Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

4 reviews

sarasreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense 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

4.0

This book was great! At first I was worried it was going to be a bit slow, with too many characters, but it wasn't. The book picked up right away and I was never bored. I used to really enjoy the show Vikings, and the cultural elements in this were vivid to me as I could already picture so many aspects of Nordic life. 

The magic system and world building were great, and I was really invested in the characters' relationships, and surprise representation I wasn't expecting. 

After also loving The Witch's Heart by this author, I think they've become an auto-read for me now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Animal death

Moderate: Transphobia, Murder, Trafficking, and Medical content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

brookesinfinitebooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Trafficking

Minor: Child abuse

tamara_joy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The Viking Age setting really comes alive. Halfway through, I didn't like the book - all the terrible decisions being made were bothering me. But by the end it picked up again and carried the story through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Trafficking, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Classism, Gore, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Murder, Outing, Slavery, and Deportation

tashtasher's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-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

2.0

Difficult to finish. The characters are annoying and cringe. The dialogue is bad. The story is incredibly slow and draggy. The plot was pretty shallow and it seemed like the characters had no interest in finding Signy because they were each preoccupied with their love lives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Trafficking, War, Blood, Death, Grief, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Transphobia, Alcohol, and Chronic illness