Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Den femte årstiden by N.K. Jemisin

113 reviews

icewindgale's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Torture

ghostofefrant's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Classism, Death, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Bullying, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

audino's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

5.0

Such a page-turner from start to finish! The core mystery had me so curious I was taking memos and writing down all my theories. I loved the way Jemisin played with POVs, it added so much to the storytelling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Violence, Racism, and Sexual content

zaharya's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.75

I struggled to get into it in the beginning, but once it clicked I devoured this.
The characterisation is brilliant! The world building is very unique, and delivered very well as it gradually expanded.
Definitely darker than I initially expected — I went in knowing basically nothing about it, so that’s not very difficult — but not in a way that felt like it was just for shock. 
The writing itself is extremely good, and the second person POV is an interesting change from the usual third or first person — which are also included though.
Definitely picking up the second one right away.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Racism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Torture, and Slavery

Minor: Cannibalism and Sexual content

bersblue's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.75

I forgive Jemisin for the sex scenes (personally I don't like them, but here they are well written), but I will never forgive this ending. I'm in tears. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cannibalism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Body horror, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Violence, War, Pregnancy, and Torture

cantfindmybookmark's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Trafficking, Slavery, and Torture

vivavia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Slavery, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Torture, Vomit, Violence, and Classism

cptnstphy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

Fascinating what Jemison is capable of! The story unfolds in very unexpected and exciting ways. I knew early on that I would have to read it twice to really understand it, and I look forward to doing so. The worldbuilding is strong and the characters mysterious and interesting, and the reader can feel connected to them in some ways despite the fantasy-inflicted differences.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Slavery, Blood, Confinement, Murder, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Medical trauma, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Cannibalism, and Vomit

aprilincognito's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Torture, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Cannibalism

bestdressman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

A phenomenally diverse book from racial, ethnic, and queer standpoints, N. K. Jemison manages to casually weave all of these elements together in a normalized background to the greater science fiction that is the Stillness. I felt transported into the world in a deep and imaginative way. I love when I can read fiction in a way that makes me feel I could study the history of a world for years and still not understand it, and Jemisen's worldbuilding ABSOLUTELY does this. For the first time as a white reader, I noticed I was envisioning most characters as people of color, and the deep storytelling that occurred along the way brought me to tears. It's wild that I haven't read this until now, and I wish I had been handed something like this FAR earlier in my life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Torture, Murder, Violence, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Child death

somewhat detailed torturous description of individuals with superhuman abilities being medically incapacitated and used as tools

brief scene in which a mother kills her own child for self-preservation and prevention of child slavery