Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Unseelie by Ivelisse Housman

20 reviews

erinwolf1997's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse

virre's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The writer on the spectrum exploring the theme of the idea that Changelings where Autistic without using modern words is a good idea.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Self harm

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Violence, and Blood

kassidyreads's review

adventurous 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

theespressoedition's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

buttermellow's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, and Classism

booksthatburn's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

Any book which depicts changelings in the traditional sense, with children stolen from the cradle and a faerie put in their place, leaving behind a child who speaks too well, and knows too much, but has trouble adjusting to the human world... such stories must grapple with the striking similarity that this basic description has to an allistic parent seeing their autistic child and misunderstanding them or being disturbed by their existence. Rather than merely acknowledging this fantastical descriptor of what are most likely real autistic children through history, UNSEELIE embraces it, centering on an autistic, changeling protagonist. Iselia, "Seelie", is loved by her family, knows who she is, and finds herself on an adventure with her human sister after the prejudice of their neighbors forced them to leave their parents behind and start a new life. 

The story opens with a heist gone wrong forcing them to team up with a couple of people who want Seelie to help them accomplish their goals. Seelie is trying to deal with more magic than she's ever had in her life while staying focused on her goal of fixing things and getting back to their parents. Unfortunately it seems like everyone else has a different goal in mind, and eventually things come to a head. As the first book of a duology, UNSEELIE  resolve several of its major plot threads and establishes a new paradigm for the sequel to resolve. I like the main characters and I'm excited to see where the sequel goes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Self harm, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

christineolivia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

madamenovelist's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

lettuce_read's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Violence