Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

11 reviews

elorathesun's review

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Murder, War, Grief, Self harm, and Gore

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Self harm, Animal death, Trafficking, Transphobia, Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Slavery, and Panic attacks/disorders

softanimal's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed this book and I love Gronichec's writing but it didn't grab me as much as the Witch's Heart. I couldn't help comparing the two unfortunately. But still a wonderful story and telling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Outing

Minor: Outing, Vomit, Slavery, and Rape

aformeracceleratedreader's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

As someone who loved The Witch's Heart, I had high hopes for this. It unfortunately doesn't come close to how much I loved the author's previous work, but I still really enjoyed it. Love that one character is explicitly demi-sexual with stating how they can't do intimacy without really knowing someone first (love the ace/aro rep) and one character is trans. Overall loved the story and the little twists/reveals. The main characters are good as well even though they frustrated me at times throughout. Many of the minor characters were great though.
I will say there are a lot of slow spots for me and I didn't have the same intense emotions reading it as the authors previous book, and those are big reasons it wasn't a 5star read like The Witch's Heart for me. I will still totally look forward to any books or work this author does in the future!
Check trigger/content warnings although nothing was super graphic stuff was still detailed and mentioned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Vomit

jennp28's review against another edition

adventurous informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

Really enjoyed this one! I love finding new eras of historical fiction to enjoy and Viking-era Scandinavia is one I’ve not read about before. The addition of magic/mythology made it even better. Loved the rep of women taking on “male” roles, the inclusion of what would today be recognized as a trans person… so much good stuff! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

mzgeee53's review

adventurous dark emotional informative tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Animal death, Blood, War, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Slavery, Death, Physical abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Murder, Child abuse, Alcohol, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, Medical content, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

netanya_shira's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Blood, Sexual assault, Slavery, Animal death, Rape, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Violence, Grief, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual content, and War

reka111's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

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

4.5

One of you clouds the futures of the others. For better or worse, your fates are intertwined

Genevieve did it again, she enchanted me. I liked this book as much as The Witch's Heart, but it didn't have such a strong effect on me. Honestly, I've been waiting for decades to read it, and now I regret waiting so long because I liked it immensely.

Gunnhild was probably my favourite, not only because she was so strong and cunning, but also because she had a bit of Angrboda in her—at least in my opinion, anyway, I really liked her. Signy and Oddny (whose names I read through half the book as Odin and Sigyn) have been through so much, especially the former, but I believe their wounds will heal, and their broken parts will heal again because they deserve it, more than anything. Although the former was not in the book, I was terribly hurt by her absence, I was excited about her along with Oddny and Gunnhild, I really was. Of the other characters, Erik may stand out, and for good reason; A king cannot be overlooked. He was a terribly difficult and complicated character, maybe he could have done better, but eventually he shows that he is capable of compassion and forgiveness, he was not a monster, but he was not an angel. 

The plot was easy to follow, and I really liked that this time we were transported back to the Scandinavian 10th century (the Norwegian one). So much, so much I needed a historical fantasy for my soul, oh my goodness! Although there are scattered foreign words in the text, they do not make reading difficult at all. The phrasing was beautiful — as always. The only problem I had was the pace, which was too fast for me and there were plenty of time jumps, but apart from that, it was perfectly fine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Moderate: Trafficking, Kidnapping, Transphobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape and Slavery

kenley11's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Trafficking and Sexual content

sarasreading's review

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

4.0

This book was great! At first I was worried it was going to be a bit slow, with too many characters, but it wasn't. The book picked up right away and I was never bored. I used to really enjoy the show Vikings, and the cultural elements in this were vivid to me as I could already picture so many aspects of Nordic life. 

The magic system and world building were great, and I was really invested in the characters' relationships, and surprise representation I wasn't expecting. 

After also loving The Witch's Heart by this author, I think they've become an auto-read for me now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Animal death

Moderate: Transphobia, Murder, Trafficking, and Medical content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

tamara_joy's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The Viking Age setting really comes alive. Halfway through, I didn't like the book - all the terrible decisions being made were bothering me. But by the end it picked up again and carried the story through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Trafficking, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Classism, Gore, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Murder, Outing, Slavery, and Deportation