Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Street Magic by Tamora Pierce

6 reviews

charm0nix's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Kidnapping

Moderate: Slavery, Abandonment

Minor: Fatphobia, Trafficking, Classism

charm0nix's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Kidnapping

Moderate: Slavery, Abandonment

Minor: Fatphobia, Trafficking, Classism

pedanther's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Abandonment

Minor: Drug use, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Excrement, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, Pandemic/Epidemic

libcolleen's review against another edition

3.5

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I wish there were a way to read about Briar and Evvy without gangs and violence. It's quite upsetting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

xinawebb's review against another edition

4.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Slavery, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

ladydisdain's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Definitely my least favorite of the series. While I love Rosethorn, Briar, and Evvy as characters, adn love all their interactions, the "street kid 4 lyfe/rival gangs" subplot really doesn't do anything for me. I do think because it very explicitly not FOR me- I'm a white, lower middle class permanent suburbanite. I can't speak to any echoes of someone else's experience of life as to realism or appropriate amount of character motivation, I simply have no frame of reference for this world beyond other fiction. 

To the positive, this villain is CHILLING. I will still have a physical reaction to some of her scenes as an adult. The build and final explosion of the climax saves the whole book for me- Briar unleashed definitely gives shades of Daine's "I got angry" moment in Emperor Mage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping