Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

10 reviews

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Bullying, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, and Sexism

Minor: Religious bigotry and Sexual content

seforana's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Violence

phantomgecko's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

I read a lot of horse books in elementary school. In hindsight, they're usually boring. (Sorry Marguerite Henry) But idk, I kept reading them because horses are cool?

This is a horse book, even a RACE horse book, that for real isn't boring. Possibly because the horses in question are mythical creatures that kill.

A cute little love story wrapped in adventure. Also with frustrating undertones of misogyny. Also paganism? There's kinda a lot in this one. Maybe part of the charm is the ambiguous imaginary world created.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Sexism, and Bullying

starreddust's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Animal death

Moderate: Sexism, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Grief, Alcohol, Murder, Bullying, Cursing, Abandonment, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Gore and Body horror

debussy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

Ugh, this was disgustingly good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Bullying, Sexism, Death, Animal cruelty, and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent

unicornrhyfedd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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: Animal cruelty, Blood, and Animal death

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Cursing, and Violence

Minor: Bullying and Death of parent

kommatator's review against another edition

emotional

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Blood, Sexism, Violence, and Bullying

lectora21's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Minor: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, and Sexism

marieketron's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-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

I was expecting the plot to take a pattern similar to the hunger games, with the races taking place around the mid point. As instead the race only happens at the end, I felt like the plot dragged a bit. But in the end I also feel like the slow village life and romance made for proper worldbuilding and atmosphere setting, so if you’re into that this may be the book for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Sexism

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.25

Nothing I want to say about this book does it justice:

"For if you want to read a book about E Nesbit style orphans, but also with killer fairy horses!"

Or,

"An enjoyable read. Very pleasant."

 But the upshot is, this book had a different mood from what I anticipated, but I enjoyed it, and will be adding other books by the author to my TBR. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Bullying

Minor: Animal death