Reviews tagging 'Biphobia'

These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling

32 reviews

fanboyriot's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

Read For:

✓ Witches 

✓ Mystery Plot

✓ Good Friends 

✓ LGBTQIA+ Characters

✓ Witch Hunter (we hate you)

˗ˏˋ ★ REVIEW ★ ˎˊ˗

I have mixed feelings about this book but ultimately it was an entertaining read.  I liked the magic and the mystery of who the hunter was.  The friendships were also really nice for the most part.  And the one friendship I was rightfully cautious about ended how I expected.

I wasn’t a big fan of Veronica and all the relationship drama she brought to Hannah’s life.  The character development was good though with how Veronica changed by the end but she was pretty toxic at some parts of this book.  The ending though really annoyed me.  I know there is a second book which I’ll be reading but this ending felt too incomplete with having the witch hunter not be caught.

Spice Level: (it’s mentioned)

Angst Level: 💧💧💧

POV: First Person

Release Date: 28, May 2019

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Sexism

ellezagna's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Biphobia

epeolatrist's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death and Toxic relationship

Minor: Biphobia and Homophobia

rafacolog's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Death, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

softwindflower's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Biphobia and Lesbophobia

agnela's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

sophie42's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

wishbea's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

The characters weren't very compelling, the magic was interesting and story was okay but Veronica is abusive, manipulative and hypocritical and I hated reading about her, and because Hannah isn't over her ex, she spends a lot of time thinking about Veronica.

Many of the characters are stupid, including Hannah herself and every single responsible adult character that just let Hannah and Veronica wander about and do whatever they want despite the danger to their lives. Gemma's dialogue in particular got worse as the book went on, becoming extremely generic, Morgan was fine but it felt like she was just there to make the point of not all insert group of people only portrayed as being terrible up to this point are bad.

I will happily praise how this book deals with a teenager grieving though, it felt realistic, you can tell how raw Hannah is at that point and her actions are driven by those feelings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Biphobia, Cursing, and Stalking

kaylee1957's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-paced

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

2.0

Felt like it was going to be a fast paced adventure with action, and solving the who dun it in fun YA Queer Magical setting, but unfortunately it was slow paced lacking action to drive the plot and focused on the teenage drama rather than character building and the plot

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Gun violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

lailaspacekate's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Vomit, and Car accident