Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Witch Collector by Charissa Weaks

7 reviews

marsh_mall0w's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Sexual content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Animal death

folkofthebook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

while it was cool and interesting to have an FMC who communicates with sign language, that's the only thing that really makes this book stand out from other fantasy romances. there was a good amount of info dumping esp about the gods' lore so i was a bit confused and don't think i really felt the full impact of the implications and outcomes of if bad guys won in this. i think there's good chemistry between the MCs, but while there's a bit of conflict in the beginning the relationship goes 0 to 100 real quick by the end. the fact that the MMC

Spoiler

is yet another hundreds year old mythical dude while the FMC is only 20something (well at least she's 24 in this and not 19)

kind of makes my eyes roll at this point. though we get his full backstory, i didn't really get a great understanding of who MMC is right now. he's the witch collector but like ... what else? does he only do that and just chill around the kingdom otherwise? 

i hear good things about the next 2 books so i'm debating continuing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual content, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: War and Vomit

wrensreadingroom's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Deportation, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, and War

shannnne's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Child death, and Grief

beamsreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

Love that our main protagonists is representing someone who cannot speak. I did find this book a little slow for my taste and the love story a bit insta-love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, War, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Grief and Gore

booksthatburn's review against another edition

In retrospect I should’ve realized a book whose blurb mentions three authors I don’t like reading (as a positive comparison) was not going to be a book I would probably enjoy. 

I like the main character (Raina). I appreciate the way a story-specific version of sign language is used for her to communicate and others to communicate with her, and I like that the book has a list of author supplied contact warnings available at a link. That’s basically where the stuff that I like ends, and most of those ultimately aren’t about the actual story. 

I have enjoyed other books where two people that are from groups that hate each other for various reasons end up in a romance. I often do like those... when the two individuals involved haven’t already hated each other specifically in this context. But I’m having trouble relating to this story where part of the main premise is that Raina specifically hates the Witch Collector, and then has to travel with him, and the book seems to be heading towards a romantic/sexual relationship between them. I am not in favor of this trajectory, and the rate at which she is softening to him does not, to me, line up with what he’s actually doing. Ultimately, it’s just not a story that I care to read and so I'm stopping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death of parent, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Self harm, Animal death, and Pregnancy

soniajoy98's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment