Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

19 reviews

rae477's review

dark emotional hopeful informative 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Addiction, Abandonment, and Violence

candacealise's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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: Blood, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Eating disorder

mostlykenny's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

omg, when I first picked up this book I was expecting some cheesy normal romance book because  was focused on the potential with Voya and Luc AND THIS BOOK IS WAYYYYY MORE THEN THAT. I fell in love with this book, so much that I ordered the sequel as I was in the midst of reading the first book! CRAZY! Everything is just beautiful. To the world-building, the unique take on witches and the magic system, the story driven narrative, the twists and turns, the characters, the writing. Ms. Sambury you have wowed me. This book not only is family oriented, which I love and talks about how not only romantic love is the only love you can feel and that platonic love exists, but I connected SOOOO much with Voya. Especially her anxiety about choices and decisions and what she wanted to do in the future. I connected with her about her love for her family and also how her community wasn’t as close anymore and I FELT that. I felt that. Off topic but I LOVE the dedication of this book 

“To Black girls everywhere: you can be more than a slave or a lesson for someone else. You deserve to be a witch or a dragon tamer. To fall in love with a vampire or lead your friends against a villain. You are more than the best friend or comedic relief. You are a hero.” It inspired me so much to read this and I love this author so much. This book might have just became my favorite book of all time. I love it so much. I can’t wait to read the sequel !! 🩸🕯️❤️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Slavery, Murder, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Death, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Blood

mallotar's review

dark inspiring reflective 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Blood, and Slavery

Moderate: Death, Addiction, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Cursing

lenaricharz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Death

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Racism

batmayne_reads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

The novel follows 16 yr old Voya, as she goes through trials of becoming a witch in a futuristic canada. I loved the family dynamic of everyone living together and being strongly connected with their ancestors. There is queer representation and a bit of romance. The novel mainly focuses on family and magic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Gore, Drug abuse, Death, Addiction, Slavery, and Gun violence

Moderate: Abandonment and Eating disorder

xandra_'s review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Blood, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, and Slavery

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Police brutality, Racism, Deportation, Stalking, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Suicide, and Transphobia

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

caelinsullivan's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Slavery, Murder, Death, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Transphobia

yvonne_cl's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Slavery, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Terminal illness, Grief, Addiction, Abandonment, Torture, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Infidelity, Gun violence, and Eating disorder

canascorner's review

challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

• 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? Yes

3.75

The book started off slower than I would have preferred. Once we finally got into the meat of the story I began to enjoy it a lot more. The biggest source of irritation for me was that throughout the entirety of the story the MC was really indecisive like to a point where I was getting annoyed. I don't feel like we were every provided an actual explanation as to what she was basically allergic to decision making. There were a few times where her choices didn't make sense to me and the justification seemed like a stretch. In spite of those small things, I still really enjoyed the story and her cousin Keis was my favorite. This also really made me ponder what love actually is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Death of parent