Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

24 reviews

whiterabbitslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

Just been bullied by this book for 3 days straight and you know I’m gonna read it again!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Genocide, and Gore

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The book starting out in second person threw me for a loop, but it was such a great tool to explore, how traumatised Harrow is and her in general. Also the POV switching to third person in the flashbacks makes it really easy to distinguish the different time lines.

Also, when it was revealed, that it was Gideon talking to Harrow this whole time with the "you", that was just an amayng plot twist!

Harrow's paranoia really set the darker tone of this book and it worked so well with the lonely fortress in deep space setting and makes the mystery just so much more mysterious.
I also really enjoyed, that this book spent more time with characters, that were just mentioned in the first book like Abigail and Magnus. And all the new characters are super interesting, too. Just like in the first book the relationships among them are written so well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Gun violence and Terminal illness

smileyblue's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Body horror, Terminal illness, Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Gaslighting

cal_the_queer's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

Minor: Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Cancer

kjoli's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

redkeys's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense slow-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

With the focus of the book being on Harrow, this one was harder for me to get through; the first two thirds are emotionally dense. Still, a very good read, and Moira Quirk's voice acting in the narration is phenomenal. I'm definitely going to need to go back and listen to these again!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Genocide, and Terminal illness

but like it's really good

jmcordero's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Torture, Terminal illness, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Vomit, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Medical trauma, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Genocide

ha1yan's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-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

5.0

This book was such an amazing follow-up to Gideon the Ninth. We've got double the millennial meme references (none House left grief!?), even more terrifying space necromancy, and DRAMA. It has one of the weirdest perspectives and plots I've ever read and I LOVED IT. Harrow the Ninth is the ONLY way bury your gays should be used in media, actually.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, and Terminal illness

Minor: Ableism and Genocide

Hallucinations, manipulation and gaslighting, unreality

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I was so confused as to what was happening for like 75% of this book. I suspected, but I was still confuzzled. I didn't laugh out loud as much as I did in Gideon, but I did very much enjoy following Harrowhark's journey. The second person perspective was fascinating, I've very rarely encountered it previously. And then the last 25% happened and WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM so good. I cannot reveal more without spoilers, but everything is wrapped up for the most part, except for one major mystery that I assume will be the lead-in to the next book. Also, the narrator continues to be a superstar in the audio version, and I will certainly listen to Alecto on audio. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

bi_blue's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Death, Blood, Violence, Vomit, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Genocide, Self harm, and Child abuse

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness