Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Weyward by Emilia Hart

254 reviews

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

superstormnora's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.75

Women’s relationships with other women are the most powerful relationships that a woman can have. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Pregnancy, and Vomit

h_beemster's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual violence

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? No

3.75

It’s such an interesting book full of strong female leads. I loved the three interwoven stories and the mystery unfolding. Very well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

abbykruth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

The author does a phenomenal job with the three different timelines - different tenses used consistently for each, but intermingling just enough to show the connections

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Death

qwends's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt

shacara_shacara's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Domestic abuse

rshearon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

this book was very good! it was well-written and exciting. and it reaffirmed my misandry (I HATE MEN). i thoroughly enjoyed the three different povs from three generations of the same matriarchal line. it was. nothing like i expected, though! i went in blind thinking it would be fantastical and witchy, and instead it was moving and tense. i was on edge pretty much the entire time. the magic aspect was more toned down than i expected, but i really enjoyed it. the themes of scorned women/womanhood in general and justice and fear and violence and power were all very emotional. it was a very sadly realistic look at generations of trauma that women have had to live through. 

for me, personally, the book dealt with topics that i generally have on my “do not read” list. this story was told brilliantly, but it was definitely a hard read for me. while i loved the FMCs and their story, it was a bit much for me emotionally. i also feel as though the entire plot was a bit obvious from about 40% in. the writing was extremely well done though and the story was beautiful; it was just hard on me personally !! will def be checking out this author again in the future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Miscarriage, Rape, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts