Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

La bruja blanca by Shelby Mahurin

35 reviews

safety_pin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death and Self harm

victoriacp769's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-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

4.0

I think this is a great book, not the best one I read, but it’s good and I love this type of stories. Something I will say is that it was really difficult for me to read at the beginning, cause I found the first part of the book really slow and not much was happening.. but then in the second part of the book all the things you where holding on to starts happening, all the spicyness, the challenges, the mistery, everything. It really starts being entertaining and captivating. Also, in the third part of the book it continues on being that way, which is good, but something I did notice is that the author started rushing everything in the last chapters. In the last chapters there is tooo many things going on and too many plot twist and in a certain way it can be good but for me it was really rushed and uneven considering all the other chapters of the book. Also, the end was wayyy too open, I know that maybe she wanted to do that so that more readers would want to reach to the sequel, but personally I think it was a really confusing ending. 
Anyways, the book is good, really good, but the writing was not the best.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

prof_pelon's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

emmahe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Child death

kaitlynnnng's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-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

2.5

Some of the dialogue at the beginning  was cringey and awkward, but that went away.

The ending clearly sets up Blood & Honey, but is satisfying enough for Serpent & Dove to be a stand-alone book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Suicide, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, and Vomit

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-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

4.0

Never have I been so simultaneously delighted and frustrated to read the rest of a series. I love the characters in this book. I don’t think I fully understand the plot, but the characters are strong enough in any situation that knowing the storyline isn’t completely necessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

lizzyluck's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Vomit

croisan's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood, and Abandonment

corvidprince's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.25

I've heard mixed opinions about this book from other people, but I'm glad I gave it a shot because I loved it. I did find some of the dialogue kind of cheesy, but overall the character interactions weren't awful. I found the magic system interesting, and as someone who loves complicated magic systems, this book's magic system is a favorite. I can't wait to delve into it more in the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Abandonment