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- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Medical content
Minor: Sexual content
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexism, and Medical content
Minor: Suicide
Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and War
Minor: Domestic abuse and Alcohol
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Classism
Minor: Sexual content
3.75
- THE WITCH’S DAUGHTER falls into the memoir category of Messed Up Childhoods, and if you gravitate toward that kind of memoir, you should definitely pick this one up.
- The narration flips between past an present, the context for and understanding of Orenda’s mother’s borderline personality disorder becoming clearer for both Orenda and the reader as the book advances.
- Fink is so empathetic toward all her family members, and illustrates precisely why it’s so hard to disentangle oneself from a situation like this.
- Additionally, Fink was a member of the band Azure Ray, so there’s some really delicious name dropping if you were a fan of Saddle Creek Records bands at their peak.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Ableism and Sexual assault
Minor: Gun violence
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Suicide
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
- After loving I’D RATHER BURN THAN BLOOM and now EIGHTEEN ROSES, I’ll offically read anything Shannon C.F. Rogers writes.
- Lucia is a hater of the first degree, and I loved her, spiky edges and all.
- Rogers blends together the broad injustices of being a teenager with the specific struggles of being Filipina-American and of fighting to make ends meet.
- There are so many plot threads in this book that I worried about it going off the rails, but Rogers brings them all together perfectly at the end. Best of all, Lucia grows and learns without losing the essence of herself.
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Cursing and Colonisation
Minor: Cancer