Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

4 reviews

swordrager's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Addiction, Confinement, Terminal illness, War, Child death, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcohol, Classism, Genocide, Excrement, Violence, Cancer, Gun violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Medical content, Gore, Abandonment, Self harm, Grief, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcoholism, Body horror, Colonisation, Deportation, Blood, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

remescient's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

This series is so good. Honestly the first book isn't even the best one, but it's still so good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Murder, Death, Cursing, War, Confinement, Violence, Classism, and Body horror

booksthatburn's review against another edition

Not my thing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Medical trauma, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Excrement, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

ekcd_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

This is definitely going on the re-read list. Probably on a list of books to buy, which is meaningful considering I’m broke.


I read the book after watching the first episode of the show and fell in love so hard I don’t think I can be impartial about evaluating the books good-ness.

Deep characters, realistic dialogue, deep lore and world building. 

A note on the writing of relationships … 

It’s the one and only sci fi book I have ever read, written by a man (men?) that had a sex scene WITHOUT bodily objectifying women. Without bodily objectifying anyone. Such a minor plot point, less than two pages, but for me it reframed my expectations of the book. No weird porny misogyny. Just an earnest description of what it means to share intimacy 

One aggravating, potential plot hole (hence the half star deduction) 

Why the fuck wouldn’t they just crash Eros into the sun as planned? It’s great for the plot to have it land on Venus but it was so out of character and out of dynamic 

I’m not mad though, because I would have hated for this to only be one book. But I hope they get their shit together on the next one tbh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Excrement, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Body horror, Death, War, Cursing, Gore, and Gun violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Drug use, Racism, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Cancer, Sexual assault, Torture, Alcohol, and Suicide attempt