Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

20 reviews

adoto's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-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? No

3.25

I didn't like the writing style of this book (dialogue is juvenile and a little too modern, writing feels very tell-y, any foreshadowing that happens earlier in the book is signposted when it becomes important like babes I can use my brain) but I enjoyed the worldbuilding and some of the character relationships. It was a bit too focused on the men of the story for my liking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Transphobia

doctadri44'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Deadnaming, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

seregelda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

4.0

CW: slavery, animal sacrifice, death, violence, gore

Really good, but I didn't know till the end note that it was partly based on historical figures. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Sexual violence

anna_the_literasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Gore, Rape, Slavery, and Blood

elorathesun's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Self harm, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal death, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Murder, and Alcohol

softanimal's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed this book and I love Gronichec's writing but it didn't grab me as much as the Witch's Heart. I couldn't help comparing the two unfortunately. But still a wonderful story and telling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

Minor: Rape, Slavery, Vomit, and Outing

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

As someone who loved The Witch's Heart, I had high hopes for this. It unfortunately doesn't come close to how much I loved the author's previous work, but I still really enjoyed it. Love that one character is explicitly demi-sexual with stating how they can't do intimacy without really knowing someone first (love the ace/aro rep) and one character is trans. Overall loved the story and the little twists/reveals. The main characters are good as well even though they frustrated me at times throughout. Many of the minor characters were great though.
I will say there are a lot of slow spots for me and I didn't have the same intense emotions reading it as the authors previous book, and those are big reasons it wasn't a 5star read like The Witch's Heart for me. I will still totally look forward to any books or work this author does in the future!
Check trigger/content warnings although nothing was super graphic stuff was still detailed and mentioned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

Since I loved The Witch’s Heart, I’m not surprised that I loved this as well. The magic system was engaging, the connection to myth and history, as well as the connection between friends. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Slavery and Transphobia

dakdoesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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

Ok, wow. I had no idea what to expect going into this book! Queer romance, Vikings, and witches? This was such a fun novel full of compelling, strong characters. Gornichec is quickly becoming an auto buy author for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Slavery

slinkmalink's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

3.0

There were parts of this I really liked - the image of magic working as tethered to their bodies with a thread was cool, and I liked a lot of the side characters a lot too.

I particularly thought Halldor was a really cool inclusion, especially having read an interview where she said she was inspired by a Viking grave filled with weapons alongside bones later proved to be female, and the interpretation by some academics that we shouldn't assume how they identified, and they could have been a trans man rather than a shield maiden.

The adventure was cool, and I liked the fact that the most important relationships in the book were between the women. Oddny in particular was a good character for me as I think she did have a lot of depth and between her and Gunnhild I thought she was the stronger character. 
Gunnhild did annoy me at parts,

the whole cheating thing and then not backing down from it was irritating,

and I know she was the main character but she did have main character syndrome.
There was a lot of enemies to lovers but the tone of Eirik and Gunnhild was very different to that of Oddny and Halldor. Again there were bits of the Eirik/Gunnhild romance I liked, the moments of realising they had shared childhood trauma were good, but they did get somewhat irritating.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Slavery