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emilycbaker's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
1.5
Graphic: Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Grief, Vomit, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Violence, Colonisation, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, and Gun violence
Minor: Animal cruelty
pelledorso's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Trafficking, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Sexism, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, and Racial slurs
Minor: Classism, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual violence, and Vomit
annaledbetter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence and Kidnapping
Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gore, and Addiction
sarah984's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
The cooking and food descriptions are great, and the inventiveness that the main character uses to create meals he knows within the limitations of being at sea are clever and fun.
Unfortunately, the rest of the book is very weird. The book starts out with an almost lighthearted swashbuckling tone, but then veers wildly into a darker type of story where
I feel like a lot of the historical issues were not understood particularly well (multiple characters imply that Americans dumped tea into the sea because of the unethical way it was acquired), which would have been fine in a more fanciful pirate story but not the more serious story the book became.
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, Slavery, Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Gore, Blood, Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Vomit
Minor: Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Addiction, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, and Trafficking
There is a scene where a character is accused of bestiality but he is actually doing something else. (this is played for laughs)