Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

34 reviews

hematthews's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Outing, Violence, Hate crime, Gaslighting, Transphobia, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Deadnaming, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Car accident

tofi_15's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Deadnaming, Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, Infidelity, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

foxwish's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Transphobia

Moderate: Car accident, Infidelity, Murder, Outing, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexual content, Classism, Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, and War

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

risaleel's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Outing, Death, Transphobia, Racism, and War

Moderate: Sexism, Toxic friendship, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug use, Confinement, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

ejspiese's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.25

Funny, surprising, and super diverse! Engaging characters and a plot that kept me hooked. Hilariously written with a bunch of British slang. My only gripe is perhaps too many POVs going on, though perhaps with the next book that’ll make more sense. Can’t wait for the rest of the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Transphobia, and Cursing

Moderate: Violence and Abandonment

samreadsthings's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, War, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Infidelity, and Racism

traa's review

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Murder, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Violence, War, Death, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Fatphobia and Outing

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

maregred's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Classism, Death, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, War, Death of parent, Infidelity, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Abortion, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

axel_p's review

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.5

Slay

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Misogyny, Death, Car accident, Death of parent, Confinement, Outing, Domestic abuse, Deadnaming, Murder, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

Minor: War, Racism, Sexism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, and Transphobia

cozywithraven's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Death of parent, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism, and Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent