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reinik's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Death, Blood, and Death of parent
Moderate: Cursing and Animal death
Minor: Homophobia, Bullying, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Mental illness, and Confinement
justinareads's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Grief, Death, and Kidnapping
blewballoon's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Blood, and Violence
Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, and Murder
letiross's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, and Death of parent
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, and Violence
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Homophobia
dallas_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
Minor: Death of parent, Car accident, and Death
crufts's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
This was refreshing and interesting. Without going into spoilers, characters like the Best Friend, the Girlfriend, the Wise Mentor Figure, and the Big Bad were all significantly different and created different dynamics to the Harry Potter series.
But the text reads like it was written by a neutral, professional third party. And apart from the
Moderate: Death and Violence
Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, Homophobia, Pregnancy, and Eating disorder
Violence: A number of magical fights break out.Abandonment: Simon reflects on being an orphan.
Pregnancy: Occurs in a flashback sequence.
Homophobia: Mentioned in backstory.
Eating disorder: A character is suspected of having one, but does not actually have one.
Death, death of parent: A supporting character dies onscreen. A parent is mentioned having died in a character's backstory.
evelynyle_88's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Death
Moderate: Animal death, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Homophobia and Suicidal thoughts
elijah00's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Death
Minor: Gaslighting
There are characters who are unreliable narrators and hide important information that is not revealed in this book.daffodilcherry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I went into this book expecting it to be an interesting take on a wizard boarding school with a teen chosen one, and ended up reading the Simon Snow trilogy within a week.
I loved the enemies to lovers twist, and how well Rowell wrote the switch between the two. This book is a perfect standalone, but an even better set up for the following two books, which I read immediately after.
Absolutely loved the narration of this audiobook, it definitely helped me cement voices for the characters going forward.
Wheelhouses: magical boarding school, the chosen one, but the chosen one isn't really that good at his job, bitch cracker syndrome, enemies to lovers, oh wait maybe I'm into him, hopeless queer pining, highly competent best friend, the way to saving the world was within you all along,
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Death
nonidude's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
2.5
First thing that made me actually upset? That I started this book and felt lost, like I was thrown into the middle of the the story with less than enough information to make sense. I had so many questions! At one point the book happened to flop open and I saw the Author's Note at the end of the book where it starts out, "If you've read my book Fan Girl, you know that Simon Snow began as a fictional character in that novel...." WHAT? I looked it up and it said they were independent of each other, but I wondered... Luckily I had that one in my TBR stack and so paused this reading to read that, and sure enough through the excerpts in that book, it shed light on some of the world of Simon Snow to help me not feel as lost which is frustrating since this is supposed to be an independent read.
I've heard this book described at Harry Potter but gay. Eh I see A LOT of similarities, but idk. I'd love to hear what someone who enjoyed the HP series thinks of this. Imo it's less scary than HP but the kids are ironically more normal (they kiss and cuss).
I was really confused with the romance. It seemed random and all of a sudden, but this is also a book that apparently had many books before it in this fictional series, so I'm sure you don't get the whole picture here.
It was a lot of nothing. The last 150 pages or so were probably my favorite.
Overall, not a bad book, but didn't leave me feeling WOW.
Graphic: Abandonment and Stalking
Moderate: Homophobia and War
Minor: Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Cursing, and Bullying