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, and Racism

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Cursing, Animal death, Classism, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Transphobia, and Domestic abuse

dreamweaver's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

4.5

Agnes' development felt a little too cyclical, i.e. falling back and going forward

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Child abuse

a_dara_ble's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

It was so good I didn't even really notice how long of a book it was. If you want strong female characters that are all equally great and different, while also being extremely flawed, often wrong, and sometimes unbelievably (and rightly) angry, this is the book for you.
It's been weeks and I still think about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Medical trauma, Racism, Sexual content, and Torture

graypandas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Murder, and Transphobia

alliemikennareads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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 very strong contender for my favorite book of the year. The Once And Future Witches is delightfully witchy. Badass women fighting the patriarchy in every possible way, with a swoonworthy WLW plotline and a very refreshing second romance plot line. We love to see it. 

This really had me hooked from start to finish and was not too predictable at all. I felt like I was hanging on every word. I loved these characters deeply - The Eastwood sisters, Cleo, August, the general narrative voice. 

It's going to take me awhile to recover from this in the best possible way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Confinement, and Torture

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

Minor: Abortion and Abandonment

olivia_manes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book was BEAUTIFULLY written and had the perfect fairytale feel that was meant to be portrayed alongside historical truths. However, I lost interest many times due to the slow pacing and it took me quite a while to finish the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

Minor: Homophobia, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Outing, and Transphobia

bibliobsessive's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse and Death