Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

5 reviews

soph22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

Look, I don’t hate this book, there are things I like. Sophie is a great, complex character, who I love - and not just because we share a name, but I have some issues.
Fatphobia and fat-shaming is very strong in this book, with people being seen as more beautiful when skinny and ugly when fat (this book is aimed at middle grade, young adult right? That’s incredibly problematic!) also girls are seen as less beautiful with short hair, and the general diet culture around the cast of characters, it feels very dated.

It also features what I can only describe as Transphobia and deadnaming. I understand the plot of the book involves characters switching genders but… the way it was handled left me uncomfortable

So, overall, I will continue with the series, but only because I bought them as a set.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Murder

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

lakinglaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

3.0

I wanted to really like this book and it had a lot of potential, but I didn’t love it. There are just too many problems, the plot development is lacking, and everything just felt flat and under developed. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

rumireads's review against another edition

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying

carmineslamp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

AHHHHHHHHH. I feel like this is such good middle grade fantasy. I'm in college and I still find myself riveted by it. I loved some of the twists and squinted at others, but eh, what do you expect.

WHY WERE TEDROS AND FILIP SO GAY FOR EACH OTHER??? THOSE ARE TWO HOMOSEXUALS. BRUH. BRUH. AND TRISTAN??? BRO, SHIT R U I N E D ME

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Death and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Torture

Sexism in reference to the girls calling the boys born slaves and the boys just fucking hating women, I guess.

also i'm calling what sophie and rafal have going on an adult minor relationship because i know some people are uncomfortable with that. it's just immortal man getting with 16 year old girl, so take your opinions into account

squinnittowinit's review against another edition

Very transphobic/queerphobic.

Also the characters learned nothing during the first book and haven't grown at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship