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sueshi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Animal death, Grief, and Pregnancy
lauramcc7's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Classism
figsofpeach'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
3.75
Graphic: Animal death and Death
Moderate: Miscarriage and Xenophobia
Minor: Pregnancy
bluepazookie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
Minor: Animal death and Death
euphemiajo's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Alcohol
snerp_reads's review against another edition
I made the connection that she had based their religion off of Judaism when I came across two main details in the book; the specific detail that the villagers use graggers to symbolize their disapproval of her arrival, and a ritual the villagers have of fully submerging themselves in "living waters" (it was straight up just a mikvah).
I wish authors would quit dragging in their own antisemitism into otherwise perfectly fine books.
Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry
bitter_critter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Grief
Minor: Religious bigotry
star_charter152's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death and Death
Moderate: Miscarriage
mothmania's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, and Sexism
Moderate: Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism
artemis_growl's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I will say, if historical novels aren’t your thing then you probably won’t like this. The fantasy element is limited to the dragons and everything else is very ordinary. It’s as if Charles Darwin was a Victorian age lady who decided to write books about her adventures and there’s dragons. Isabella is a stubborn, young, smart woman, who doesn’t fit in with society. She wants to be a scholar, to research, go on adventures, study dragons. She dissects animals and wants to learn about them. Yet, she’s constrained by the societal restrictions and expectations of what a woman is supposed to be in Victorian age British society. She’s expected only to learn how do things like draw, play music, be interested in clothes, getting married, having children, and whatever else it is that well to-do British ladies from Victorian age are supposed to be interested in. I personally enjoy historical novels so I had a blast listening to the audiobook. I finished it in just a couple of days. My one annoyance with the book, and this is a minor thing I am nitpicking on….the chapter titles, they were like chapter descriptions and gave a little bit of a spoiler, more like at the end of a TV show you see a “On next week’s episode of…” I don’t know why I found that annoying.
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Spoiler Ridden Review:
Moderate: Animal death and Death