Reviews tagging 'Death'

Monstress Book Two by Marjorie Liu

3 reviews

cephalopodspy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cursing, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Grief, War, Confinement, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

jessthanthree's review

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Xenophobia, Slavery, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Cannibalism, Body horror, War, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Child death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Death of parent

inamerata's review

adventurous dark mysterious

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Medical trauma, Torture, Gore, War, Violence, Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Grief

There is also fantasy racism/xenophobia among various species. This is often blended with fantasy religious bigotry, with some parallels to Christianity.