Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

21 reviews

growintogardens's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

I love books that manage to make something somehow cozy and charming despite all the violence. Good at balancing the darkness and lighthearted moments. Anyway, off to add everything this author has written to my read list. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

katebella's review

adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

Really loved at the start, but had to force myself through a lot of the later parts (still enjoyed, think it might’ve been timing rather than the book!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and War

Minor: Animal death, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

The novel blurb may lead you to believe that the crucial element is the dead body but that plays a small small roll in the actual plot. There are some rather unbelievable but still enjoyable elements-

The leaders of the land relying on a 14 year old and her friend to make sense of political issues and power grabs

- is a key example.
I adored the sentient bread and the relatively well-thought-out magic system. There was realism in the magic and non-magic relations that could be compared to relations between groups in the real world. 
There was a MacGuffin element at the end of the book in the form of a specific character but said character wasn't wholly involved otherwise. The young characters accurately and often criticize that the heroism fell to them to do and pointed out multiple adults who failed in their jobs and caused this. A refreshing take amongst all the young adult fantasy characters that exist. There is also a brief criticism in how wars function in regards to those in the wars.
There is a little judgment on the form of magic characters are able to do and a sort of hierarchy in terms of abilities. There is also very much a class system ("useless" magickers and the destitute are relegated to 'the rat's nest' and slums in a specific part of the land) and several important characters have ties to the lowest seen parts of the system. 
There is a lot of humor to lighten the tense moments but I do wish some of the tense bits had a but more gravity to them.

The dead girl in the bakery is found and when her brother comes to look for proof he does the majority of his grieving off page and in the next chapter is acting like his sister never really existed in favor of helping our lead girl escape persecution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and War

Minor: Ableism, Hate crime, Vomit, Stalking, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

The sourdough starter is mentioned to have eaten rats, bite people, and regularly consumes meat. There are necromanced animals and zombie animals mentioned. None of this is described in excessive detail.

kauliflower's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

stars ,, 5.0
cawpile ,, 10.0

want to read about dancing gingerbread-man golems fighting mercenaries? ,, this is your book!

i honestly can't express how much i loved this book. it was so fun 'n sweet and i cried, genuine sobs! this book was everything i wanted and more, it wasn't even on my tbr, i just saw the title and went,, yep, reading that now. the characters were fantastic,, and made me cry ,, the writing was impeccable (to the point of me forgetting where i was in real life for a hot minute) and the plot itself was so fun! would definitely recommend this! ,, definitely getting a physical copy noooowww ,, <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Grief

Minor: Animal death

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

theespressoedition's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

elltea11's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

There were several places where I felt like the book could and perhaps should have ended. Not as good as Nettle & Bone imo, but still worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

devynreadsnovels's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sonatica's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail