Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling

146 reviews

garbutch's review

mysterious sad tense

• Strong character development? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Kidnapping, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Car accident, Stalking, Blood, Medical content, and Violence

_nem_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Blood

samlopez93's review

funny mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

The main character just wasn't doing it for me. Very juvenile writing that I would have wanted at least some maturity from the characters by the end of the book. Not terrible, just not gripping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Toxic relationship

softwindflower's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Lesbophobia and Biphobia

crissi's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Gun violence

julessssss's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

very cute, with just the right mixture of fantasy and realism, and plenty of plot twists

the only thing is that it is definitely ya and that bothered me just a bit a few times lol 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Gun violence, Death of parent, Animal death, and Blood

vainnerj's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Death of parent

evavstheworld's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death

cristinareading's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death of parent

madmadmaddymad's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

It was alright. 

I liked the sapphic elements, and the magic. I liked that there was a love triangle with an ex girlfriend and the new girl in town. I liked the themes of being a witch and not being able to tell anyone, juxtaposed against  being a lesbian and being out about it. 

The story itself had incredible pacing problems - I felt like I barely had a chance to get to know the characters and the world before all hell was breaking loose and they were being attacked by vengeful blood witches, hunters, arsonists, and some mysterious stalker set on vehicular manslaughter. It was like watching one of those teen shows on the CW. We were just trying to decide what to do about our high school crush, the loss of a first love, being in the “closet” (magically, at least) with your best friend…. I just wish this book had given me more CHARACTER moments? Because there was so much potential. The plot was too in-your-face, and it didn’t even feel that high stakes, when your main character is surviving a house fire only to be in a major car crash less than a hundred pages later. 

It gets an extra star for what it COULD have been, if the author knew how to take her time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Death of parent