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wishbea's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Genocide
Moderate: Gun violence
poisoned_icecream's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Genocide
skudiklier's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Murder
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Stalking, Alcohol, and Classism
general bigotry, also lots of police/police corruption (though no police brutality so I didn't flag that)mpbookreviews's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Genocide and Gun violence
Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail
ohmage_resistance's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Genocide, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia
amynbell's review against another edition
- 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
By night, Claire is a masked thief. But she steals exocores for ethical reasons. By day, s/he's a baker named Claude. On one of Adele's first nights in the city, a masked Claire brazenly steals an exocore from her and the next morning serves her croissants at the local bakery. Their lives become even more intertwined as Adele is tasked with solving the exocore thefts across the city as her first assignment in her new police role. Eventually, Adele and Claire end up working together toward the same goal.
Wrapped up in this story is a history of a world where witches have been exploited for powers. So, there's an element of otherness-prejudice that exists to overcome. As the relationship between Claire and Adele develops into one of mutual caring, Claire seeks for Adele to understand her specific identity needs as a gender-fluid, aromantic witch. She likes people in her life, but she likes to have her own separate life so that she doesn't feel stifled. So, having Adele accept all of her differences without overstepping boundaries is important.
While I have several friends who self-identify in various ways, I really don't see it in the books I read, which is odd. It's interesting to read the inner dialogue of an aromantic who is interested in having a relationship but needing it to not be confining or overwhelming. I've known people like this, but they didn't have a label for themselves. They just always lived apart from their significant others if they had one. They've been dating for 20 years or their husband live 1000 miles away or whatever.
Anyhow, I vacillate between being completely enamored with this book and finding it a chore to read toward the end. There is definitely a depth of ideas to explore here. I think I was more interested in the dynamics between the characters than the action story that was unfolding with a race to save siblings and exocores. My 4 stars is really 4.5 stars. I can think of people to whom I would highly recommend this, but it's not for everyone. (less)
Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
ok7a's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Trafficking
Moderate: Genocide and Police brutality
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Alcohol
totallyshelfaware's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Gun violence and Trafficking
Moderate: Genocide and Kidnapping
yarnbug's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: Gun violence and Blood
pastelkerstin's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Grief