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tak_everlasting's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore, Racism, and Abandonment
Minor: Colonisation and War
bibliowhore's review against another edition
5.0
- book within a book
- wide-eyed logophile folks with fervent longing for adventure
- escapism from the ugliness and/or banality of life by traveling through different wondrous worlds—both literally and figuratively (which im doing rn—the latter, i mean)
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
popsicleplease'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? No
4.5
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Gun violence
nmoji'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
5.0
Moderate: Racism, Blood, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Gun violence and Violence
k_galloway's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
mariposa517'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? No
4.25
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Stalking, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and War
sshinesea'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? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Abandonment
Minor: Gun violence
carleneb's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
brittanyboston18'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
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
bittennailbooks's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
A standalone, historical fantasy that casts a lens over the archaeologies contribution to colonization. January Scaller is a curiosity, she is the ward of wealthy Mr. Locke, an artificer that is the head of a highly prestigious archaeological society. January's birth father provides Mr. Locke with artifacts from all over the world in exchange for raising January. After telling Mr. Locke of passing through a magical door to another world as a child, Mr. Locke decides it is time to put an end to his ward's childish imagination. Putting away her childish fantasies, January is offered a prestigious membership into the archaeological society that Mr. Locke runs on her 17th birthday, unheard of for a woman of a colour. Refusing to be another cog in the machine of colonialism, January refuses and upon finding out her father has gone missing on an excursion, January's life is turned upside down. Her only escape maybe the fabled doors in which she once passed through as a small child, it's existence hidden in her old leather bound book called "Ten Thousand Doors".
I thought this book was imaginative, tense, and absolutely threatening to the delicate veil that archeology holds over what its ruined. For those who are wondering about the dog:
Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction and Animal death