Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

6 reviews

adalee's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

It's a really good story and amazing take on the Wizard of Oz, the writing style does use a lot of words that you sometimes need to push through, but it's worth it for the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Cursing

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Addiction

annagrace43's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Slavery, Violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing and Pregnancy

blombern's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Torture, and Addiction

ka_ke's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

If you love twisted fairytales this one’s for you. I enjoyed the idea of this book even if the writing was basic. I understood who Amy’s character was supposed to be, and enjoyed the fact that she didn’t immediately gain an obsessive love interest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Animal cruelty, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Colonisation

Minor: Car accident and Pregnancy

katelynprice's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

I wasn't sure about this book at first, but it definitely picked up along the way. I loved the twist on a famous story. It's definitely a dark retelling with a fair share of gore and mild torture, so beware. I'm so intrigued by where this series is headed and will for sure be moving on to the next installment soon. I do want to note that there is a bit of cussing and gore, so I don't plan on recommending this to just any YA reader.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Bullying

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

hckilgour's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

As far as retellings go, I’m more inclined to call this a spin-off as it starts well after the Wizard of Oz story we know. But it is well done.

Paige was able to take everything we know about the story and flip it on its heads. While making the story arc of the main character Amy resemble what Dorothy did.

The world was well built and you truly hate the Dorothy Dorothy has become. But I still found most of the characters flat. They had motivations and realistic traits, I just didn’t seem to care about them. Like my favorite character was Star the rat.

I will say the ending is explosive and I will be continuing the series.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Cursing