Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova

9 reviews

jackie_marion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Stalking, Animal death, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Body horror

achay91's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit, Blood, and Murder

emily_mh's review

Don’t think this series is for me unfortunately x 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Death of parent, and Confinement

Major: loss of a loved one Minor: missing loved one, fainting

karcitis's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Murder, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Car accident, Cannibalism, Body horror, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Self harm

Minor: Eating disorder

badassladyknight's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident, Vomit, Violence, and Self harm

goldenjunegem'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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

ashyouwish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Violence, and Vomit

marissasbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Self harm, and Violence

booksthatburn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad 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

4.5

Bruja Born is about clinging to love gone sour, plans gone rotten, and the strength required to accept new realities and move on. The young brujas are fierce, brave, and naive in ways that make them feel like the children they are. A good sequel.

The sibling dynamic between Lula, Alex, and Rose feels complex and genuine. Even though Rose hasn't been a pov character yet, she feels like a full character in context with Alex and Lula, which can be tricky to pull off.

I get stressed out by stories which have extended sequences where someone is lying about something huge, and that's a driving factor in most of this book, so it was difficult for me to read. It's a common trope, so that's mostly a thing I had to adjust to, and not a fault with the story. Given that, I still like this one and I was satisfied by the ending.

My one concern is that when reading this book, it feels like I'm missing information, like there's more I should have known coming in. After finishing the book, the supplemental material indicated that a group encountered there, the Thorne Hill Alliance first appears in The Vicious Deep, also by this author, so I'll skip over to that series and see if that addresses this feeling. If it feels like something was said elsewhere because it literally was in a different, earlier book, that's fine. If it's because this book vaguely gestures at world-building without putting enough detail in, that would be a negative for me.

I must say, Zoraida knows how to write a cliffhanger, I'm itching to read the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Cannibalism

Minor: Ableism and Pregnancy