Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling

43 reviews

julessssss's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

very cute, with just the right mixture of fantasy and realism, and plenty of plot twists

the only thing is that it is definitely ya and that bothered me just a bit a few times lol 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

cristinareading's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death of parent

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

auri_underthing'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? No

4.5

Three words to describe this book:
Crackle. Power. Pain.

I was kind of expecting this book to be more on the gentle side, I did not expect it to rip my heart into pieces. 
Brilliant. Must read the second one. 
Content warning: (which is also kind of a spoiler)

Death of a parent. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, and Car accident

laurenlo29's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

koraisreadingnow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.75

If not for Veronica's character bugging the complete shit out of me, i would have given this book a 5 out of 5. I normally don't cry at books (especially when my suspicions were confirmed) so this one really surprised me. I already got the second book, beside me so i'm excited to read more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Genocide, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Outing

bloomingdruid's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, and Car accident

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

thewellbitch's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

3.75

It's a 3.75 - 4.0 range. More entertaining that I initially thought and will gladly read the sequel. Fantastic job from the narrator (Kristen DiMercurio). The world building/rules of the witches is simple but interesting, but I hated

the use of "reg" to speak of magicless humans 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Stalking, and Alcohol

karapillar's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-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

3.5

Now I came in expecting a light cozy mystery with witches and lgbtq rep. This book is definitely not cozy, has a handful of tragic moments in addition to homophobia  & manipulative ex’s who gaslight/emotionally damage their ex girlfriend’s. Hannah on her own of course has a lot going for her as do Gemma and Morgan. Unfortunately, a few of the plot lines I kind of sort of already saw planned out when certain key words from the dialogue jump out at you. Overall, I do wish there had been more people of color (for a novel set in what I assume is “present day” Salem you would think more diversity in skin tone would have made an appearance ? But you write what you are familiar with and possibly Sterling wasn’t ready yet to write a poc character.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death

Minor: Homophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, and Car accident