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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

22 reviews

sonaea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal death, Genocide, and Grief

handful_of_frogs's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional tense

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

3.75

While I enjoyed the characters and the ways that the author explored gender expressions and identities in this book, the plot lost me several times. I'm learning it's hard for me to pay attention to narratives that revolve around war. I feel like I would have liked this more as a television show or movie. Some aspects were hard to visualize for me. Not sure if I'll read the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Trafficking, Violence, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Excrement, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, and Vomit

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

nebulasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, and Violence

giuliaprim's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-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: Child death, Genocide, and Violence

Moderate: War and Domestic abuse

yavin_iv's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Ableism, and War

Moderate: Slavery, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Alcohol, Abandonment, Cursing, and Homophobia

Minor: Child death

rowanasm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Racism, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexism, Medical trauma, Death, Child death, Animal cruelty, War, Alcohol, Outing, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Grief, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Blood

snowydaze's review against another edition

challenging hopeful mysterious medium-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

3.0

The changing povs took a while to get into and I just couldn't get into it. The ending also felt rushed after the build up of the rest of the novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Torture, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, Medical content, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual content

lattefairies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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? No

5.0

Representation: gender queer mc's, sapphic relationship, amputee, closeted gay character, achilles x patroclus type of pining, lesbian woman.  

This book.... left me speechless. Apart from the perfect gender queer rep we got from zhu's character, there's the perfect most adorable sapphic relationship I've ever read. Ma is the cutest and I loved how much zhu was teasing her the whole book. Zhu had such a great personality and their fricken brain was so powerful I'm in awe. They had such nice chemistry too 😭 

Then to elaborate, the achilles x patroclus yearning isn't for them but for another pair of characters, who frustrated the hell out of me but I will forever protect ouyang. He doesn't deserve whatever it is fate has prepared for him (if I'm right abt it) 

Now we all love a good historical fiction book dont we? And then have it sprinkled with fantasy and mythology and a lot of war politics and you get my favourite type of book. This book right here sits on the same table as the poppy war. Its also brutal and graphic and doesn't shy away from the horridness of war or men. 

I highly recommend simply for the representation but you need to know that this book lacked absolutely nothing in terms of a historical war fantasy. Please read it and come yell at me, thank you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

aardwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

An amazing execution of bright, sharp lives, a mess of protagonists who are none of them remotely good but are painfully themselves, drawn out dooms and tragedies that are no less inevitable for foresight. I love all these terrible people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, War, and Violence