Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw

7 reviews

celery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Grief, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Cursing, and Death

xvictoriam9's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

2.5

Very young adult but dark 
Not sure about the hipe
The ending / what happen to oliver is very obvious

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Alcohol, Murder, and Bullying

Minor: Abandonment

itsreirei's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

3.5

The best character doesn't even get a mention at the end of the story #justiceforFin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Grief, Violence, and Death

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Death

Moderate: Bullying and Alcohol

Minor: Murder, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenleigh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I’ll start with my negatives so I can end on a positive note lol. I really didn’t care for this writing style. There were so many incomplete sentences. All the time. Constantly. Like they’d never stop. 😅 I totally get that we don’t think in complete sentences all the time, but would it kill you to use a conjunction? It just took me out of the story and felt half-baked. Despite that, I did like the overall plot. I kind of saw the twist coming, but that doesn’t bother me so much. The vibes were immaculate, helping bring me back into the plot when the writing bugged me. Pro tip:  when it’s 115 degrees out, read a book set in the dead of winter! I could really feel the chilly, witchy, forest energy throughout the text.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

aidamaria_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Even though this book kept me entertained well enough, it just didn’t hit me the way Shea Ernshaw’s The Wicked Deep did (which had me crying big time and I would definitely recommend). Compared to her other novel, I felt there was less dept to the romance and certain parts were a lot more predictable. There was, however, one less predictable twist at the end which was pretty cool, and overall I do enjoy a good witch story. I’m giving it ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (3.5 out of 5) stars. A nice spooky October read! 🎃

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Violence, Toxic friendship, Murder, Grief, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, and Alcohol

elliekg's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Violence, and Bullying