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The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

153 reviews

7cleo7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Violence, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Minor: Body shaming and War

haley_mil_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Sexism, Torture, Vomit, and War

worththecandle's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Antisemitism, and Murder

Minor: Genocide and Sexual content

cloud_of_eden's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

eh. another mid one for me. the prose is gorgeous but i didn’t care about the characters enough to want to root for them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexism and Suicide

earth_to_mars's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal death, Antisemitism, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual content, and War

city_girl_writer's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This was a really good fantasy debut from Ava Reid. A story about religion, tradition, and identity with a slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance steeped in history and Jewish mythology. Reid's writing is more grounded here than A Study in Drowning (my first work by them), so I would recommend this book to non-flowery writing fantasy readers. I got lost a little bit towards the end, but more of a me-problem than a book-problem in my honest opinion. Nonetheless, I am glad I read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal death, Self harm, Antisemitism, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content and War

thefatladyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.25

If I was rating this book by the last third, maybe even the last half, it would definitely have scored higher. The pacing of the book felt uneven, however, with the first half being a slog with just enough potential to keep me from consigning to the DNF pile (that is, it came close enough this was a second attempt, as I'd started and put it aside after about a third more than a year ago). Part of the issue is that things felt-more heavy handed and repetitive in trying to show the world-building and character development, to the point where I was essentially going, "I get it already, move the story on!" and some of the buildup didn't lead to the payoff expected of it as a result. Still, I gave the book a second chance and I will give the author another chance, as there is definitely that sparkle of potential in this book and the author's writing, that perhaps a different editor or a little more time might serve better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Violence, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

aidareads's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

ska1224's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Self harm, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

kyeruhh's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

3.5

Things I liked:

• The world building/lord
• Actual enemies to lovers
• The prose

Things I didn’t:

• Very gory imo - my fault for not checking CWs first though
• A lot of info dumping (at least the info was interesting)
• To me, the pacing was odd

Overall I enjoyed it for something that is quite out of my typical wheelhouse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Death of parent