A review by asahome
Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

3.75

TL;DR: A young woman must put aside her personal feelings in order to learn to control her magic. A new teacher helps her learn that Elsa (from Frozen) has a better way of dealing with her emotions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Bullying, Vomit, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

Ableism:

the people in charge of the healers sect are unwilling to help people suffering from depression and anxiety and are unwilling to recognize it as a problem

Medical Content:

the main characters are healers, they deal with all things medical

Death of Parent, Vomit:

the parent vomits flower petals and there is a worry it will kill him

Warnings from the Inside Cover: absent parent, anxiety and depression, body horror, emesis, fantasy substance abuse, medical issues, non-consensual enchantment