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Weyward by Emilia Hart

56 reviews

leapingfrogs's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-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

4.25

This was an amazing book that helped absorb the person into reading the book. There is however, a surprise to the endings that is more on the exaggerated fiction side than anticipated in plot. Would 10 out of 10 recommend for someone to form an opinion on or acknowledge the different attributes that Weyward has to offer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty and Panic attacks/disorders

kingsteph's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

monnibo's review

dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

victoriamark's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

hnelson510's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

gidgetdraws's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book consumed me from the inside out. Greedily, without mercy, and lit a fire in my veins.

Readers who enjoyed The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner and/or Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese will enjoy this work and vice versa.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Alcohol

bananaanna's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Medical trauma, and Car accident

gracefelstead's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.5

surprise! the special thing that binds generations and generations of women in this family together is rape and medieval abortion potion! 

I went into Weyward quite excited, as I like a little bit of light witchiness, and a surname on my mothers side of my family is one letter different from Weyward. Instead of an empowering, magical story, this was a depressing, uncomfortable, and silly story. 

The story starts very slowly, constantly jumping between the three generations of women. The short chapters mean we don't spend very long with them at all before being whisked off to a different timeline. This stops the reader being able to form any sort of attachment to the characters. Very little happens plot wise in the first half of the book. 

I spent a lot of the first 200 pages wondering how and when these three separate stories would come together. To be fair, the plot did pick up quite a bit in the second half, I just kind of wish it had been a completely different plot, with a lot less domestic abuse, rape, mutilation, doctors harming women, truly disturbing descriptions of birthing aborted fetuses, and blood. 

In Weyward, the Weyward women use their special (unexplained) bird and insect powers to maim/kill/terrorise the men who have wronged them. Unfortunately, setting a flock of birds to pluck the eyes out of abusers is not really a feasible option in the real world. 

There is also a really strong emphasis on the belief that the main achievement of any woman in her life is that she will birth another woman and pass on her knowledge. A character feels she has failed at life after aborting her incest rape baby. This just feels like a really weird message to take away from a book that also so heavily features abortion, and the Weyward women facilitating abortions not only for themselves, but for other women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

asreadbybrad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

courtney_e's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy