Reviews tagging 'Classism'

A Word so Fitly Spoken by T.A. Lawrence

6 reviews

gsedlar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

THIS BOOK MADE ME LOVE READING AGAIN!! I had just finished some longer series, like Cruel Prince, Shatter Me, and Flame in the Mist, and I was having trouble finding books to keep me engaged. But when I found this book, it was great for getting me back into reading. The only other book I would say that matches this one is Six of Crows. If you like any dark fantasy books, and don't like a lot of spice, this book is perfect for you! Definitely a longer read but 100% worth it for all the plot twists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Blood

Minor: Cursing, Death, War, Death of parent, Vomit, Classism, and Violence

caitlinkm's review against another edition

emotional funny tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Classism, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Sexism, Child abuse, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Murder, Rape, and Torture

booksalacarte's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

A word so fitly spoken-3⭐️ 2🌶️ (clean YA fantasy)

One stunning bride.

One wedding.

One night with the king.

One execution come morning.

Rinse and repeat.

When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he’ll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning.

Unless…

Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest.

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✨My Opinion✨

This is a dual POV, clean fantasy romance retelling of 1001 nights, just with Fae and magic. 

The magic system is interesting, but not everything has been revealed. So the first portion of magic revealed is about this sentient story weaving magic that bonded to a human. The idea of it being aware and able to hold conversations and be a witness to a being’s life, even the private parts is….. uncomfortable. 

As for the characters, Asha was a fine heroine. She was self sacrificing while working through pride, which was very interesting. I enjoyed seeing her work through the different prejudices she had against Kierian. 

Seeing the typical Fae issue of not being able to lie worked around and through was fun. Kierian was a tough cookie to figure out. You didn’t know if you could trust him or not. It was fun!

I didn’t love the story within the story, but I understand that it was necessary, and helpful for the context of the plot. But for the longest time it felt like filler, therefore annoyed me more than anything… even after it was revealed to be important to the plot.

Structurally, some of the chapter divisions are put in awkward places and messed with the flow of the story. Annoying, but not a deal breaker.

The book delivered the tropes that I expected, one bed, he falls first, “who did this to you”, enemies to “lovers”, betrayal, slow burn, treason, martyrdom, and a few more.

I started reading for the sister taking her little sister’s place plot.
I kept reading to see if the two main characters ever actually got together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

prettynerdy3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Genocide, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Gore, War, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Grief, Death, Confinement, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Death of parent

its_thekla's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

2.5

This story starts out derivative and dull. It takes nearly half the book for something to actually happen, and even after that so much could be trimmed down. The incessant use of "male" vs "girl" drove me absolutely bonkers. "Female" was smattered around to refer to the women in the story, but my goodness, every man was "that male" or "the male". Every time. It was almost exhausting as how much the characters either spent vomiting, or thinking about vomiting. 
I am usually a sucker for the story-withing-a-story thing. This one didn't quite work for me. I'm not saying I didn't like it, I just thought it's inclusion was poorly executed. 
The setting was fine, the characters were ok, their development interesting but this was absolutely not a story for me. At one point, Asha refers to herself as an "activist". But girl: you're the queen and throughout the duration of the story all she did was use her martyr complex to fall back on all her choices? No ma'am. You can't be an "activist" when you spend all day cooped up in your palace reading or exploring instead of trying to make a difference for the people you tried to convince us you cared so much about in the slums. 
Just so much wasted potential and I will gladly skip the rest of this authors books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Infidelity, Ableism, and Infertility

smkelly1997's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

4.5

This book is very slow in the beginning but overall great. The last 100 pages I couldn’t put it down. One thing I will say was there was a lot of vomit. I saw someone mention this in a review and couldn’t stop noticing it. However overall I highly enjoyed it and I’m excited for the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Violence, Confinement, and Stalking