Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Das begabte Kind by Juno Dawson

6 reviews

wizardfire08's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

This had some turns and it is quite descriptive. I would take caution at the accuracy of the TERF and transphobic characters. It is necessary to the plot but it is ugly. On a more positive note, this is such a beautiful story and world. The realness of some themes and connection to reality is sad but that also means the love, hope and fighting to be who you are is true/ worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, War, Transphobia, and Misogyny

Moderate: Deadnaming, Religious bigotry, and Racism

bethhartigan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Child abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal death and Outing

katharina90's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

I enjoyed the themes, like the politics and dynamics at play among the covens and witchy parts of society, but the plot really didn't wow me. It was a little boring. 

The book has LGBTQ and BIPOC rep but I would have liked for Theo to play a bigger, more active part in the story.

I listened to the audiobook and Aiofe McMahon is a favorite narrator so that helped get me through the book when the story dragged.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Fatphobia, Confinement, Violence, Racism, Death, Murder, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Infidelity, and Abandonment

themahtin's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

TW: Transphobia is a major plotline. There's a young trans witch and one of the middle-aged ones believes that the young one is the prophesied witch who's going to like end the world or whatever. There are lots of diverse characters -- it's nice to see that their friend group from their time as witches in training is still together -- and the book is very well-written, but it was very hard to tolerate the transphobia .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Abandonment

lorriss's review against another edition

emotional mysterious

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Transphobia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Car accident, Confinement, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Violence, and War

Moderate: Medical content, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, and Infidelity

Minor: Child death, Excrement, Lesbophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Slavery, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

keya_caivalur's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Hate crime, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Murder, Torture, Outing, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and War

Minor: Bullying, Outing, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Grief