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danajoy's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia
Moderate: Death, War, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Infidelity, and Grief
jhbandcats's review against another edition
- 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
The author does a great job at showing the different personalities, not so easy when there are a lot of characters. The women are no longer close like in childhood; there’s friction between the power-hungry head of England’s coven, the mild witch who pretends to be a simple housewife, the Black lesbian who started her own LGBTQ-friendly coven, and the veterinarian consumed with grief at the loss of her fiancé during the witch war eight years ago. There are spouses and lovers and children and parents and, new to the group, a trans orphan who’s terrified and lashing out in fear. The story is told from four points of view and the voices are distinct.
I read reviews where the readers felt the race and gender issues overshadowed the story. I thought the author raised really important points relevant to current racism, homophobia, and transphobia. The transphobia was heavy-handed but it seemed realistic given what I read online.
I liked it enough where I’m about to start the second in the series. I want to see what happens to these people.
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Bullying, Classism, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Racism, Blood, Abandonment, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, and Grief
livcashmere's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Murder, Violence, War, Grief, Child abuse, Death, and Transphobia
melaniesmolter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Violence, Death, Transphobia, and Homophobia
bessadams's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Transphobia, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Racism, Murder, and War
Minor: Infidelity, Child abuse, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent
wizardfire08's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Violence, War, Transphobia, and Misogyny
Moderate: Deadnaming, Religious bigotry, and Racism
kaceyjoy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Death, Outing, Violence, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Torture, Animal death, Transphobia, and Abandonment
Minor: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Body shaming
ashley_reya's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Dawson writes a wonderful story of how sisterhood, ignorance, and fear can truly muddy the waters of a coven. A coming of age of mixed with the trials and tribulations of an older group of friends. It’s always so refreshing to read stories of older friend groups/people not in their twenties hahaha.
Graphic: Transphobia, Violence, Deadnaming, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Domestic abuse, War, Kidnapping, Blood, and Car accident
Minor: Child abuse
itsy719's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Child abuse, Outing, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Sexism, Violence, Car accident, Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Body shaming
l1ndz7's review against another edition
4.25
We follow four POVs of witches:
Niamh - one of the most powerful witches in the story who is a healer and sentient. She is no longer apart of HMRC (Her Majesty’s Royal Coven)
Elle - a healer who is also not a part of HMRC actively. She has a witch daughter named Holly and a non-magical or mundane husband and son named Jez and Milo
Leonie - she left HMRC to create her own more inclusive coven called Dispora that mostly includes minorities. She has a witchy gf named Chinara
Helena - current High Priestess of HMRC who has a daughter named Snow who is an elemental witch
There is a premonition that the Leviathan will rise and extinguish the witches and warlocks of the UK. When a really powerful child is found after a magical incident at their school in Scotland happens, Helena has the child named Theo locked up thinking this child is how the Leviathan will rise. What happens next you won’t see coming.
The ending shocked me and I’m really not sure if I care to continue the series because of the direction the book is going in. TBD
Graphic: Transphobia
Moderate: Violence and Death