Reviews tagging 'Death'

These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling

65 reviews

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: Car accident, Kidnapping, Blood, and Death

koraisreadingnow's review

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

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

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

42_books_42's review

adventurous mysterious 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? N/A

4.5

It is an really nice book especially if you like books about witches. Furthermore it has some interesting plottwists I didn’t expected to happen. Moreover it is quite easy to get into the story and follow it along. All in all it was just an really nice book🫶 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

katattack345's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

It was fine. I thought it was an easy but fun read. Just a tad predictable for my taste. It is YA and I am no longer that so it could be why. 

 I probably won’t continue the series but it was a nice read. I would recommend it to the youths though

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Death

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

jodierose14's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Violence

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

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, and Stalking

ivy_oak's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Death, and Murder

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: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Violence, Stalking, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

laura007's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

So, this book was not bad. I mean we love a good queer book. The long chapters made the reading quite harder especially in the beginning. I really appreciated the small details

like when the MC gave Morgan flowers in the colors of the bi pride flag, not lying when I tell you I would immediately marry someone who would do this for me

and it was action packed, which I really enjoyed reading. There were some actually decent plot twists

Like when we find out that Benton or what is his name is the Hunter, I actually suspected it in the scene with family portraits, but then I completely forgot about it and I was shocked to be right

. The Sapphic representation was so good. 

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Content Warnings

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

patienceholmes's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Murder, Medical content, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury