Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

23 reviews

terratops's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Murder, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Dysphoria and Dementia

erkoning's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

I found this to be a really beautiful story. I fell in love with the characters, and got very invested in their journeys.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Blood, Death, Child death, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Gore and Bullying

Minor: Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Acephobia/Arophobia, Dysphoria, Dementia, and War

The book centers around

murders

. There are many things mentioned from the worlds that the children have gone to. The book clearly condemns the transphobia, but there is a "mean girl" type who intentionally and repeatedly calls a trans boy a girl. Past acephobia is mentioned by an ace character, from her own perspective. Dementia is mentioned, but not gone into depth.

blombern's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

Very interesting concept. It's all about a boarding school for children who return from portal worlds and are not accepted by their parents who want them to get better. I personally did not like this book, as it turned into a murder mystery fairly quickly. I also didn't like the explanations of the portal worlds themselves as they were put into weird categories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

lonelylooper's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Transphobia, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Bullying, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Dysphoria and Acephobia/Arophobia

huntress's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Dysphoria and Acephobia/Arophobia

lady_of_the_labyrinth's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

mayaism_01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

I've been dredged up from the depths of an intense month-long reading slump by this book and I adored every page! After reading many 500+ page fantasy books it is truly a feat when you read a fantasy book that has mind-boggling (positive) world-building, an incredible cast of characters you can get invested in, and lovely prose all packed nice and concisely in less than 174 pages!

I've read from Seanan McGuire before under her pen name Mira Grant, and though I enjoyed the book I wasn't really in love with Into the Drowning Deep because of its slow pace and slightly convoluted story. This feels like a complete 180 in both style and content and I'm definitely a lot more interested in picking up more by McGuire, especially within this series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Eating disorder, Kidnapping, and Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming and Dysphoria

lapuce1006's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Bullying, Body horror, Acephobia/Arophobia, Vomit, Transphobia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, and Dysphoria

ksmith_23's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Dysphoria, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Torture, Transphobia, and Cursing

cj13's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Moderate: Transphobia, Murder, Gore, Acephobia/Arophobia, Bullying, and Dysphoria