rnbhargava 's review for:

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Please note that when the narrative of this novel veers dark, it gets really dark. Nonetheless, it’s mostly Gothic Horror/Gothic Romance

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, Gore, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

There’s a lot of questionable material that may or may not be excusable depending on the time period depicted in the storylines. For instance, there’s a close relationship that veers inappropriate depicted between a similar age niece and uncle. It’s still an uncle. In other storylines, there’s racism and lesbophobia/homophobia/acephobia. It all depends on your perspective. The violence in the book involves mostly guns and knives. There are some mentions of various sorts of accidents befalling characters. Be aware.