Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

191 reviews

the__allovee's review

adventurous challenging 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Religious bigotry

myranda_the_bookwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.25

If I was rating this book by the last third, maybe even the last half, it would definitely have scored higher. The pacing of the book felt uneven, however, with the first half being a slog with just enough potential to keep me from consigning to the DNF pile (that is, it came close enough this was a second attempt, as I'd started and put it aside after about a third more than a year ago). Part of the issue is that things felt-more heavy handed and repetitive in trying to show the world-building and character development, to the point where I was essentially going, "I get it already, move the story on!" and some of the buildup didn't lead to the payoff expected of it as a result. Still, I gave the book a second chance and I will give the author another chance, as there is definitely that sparkle of potential in this book and the author's writing, that perhaps a different editor or a little more time might serve better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Antisemitism, Violence, and Xenophobia

grrrcait's review

adventurous dark hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Animal death, Murder, Colonisation, Violence, Self harm, Gore, Bullying, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Lesbophobia

antonya's review against another edition

adventurous 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

Slow first half, fast second half. Second half is very much a fever dream.

The villain was absurdly evil with little to no backing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Self harm, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

Minor: Bullying

laurapalmertm's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Self harm, Death, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Vomit, and Torture

ska1224's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Confinement, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, War, Violence, Self harm, Death, and Hate crime

mira167's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Ein sehr nices Buch, vor allem die Reise hat mir gefallen. Hat mir auch so Hobbit vibes gegeben (so ist das Buch nicht, aber diese vibes hatte ich).

Ich mochte den religionsaspekt am meisten. Einfach die Parallelen zu echten Weltreligionen und die Beziehungen der Religionen und der Menschen untereinander. Auch die Parallelen zwischen der Yehuli Religion und dem Judentum, darüber kann man auf jeden Fall philosophieren. 
Ich mochte auch die Lovestory, weil es nur so ein subplot war.
Es ist allgemein sehr viel passiert, aber ich fand es nicht überwältigend und auch gut für ein standalone. 
Die Kriegsszene ist sehr kurz, aber ich fand das nicht unbedingt schlecht. Ich glaube in diesem Buch hätte das nicht wirklich gepasst. Somit wurde es gut beendet. Und ich mochte, dass in dem Epilog die beiden jetzt nicht direkt in love und married waren, sondern dass auch die immer noch existierenden Probleme der Gesellschaft angesprochen wurden.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

kyeruhh's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

3.5

Things I liked:

• The world building/lord
• Actual enemies to lovers
• The prose

Things I didn’t:

• Very gory imo - my fault for not checking CWs first though
• A lot of info dumping (at least the info was interesting)
• To me, the pacing was odd

Overall I enjoyed it for something that is quite out of my typical wheelhouse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Antisemitism, Hate crime, and Death of parent

evelphysicist's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: War

gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This was ok, interesting enough to finish but I don’t think it will truly be memorable for me. For an adult novel with older characters, the inner monologue and thirsting over the love interest was a bit gratuitous, and quickly went from forced proximity enemies to lovers to “I’d die for you instant love”. 

I also was not sure how I should take the low level magic world with real life Jewish and Hungarian historical elements? I don’t know much about either, so it was sometimes confusing to know if a piece of worldbuilding it was something that was historical or made for this book. 

I think if you like more historical romance novels, this might be better for you than for me! I was expecting a lot more magic based on the first couple of pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Gore, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Antisemitism and Self harm

Minor: Cannibalism