Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Weyward by Emilia Hart

37 reviews

maucha's review

challenging mysterious tense slow-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

4.5

Please read the trigger warnings, I didn’t expect a lot of the violence in the book. Otherwise it was a great read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Rape, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

thisiscorine's review

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Death, Domestic abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Sexual violence

Minor: Religious bigotry, Vomit, and Car accident

godfrina's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Three women's stories through the centuries, centering on their suffering, horrific abuse and mistreatment mostly at the hands of men. The writing itself is beautiful and I guess it's meant to read as a story of "female resilience".
However, it taught me predominantly two things:

1. I must stop getting seduced by gorgeous cover art 
2. I cannot stomach stories about misogynistic physical and emotional abuse 🤷🏻‍♀️

2 stars for the writing style and tackling the issues at hand. 
Content warnings longer than this review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Sexual violence, Incest, Religious bigotry, Blood, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Grief, and Death

Minor: Vomit, Car accident, Classism, War, and Colonisation

its_thekla's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

Surprisingly it was less the subject matter that kept me interested and more the way Emilia Hart wove this story. It's not a beautiful story. It's hard and dark, but so hopeful. A story of women, bound by blood and separated by time, overcoming the world around them. Men are such easy villains to cast, especially men like these. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Vomit, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, and Blood

hmaggs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Blood, Abortion, Grief, Car accident, Confinement, Rape, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism

atamano's review

emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexism

Moderate: Body shaming, Miscarriage, Death, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Pregnancy, and Rape

Minor: War and Religious bigotry

kyrstin_p1989's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful & magical. A story about the power of women and the bond between them, even when they’ve been kept away from one another for far too long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Vomit, Torture, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death of parent, Classism, Confinement, Abortion, Blood, Child death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, War, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Infertility, Car accident, Child abuse, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Cancer, Sexual assault, and Miscarriage

opie_azvuc's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

0.25

3 Girls 1 Spine

I'm really concerned for the author of this book. I don't know if men did something to her, or she's just chronically online or something, but she HATES men so MUCH. Every single male character in this book is an absolute monster save exactly one who's only kind of okay until the very end where he's a hero. To be fair, two of the three "protagonists" are incredibly bad at it.

Misandry aside, this book is not that well written. Each chapter takes around 5-10 minutes to read and less than that in the first third or so of the book. Each chapter follows around one of three women in three completely different time periods and ends on a cliffhanger. The first few chapters are only around 6 pages each, so it's very jarring and disconnected and feels like the author may have written it while guzzling espresso and shooting cocaine.

The first person we follow is Altha, a woman accused of witchcraft in the 1600's and literally the only protagonist to have any sort of backbone or agency despite the face her situation is the most dire. She avoids prosecution and immolation and goes on to rescue the wife of an abusive husband by causing said abusive husband to be attacked by woodland creatures Loony Tunes style.

The second protagonist, Violet, is a sixteen year old girl with an abusive father and a brother off at boarding school during World War 2. Her cousin, a soldier, comes to stay with the family on leave, date rapes Violet, and the father finds out and sequesters her in this cabin in the woods where it turns out he had her mother interred there where all sorts of horrible things happened to her by men. She learns how to give herself an abortion using noxious weeds and realizes she has the power to chase her father away with woodland creatures Loony Tunes style.

The third protagonist is Kate in 2019 who is running from an abusive boyfriend she has been with for 5 years and has had multiple chances to get away from but chose not to until she decided to flee to the countryside, at no point contacting the police, battered women's shelter, lawyer, or anything that makes sense. She doesn't even bother to get a gun or ask any of her new acquiaintances to look out for her. When the boyfriend tracks her down because of the script, she realizes she also has the power to chase her boyfriend away with woodland creatures Loony Tunes style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Child death, Miscarriage, Self harm, Abortion, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Dementia, Medical trauma, Grief, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Rape, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Stalking, Suicide, Gore, Bullying, Classism, Medical content, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Violence

lexihworth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Death, Death of parent, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Rape, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Death, Pregnancy, Violence, Alcoholism, Confinement, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

imyerhero's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Confinement

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail