Reviews

Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels by Katie West, Jasmine Elliot, Kristen J Sollee

se_wigget's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This anthology is diverse, and some essays resonated for me more than others.

kellijoy's review against another edition

3.0

This book was written by various writers about their experiences with healing, power, feminism, etc. While I enjoyed the book for the most part it did get tedious towards the end and I ended up skimming the rest. So 3 out of 5 stars because it failed to keep my attention but you may think different. :-)

kaycee_king's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad

3.5

Some of the essays were exceptionally compelling. All of them were well written. I only shaved off some stars because the essays were very specific, so a batch of them didn't appeal to me at all. But there was a lot of diversity in the book, and that's important, good work.

voodoo_x_valentine's review against another edition

4.0

I liked it, but I didn't love it. The review is in regard to the audiobook only.

LIKES:
Content warnings at the beginning of the book as well as at the start of each essay. It may seem like a small thing to notice, but as a listener, it's a much-appreciated detail.
Content from a diverse collection of womxn.

DISLIKES:
The performance itself was flat at times. I would have liked it more if the essays were read by their original authors.
The disclaimers at the beginning of the book left a sour taste for me. I think this is definitely a format issue, as most people skip the introductions and forewords in physical copies.

Overall, I enjoyed Becoming Dangerous. I will likely try a physical copy as the audiobook wasn't a total hit for me.

disabledbookdragon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

annaphif's review

inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

hollyb86's review against another edition

3.0

21 essays from a variety of female contributors. Some are quite hard to understand. The language is quite high falutin.

historyofjess's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

3.0

This was a decent collection. There wasn't anything I found especially inspiring or revelatory, but there were some interesting voices that I was happy to hear from.

stonemaker's review against another edition

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4.5

strawberries_for_sal's review against another edition

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4.75