Reviews tagging 'Outing'

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

28 reviews

kennim's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

Pros:

• Gorgeous writing
• The sisters' relationship and their reconciliation and growth
• The magic system
• The setting
• The villain
• The ending
• Bella was my favorite but I loved all the sisters
• The examination of different kinds of feminism and forms of protest and the consequences of them
• Everything was perfect this was my perfect book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Outing, Police brutality, Misogyny, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia

spineofthesaurus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective 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: Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Torture, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Self harm, Stalking, Violence, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Outing

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Alcoholism, Genocide, Murder, Excrement, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual assault, Racism, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Animal death, and Hate crime

Minor: Xenophobia, Alcohol, Slavery, Deadnaming, Classism, and Colonisation

l_e_lavalle's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful tense 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Pregnancy, Medical content, Abortion, Blood, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Body horror, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Child death and Kidnapping

third_bookworm's review against another edition

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

5.0

This was a delight! From the description I expected a particular brand of white feminism, but I was pleasantly surprised by the politics. This book manages an interesting and delicate balance of personal and political. The characters are wonderfully complex while still being sympathetic. The focus on the relationship between the sisters was sweet and enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Torture, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Alcoholism

Minor: Classism, Outing, and Slavery

lolajh's review against another edition

The beginning was really phenomenal and was really beginning to get me out of my reading slump. I was just in LOVE with the writing style and the worldbuilding of it. It made it so impeccably easy to read and slowly become immersed in the world. But then it slowed down quite a lot, and the plot isn’t quite interesting enough for me to continue.

I don’t like the whole outing thing Agnes did to Beatrice, and the whole fighting between them.

June was kind of the only sister who really intrigued me (my aroace queen!) and yeah, I can’t see this plot developing into anything more interesting. Very unfortunate after that strong opening 😫 Also, I don’t care if it’s accurate to the time period, but Beatrice referring to Cleo

(who’s meant to be her love interest btw)

as coloured feels wrong

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Outing

shelbea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Misogyny, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Outing, Abortion, and Alcoholism

sparklefarm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

There once were three sisters...

Rollicking, wild, and fierce. I loved this. I might read it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abortion and Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Outing, Transphobia, and Animal cruelty

breadwitchery's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Sexism, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Outing, and Abortion

Minor: Transphobia, Alcohol, and Animal death

njlbo1's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Racism

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Physical abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Torture, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Minor: Abortion

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Suicide, Misogyny, Police brutality, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, and Racism

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Cursing, Animal death, Classism, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Transphobia, and Domestic abuse