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Weyward by Emilia Hart

251 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

Felt like all the rage I have of living in the misogyny that built and holds up the patriarchy was expressed and given an outlet in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Confinement, Kidnapping, Infertility, Stalking, Violence, Abandonment, Abortion, Grief, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

meaghanslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

I had been seeing this book everywhere and I probably should have checked the trigger warnings. I highly recommend you do and I wish more people when advertising books did that.

The extremely graphic triggering part of the book doesn’t come in till like a third of the way through.

I liked the switching perspectives especially in the beginning. The chapters were short and there was a nice pace to the book. Toward the middle and end the chapters were long we and started to feel slow. The book was a bit predictable toward the end.

I did like the author’s writing style (although sometimes the dialogue got a bit cheesy) and would consider reading her future works.

What really irked me and took me out of the story is at the end Kate’s abusive ex-husband finds her and instead of immediately calling the police or her friend (which she later admits she should have done) she concocts this more complicated plan to hide in the attic.  I just didn’t understand why she didn’t ask for help earlier in that crisis.  Also I’m not sure why she came down from the attic, I would have phoned for help as the animals were attack Simon. I don’t intend to victim/survivor blame but rather point out that as a reader it took me out of the story because I was thinking “what are you doing?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Body horror, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Gore, Infertility, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual violence

techgirl67's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Vomit

Minor: Animal death

starrymess's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Abortion, and Rape

Moderate: Death of parent

bexj30's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Feminism, witches, magical realism,  multiple POV, shitty men, well written, what more could you want.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Violence, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Abortion

doodlebeanz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

This book was a rollercoaster. It was definitely not what I was expecting and in some ways it was far heavier than I anticipated. I was given the book from a coworker and she described it as being about the Salem witch trials, which I’ve always been obsessed with since I was born and raised in Boston and learned about it, but this was not about that. It was about witches, and it had the vibes of the Salem witch trials from Althea’s POV, but the main story didn’t really have that same vibe. 

I loved Altha and Violet’s POVs the most. Kate was very sad, but as I do with most FMC, she made such idiotic mistakes. She righted the mistakes before they really affected her, which makes her a smarter FMC than some, but she just wasn’t as alluring as the other two women and her chapters/POV felt so bland in comparison of Altha and Violet. I think Violet was my favorite. 

My two favorite topics are feminine rage and nature and this book combined the two. I absolutely loved that the Weyward’s are one with nature and that they love all creatures. I resonate with that a lot. I’m the type of person who moves out of bird’s way on the street and apologize to them if I scare them and cause them to fly away. I also chased a squirrel in central park once because he had a Doritos bag stuck on his head. I’ve always tried to usher a cockroach to safety while intoxicated. Reading this book and how these women had their little animal sidekicks (or familiars 🙄) and they each had different critters (Altha with her goat and crow, Violet with her damselfly and Kate with her bees…) I just loved the magical realism of it all!

The main lesson I took away from this story is that… women are incredible and men fucking suck and that’s that on that!

there are some disturbing and graphic scenes in this book, please need the TW for this book before reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

gretamitg's review against another edition

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

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

4.5

It broke my heart and put it back together. The relationship of these women across the centuries and the way their stories mirrored and influenced eachother really got to me.
It really is a feminist epic. And it made me want to be less scared of insects, although i haven't gotten very far with that yet.

You should be aware of the potentially triggering themes in this book though. R*pe, domestic violence, miscarriage and termination of pregnancy are strong plot points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Miscarriage, Abortion, Incest, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, War, and Vomit

strawberrylemonade7's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Miscarriage, Incest, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Car accident, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Rape, Pregnancy, Infertility, Violence, Child death, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

eliza_beth_23's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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: Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical content, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Abortion, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, Stalking, Body horror, and Child death

Minor: Terminal illness, Alcohol, Dementia, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, and Forced institutionalization

scribblinginthemargins's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

An interconnecting story of 3 women from the 'weyward' family, and their affinity for nature and healing.

Initially the jumping back and forth between the 3 characters really irritated me as I felt it broke up the flow of the story. But towards the latter half this helped build tension across the narratives - tension was lacking quite often in each narrative on its own as not much came as a surprise! 

There's some unfortunate over use of tropes around trauma that knocked this down a bit for me, just because it felt that the plot was pretty predictable rather than nuanced in how it looked at violence against women, and this left the characters feeling a bit flat at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Violence, Slavery, Rape, Abortion, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Incest