Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

29 reviews

alisonvh's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

3.5

This book left me cold and I have no idea why. It’s well written and it has everything I want: magic, adventure, a super charming main character, and a little bit of romance thrown in for good measure.

I think what threw me off is I found it hard to relate to the main character. She’s the type who expects things to go wrong, so she has a tendency to self-sabotage. Although I was able to understand why she was doing what she was doing, it’s so far from who I am that I found it hard to relate to her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse

craftysnailtail's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

I was pretty excited for a sapphic novel by this author, but to be honest, I wasn't sold on the romance. The main characters are likeable and unique, I'm just not sure they make sense together. The plot was interesting, but this book felt like two novels squished together. I think it would've been better split up into two. It was still a fun and slightly creepy read, just like the first in the series. I highly recommend listening rather than reading this one. The slang would've been a nightmare without the talented VA they got for the audiobook. 

It's a bummer the romance fell flat for me because the characters were well developed. It almost makes me feel like the author wasn't entirely comfortable writing a gay couple. The first book had quite a bit of explicit material, but this one has zero spice. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just felt odd to me when compared to the first in the series. Overall, I would read more from this series because I enjoy the characters and atmospheric plots. They're great autumn reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Confinement

raptorq's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Suicide, Blood, and Vomit

earlgreyjedi's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful 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

3.75

The romance between our two FMCs was adorable and sweet. Watching Delly grow was wonderful. And I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many different ways to say “mouth.” 😂 Excellent performance and a good story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Death and Suicide

littlelizzieborden's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sarahwilli's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide

clarabooksit's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide

basil_touche's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

I'll just say right off the bat that I found this book extremely disappointing. 

At first I was really into the victorian style of writing and a story involving magical female bodyguards with a sapphic romance on the side. But then the book dropped the bodyguarding aspect less than 100 pages into it and instead

focuses on the characters starting a drug ring to catch a murderer.

The blurb for this focused solely on the bodyguarding aspect and I wouldn't minded the change had it actually turned out to be anything interesting, but it just wasn't. I was expecting some deep governmental conspiracy that links in with the classism that the book features (I will give the book that it handles that well), not a narrative that doesn't really deliver anything.

Around five chapters focused on just the romance and

the building of the drug producing laboratory, it was a repetitive cycle of working on in the lab, luncheon, flirting and resting.

It was just so dragged out and unnecessary. All this meant that the ending was extremely rushed and we aren't even given a motive for the antagonist. All the characters are rather one dimensional as well, that by the end of it I didn't care about any of them or if the romance between the protagonist and the rich half-troll clanner worked out in the end.

It's a real shame as I love the idea of a fantasy book set in a victorian setting with the period appropriate writing style but this book just did not fullfill anything for me. Waste of time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content and Suicide

bobin's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicide

the_lesbrarian's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death and Classism