Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

587 reviews

smashbourne_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

dani_365's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Blood, Torture, Death, and Body horror

Minor: Genocide, Death of parent, and Slavery

maidinnah's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

4.5

LGBT necromantic sci-fi is really all I need to say, but I'll go one step further. Gideon the Ninth is a rambunctious, badass murder mystery that drops you into its world with little explanation. I was forced to puzzle out much of GtN's setting for half of the book, which admittedly left me confused much of the time, but once I was in, I was IN. Charismatic characters, especially in the irreverent, sarcastic Gideon. Rich necromancy-based magic systems. Action-packed swordplay and magic fights. I laughed, I grieved, I was chilled to the bone, I had a blast.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

anatomically_acurate_heart's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Minor: Cannibalism

ctara2123's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, and Cursing

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Cannibalism, Terminal illness, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: War

norygraph's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I had already added this book to my list for this year when my half sister recommended it. She said “I’m on my third read through of the series. On your first read through you basically won’t understand anything until after.” Which is advice I’m glad I had coming in. I now understand why she said that. There are mystery stories where you know from the jump what’s happened and watch as the characters figure it out. There are mystery stories where the protagonist knows more than the reader and explains everything at the end. This is neither. We know what Gideon knows. Nothing more(in fact somewhat less).

Every time I thought this book couldn’t shock me it did. I can’t wait to read the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Terminal illness, Confinement, Self harm, and Chronic illness

Minor: Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Cannibalism

sopbee's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Violence

rkivewonderland's review against another edition

2.5

Maybe this is just a me thing but for a long cast of characters I felt it unnecessarily confusing to sometimes  their nicknames, then first or last names randomly. I don’t mind flipping back and forth but having to do that and say in the story became stressful because the names were already unusual. I didn’t start enjoying it until the last 5 chapters and it that was the beginning of the story I wouldn’t have mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Death

chloe5454's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, Violence, Abandonment, Classism, Body horror, Child abuse, Blood, Cursing, Cancer, Confinement, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Cannibalism, Genocide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infertility

waverleymoran's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide