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valerian_honeybee'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
4.75
Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Racism
reinik'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: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, Medical content, and Alcohol
Minor: Confinement and Gore
danny_fox'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? No
4.5
And as fun as the beginning of the book was, unfortunately, the ending left me a bit disappointed.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it was extremely enjoyable and delightful to read. I still adore this book series and characters.
Buuuut, after all 300 pages, I don't know, the ending left me just a bit empty and disappointed. Like it was all leading up to something, and then the author was like "actually, you need to read another 500 pages to get to that something"
Still, extremely fun, love the story, adore the characters.
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping
Minor: Gun violence and Sexual assault
leonormsousa'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? No
4.0
Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
celestihel'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
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Blood and Kidnapping
Minor: Cursing, Gore, and Alcohol
frannyd'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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
emilyg0663'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? It's complicated
3.75
Wayward Son shows Simon, Baz and Penelope in a new light, and a completely different world! If the first book, Simon and Penelope have magic and can hold their own in a fight, Baz too. But here, they are completely unmatched but extremely lucky!! Every situation, every fight, they are either completely defeated or won but beaten up to exhaustion. They are broken and depressed and dragging their feet as they travel through this book, which made me feel helpless.
This makes me extremely nervous for the characters, as they are not good heroes anymore. They can’t do anything right, and even Penelope has no plan which is completely a left field! I actually don’t feel as strongly attached to the characters anymore compared with the first book. <Spoilers> Penelope is an arrogant ‘know it all’ who actually is just a child who knows nothing, Simon is a broken human who has lost his reason for life but is brash and jumps into trouble every second he can. I was absolutely furious with Simon for this, wanted to smack him and tell him ‘sit down!’ And Baz did the most growth as to finding about more about himself, but he’d tided down to my most hated troupe; strained relationships over miscommunication……..
Other thing that stressed me out was the fact that every group hates eachother for biases that they created. Everyone is doing wrong things and blaming the other groups for their misfortunes. It made me realised that there is no good guy in these books, that I don’t root for the vampires, the mages orange creatures. I don’t even root for Simon!
I can’t wait for book 3
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, and Classism
Minor: Kidnapping
vaguely_pink'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: Animal death, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol
courtnoodles'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
5.0
Whoever said this was disappointing didn't read the same book.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Alcohol
Minor: Body horror and Stalking
manarnia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death and Alcohol
Minor: Death of parent