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sweetteaandfiction's review
- 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
5.0
PROS:
🍄Ancestral Magic
🍄🟫Immortality
🍄Eldritch Beings
🍄🟫The Trio
🍄The Rip in the Fabric of the World
🍄🟫Slightly
🍄Mama
🍄🟫Powerful Witches
🍄Beauty in decay
CONS:
🍄🟫Power Hungry Men
🍄Spiders
🍄🟫A SPLASH of Body Horror
🍄There is a slight divergence in the story line, but it just left me wanting more of the other characters stories
🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐out of 5 over protective old goats
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Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder
callistag1's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury
amacmanus'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? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
stardustandrockets's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury
saucy_bookdragon's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
Also, I felt the use of Wicca was just cliche and leaned into stereotypes that pagan religions are demonic/evil. Not saying that's what the author was intending, rather that's how I read it. With that said, I am not very familiar with Wicca nor the author and so do not know how accurately it was portrayed, so take it with a grain of salt and correct me if I'm wrong.
Graphic: Death, Gore, and Blood
Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
modernmatilda's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death
cjdbooks1's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
leahjanespeare's review
3.0
The Whispering Dark was one of my favorite books of 2022 and was a knockout debut. Sadly, this sophomore novel was a slump for me, and I am crushed.
The ideas were there, the atmosphere were there, but I think it needed tightening up, and more clarity on the magic system and dynamics between the main characters. I kept losing track of who was 'good' and who was 'evil' - and no it's not because they were morally gray, I was trying to keep track of motives and why anybody was doing what they were doing. Also a character had two names, I think? I thought it was a narrator inconsistancy but then later on it was clear that no, he had two variations of his name. And who was I supposed to be rooting for romance wise? I think it was a love triangle but I am actually not sure.
Also, the similarities to The Raven Boys were SO STRONG that I couldn't help but compare it and since Raven Boys is one of my all time fav series, this one didn't have a chance.
(farm setting, dead parents, weird magic, curses, barn-set, love triangle, undead animals, twisted friend groups, sentient environment)
ANYWAY I hope the next one is better.
Moderate: Body horror and Blood
nikki_saulnier's review
- 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
4.0
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
nostoat's review against another edition
5.0
They'd dreamed together. They'd fought together. And eventually - reluctantly - they'd grown together.
"You're mine. You and Peter. You always have been." / "People don't belong to people." / "Don't they? I take care of what's mine."
He could only remember James. The way he laughed, lit from beneath by a firefly glow. He could only remember Wyatt, and the way the skies thundered when he kissed her that first impossible time.
This book hit me in the same place that remembering reading Narnia, watching Little Woman (2019), and watching my nieces and nephews grow up while contemplating the flow of my own life between my fingers does. Which is to say, it hit me in the gut with all the force of a freight train with emotions about childhood, growing up, leaving it all behind, being haunted by the ghosts of the past good and bad and complicated. It doesn't matter how grey the skies were, the golden moments of joy still ache like taking a bite of fresh from the freezer ice cream. I feel it in my teeth, in my bones, in my soul. This book is one long "you can't go back, god, you can't go back, you just can't ever go back."
It's also a story about three people so deeply deeply entangled, it's as though the green sap of Willow Heath runs through all their veins. It's always the three of them, you see. There is hate, there is anger, there is violence and blood and crying and kissing. And at the end of it all there they are. What relationship between three people who grew up under the heavy thumb of a strange, pressing ritual guild could possibly come out normal in the wash? Their hands are bloody for each other; their arms locked in an embrace nothing could possibly break. Is it romance? Sure I guess. I don't know. I'm aromantic. To me, this is simply the deepest well of devotion that could possibly exist; bigger than romance. Deeper than romance.
There is so much pain in this book, but there is also power. Andrew, in my opinion, balances the power dynamics so deftly on a knife's edge. It's thrilling. It's delicious. I felt like I was reading a feast spread just for me.
Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Medical content