Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

65 reviews

g_monaghan's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

4.5

Hocus pocus witches, HMRC makes me laugh every time. Love this book so much! Not usually one for real life settings but this story was so clear in my mind and I loved the found family trope with trans and queer representation, some parts were incredibly infuriating and triggering, however, a page turner I need to read the next one immediately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Deadnaming, Death, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Grief

dragongirl271's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Racism, and Self harm

jaynovara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

fourhand13's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Not too bad by any means, I felt engaged throughout and this was a pretty easy read.

I feel like a lot of people are jumping the gun to be like "thing bad so that means book bad >:(" with any of the iffy things depicted (e.g.

gender essentialism, prison and punishment system

etc.) and it's like this is only book 1. I have a good bit of faith that some of those things will be tackled in the following installments of the series, bit hard to deconstruct every systemic issue in 450 pages.

The dialogue comes across as quite cheesy and stereotypical at times and I do think the writing quality went down a touch towards the end with the action scenes but over all, not the worst read.

I beg the next person who has sex in this series uses lube

Aside from the openly noted content warnings I will say that if you have an aversion to animal death skip chapter 1 (niamh's first one) at least and possibly parts of chapter 21.

Also if you're susceptible to paranoia about having people read your thoughts, this might be a miss too cos there's a LOT of that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Murder, and Outing

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Violence, Grief, and War

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

tw for mind reading/ invasion of thoughts,

strangulation and near drowning, execution

ashley_a_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Infidelity and Racism

bessadams's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Murder, and War

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Death of parent

kaceyjoy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death, Homophobia, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Outing, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, and Fatphobia

bethhartigan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal death and Outing

booksandteatime's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Transphobia, Blood, Car accident, Murder, and War

itsy719's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Sexism, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Homophobia, and Vomit