Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

17 reviews

awd100's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• 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

4.25

Definite echoes to the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell in basic premise, but takes it in a different direction and with a lot of charm.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny and Racism

Minor: Slavery, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Slavery, Suicide, and Murder

levesc17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Can’t wait to reread this! There is an extremely slow burn romance simmering but mostly it’s a magic adventure. A lot of scene stealing side characters too! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Minor: Vomit

adoto's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

I devoured the audiobook of this in one sitting but I can see why someone would struggle to read it quickly. It's written in a wordy, Austen-like style that I personally liked, but would be hard to get one's head around. 

The cover does not properly set you up for what this story is: a very British story that both pays homage to early 19th century England as well as completely redresses its imperialism and overconsumption. It has Austen's wordiness and her dry wit, and it's hilarious when it wants to be, dark and gory when it doesn't. 

The romance is sweet, but

Prunella's suddenly desire at the end to get married and have children at the end is a bit confronting, and ruins the catharsis of their getting together

. But romance is not the core focus of this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

atamano's review

adventurous medium-paced

• 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Death and Racial slurs

marla_leonce's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.5

I was required to read this book for class, so maybe my rating reflects that. The beginning of this book was very slow and tedious to get through, and the wording here was overdone and unnecessary. The issues of racism and misogyny were often brought up before being forgotten about completely. The characters were also lackluster. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, and Death of parent

asnecessaryasbread's review against another edition

funny reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Racism

Minor: Death and Suicide

tinyjude's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

3.5

This was a strong debut, although compared to Zen Cho's later writing that I had the pleasure of reading, was a bit weak. We see a rich intersection between feminism, colonialism and racism in this book, which contrasts with most of these type of fantasy novels usually with a white predominant cast.

Nonetheless, I would have enjoyed more worldbuilding, a faster pace at the beginning and more development for the love story between the main protagonists (as it felt a bit too rushed). I liked the way menstruation was treated in the story, as well as Prunella's power. I would have loved to see more of the familiars and the fairy world. I liked the complicated relationship between Zacharias and Stephen, although I was left disappointed at the fact that Zacharias didn't question him at the end why he didn't also free his parents as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Classism

Minor: Violence and War

buttermellow's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Death