Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

97 reviews

kloughlin's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Abortion, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Eating disorder and Pedophilia

____emily____'s review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Abortion, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

themediocrebard's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Gore, Blood, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Eating disorder and Suicide

mjwhitlock18's review

mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A murder mystery in a magic high school (the students do predictably teenage bullshit with their abilities) and the MC, Ivy, is a non-magic PI (whose sister is faculty there), and is brought in to solve the case. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Xe Sands, and their performance absolutely improved my experience of this book. 

I like getting to experience Ivy’s emotions with her, her insecurity, her grief, her relationship with her sister. Has a few common tropes, some used in a clever way, and some flipped completely around, which makes this book easy to follow and keeps you entertained. 

The magic system is a bit lazy; because Ivy doesn’t understand the magic system, neither do we, which allows some hand-wavy stuff by the author that occasionally leaves me wanting to understand more. The identity of the murderer is kinda predictable, and the romantic subplot seems unnecessary.  Also, 

I think it’s worth pointing out that the primary lesbian relationship ends up being the murdered and the murderer, which I don’t love. Kill Your Gays and all that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder

Death of queer character

stacy837's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

qrschulte's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Abortion

Moderate: Death of parent

eggatha's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

mel_odramatics's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

foreverinastory's review

mysterious reflective 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

4.0

This was a fun murder mystery!

Rep: white female MC (I think Ivy is queer but I'm uncertain), BIPOC bisexual male love interest, several lesbian female side characters, pansexual female side character, BIPOC female side character.

CWs: Body horror, abortion, cancer, gore, blood, death, murder, medical trauma, medical content, grief, past death of parent, alcoholism, alcohol consumption, terminal illness, bullying, emotional abuse, violence, mentions of past pregnancy that was terminated, vomit, gaslighting, toxic friendship, injury/injury detail, sexual content. Moderate: eating disorder and mention of weight checks, cursing, mention of past adult/minor relationship, panic attack, suicide, sexual harassment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

jodean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

captivating read, well weaved. tore it up in a day.

I wish the ending had been tied up a bit more, tho.

I wanted one more conversation with Rahul.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Abortion, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship