Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Street Magic by Tamora Pierce

8 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

quasinaut's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A reread, though I barely remember this book from when I first read it years ago. As always, Tamora Pierce does a masterful job introducing a new setting and characters. I loved Evvy's sass and her cats!

Overall, a solid story that shows Briar begin to reframe his past belief in gangs as necessary for protection, but there were many elements that grated on me -- Rosethorn correcting Briar's speech, Jebilu's negative portrayal through his fatness, the fact that 14-year-olds were made full mages yet weren't told what that would entail for them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia

coinmanatee's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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 death

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

frantic_vampire's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted 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: Complicated

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I thinks it’s been something like 15ish years since the last time I read this book, and let me tell you, it still holds up. Everything about this book is still just as fun and interesting as it was when I was a kid. It’s just been really nice to dive back into a series that brings back so many memories and nostalgia.

I really liked that we got to see a different side to Briar than we did in The Circle of Magic. He was so reluctant to teach Evvy, but he was also incredibly supportive of her doing things and learning in her own way. I loved that Briar found a student that was just as stubborn as he (and the rest of his friends/family) was. I also really liked that we got to see somewhere new within this world. Street Magic is getting four stars and I’m excited to jump into the next one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Slavery