Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

34 reviews

rachel_kay5853's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.25

Definitely tried to subvert the colonizer/colonized romance thing, but I’m not sure it was entirely effective in making it okay. 

The pacing was kinda all over the place, sometimes taking forever for anything to happen, and then bam 5 things have happened and we’re 1000 miles away. This particularly happens with travel.

The magic system is really cool and I like how it develops throughout the book and gets added to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Colonisation

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

katievallin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

adonis_march's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

The Wolf and the Woodsman is a debut novel. It’s got the clunk of one. But by god, is it a good debut novel. For all my issues with some of the tropes in this book, and it’s pacing, and occasionally meandering plot, the latter half of this novel had my heart pounding, my stomach doing turns.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, and Kidnapping

This is a book very much about the horrific history and acts of Christian zealotry that caused both pagan and Jewish communities to be wiped out, and echoes the centuries of fear and grief that the Jewish community has had to endure since.

dainybernstein's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

The premise of the book is good, but the execution is lacking. When I looked up the author and saw she studied ethnonationalism and religion, it all made sense. This is an intellectually sound story-experiment, but the characters' changes in emotion are abrupt and don't fully make sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: War

bookleafcrow's review

adventurous dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

i read this back in september and i really enjoyed it, the ending fell a little flat for me but i loved evike and gaspar individually and together, and the magic system and world-building is stunning

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

saurahsaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Self harm, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Infidelity and War

sydapel's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful slow-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

4.0

A deeply vivid and striking book about religion, imperialism and mythology that doesn't shy away from the violence that accompanies shifts in power and in belief systems. I love when fantasy books center a person who isn't born with anything distinctly special about her, who has to struggle to overcome her own sense of place in her world, and the author does this so well with Évike. There are really interesting discussions within the story about hate and prejudice that resound today and the world building is done shockingly well for a debut. I don't know if this is a story that will continue, but it's one I would absolutely continue to follow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Torture, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: War

maiadunleavy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Genocide, Colonisation, and Deportation