Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Centaur's Wife by Amanda Leduc

5 reviews

erinbrenner's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Violence, Medical trauma, and Gun violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abandonment, Cursing, Child death, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Xenophobia, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

mollyrook's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I was intrigued by this book, but I didn’t ever really connect with it. I didn’t really buy any of the relationships in the book, and I didn’t think it ended up anywhere particularly satisfying. I did really like the fairy tales woven throughout.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

Almost everyone dies at the start of the book. Pregnancy is a big theme, and Heather’s twin babies die horribly during the book.

bdingz's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Ableism, Child death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

avisreadsandreads's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Bullying and Fire/Fire injury

for_esme_with_love's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• 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

3.0

Leduc weaves a mesmerizing fairytale around the nagging feeling that the very ground beneath us wishes humankind would go extinct. This book has an incredible concept with intriguing characters and strong dis/ability themes. Like many fairytales, The Centaur's Wife gets GRIM and I got stuck around the middle point when the characters were being put through a very slow descent into misery. I had to put it down for a few weeks. When I did pick it up again the book did have a strong ending, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to the right person!

(I don't have fully formed thoughts on this but I feel like there is something about indigeneity that is missing from this book. Curious to see if there are any takes on this.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion, Bullying, and Violence

Not a fluffy read!!!