Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

6 reviews

hematthews's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Torture, Genocide, Kidnapping, and Violence

rabelais's review against another edition

3.0

the underlying premise of magic continues to be transmisogynistic. why? why is it necessary to require the entire existence of the world to be based on transmisogyny??? 🤬

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Abandonment, Cultural appropriation, Grief, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

keya_caivalur's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Addiction, Drug abuse, Grief, Blood, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Miscarriage, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, War, Misogyny, and Child abuse

Minor: Hate crime, Death of parent, Dementia, Genocide, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Child death, Bullying, and Cursing

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective 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? Yes

4.25

For the first part of the book, I was very confused about the plot but I was here for the vibes! Using witches to talk about sexism, racism, transpobia etc is a sure fire way to make me love a book. But as it kept going, I saw the plot unfolding and I'm super keen to see where this series goes and I hope it's a long one! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking, Torture, Racism, Transphobia, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Hate crime, Alcohol, Violence, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Murder, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Homophobia, Gun violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

writeronherway's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Murder, Animal death, Torture, Sexism, Cursing, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

Her Majesty's Royal Coven is one of my favourite reads of 2023 so far so I was extremely excited to read this one. I listened to the audiobook again because I love Nicola Coughlan's narration. She does a wide range of accents perfectly and the different character POVs feel so distinct. I think I preferred HMRC a tiny bit more because the main characters were more often in the same place at the same time but this was still great. Dawson continues to include social commentary within her urban fantasy world, this time mainly through the introduction of the witchfinders. They made me absolutely furious and this was just as tense as the first one, mainly because of them. The ending of the first one was an interesting choice and I wasn't sure I'd enjoy the repercussions of it but actually I found it a really clever and interesting direction to take the story in. I was prepared for another cliffhanger ending but I couldn't predict what it would be. I slightly regret reading this one so soon after its release because now I have to wait at least a year for the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Infidelity, Misogyny, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Grief