Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

40 reviews

juksu's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Moderate: Death, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Minor: Torture and Self harm

boglord's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Vomit, Grief, Medical content, Suicide, and Deportation

Minor: Death of parent, Confinement, Blood, Genocide, and Panic attacks/disorders

alynclifford's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexual assault

johnnyboy836's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Death, Deportation, Blood, Gore, Colonisation, Violence, Suicide, Slavery, Murder, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

kaibee168's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring fast-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

Loved this book and made me appreciate octopuses more. I would love a sequel and am happy I read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

I think people who love animals, the ocean, biology or science as a whole will love this book! I loved the seamless weaving of questions of consciousness and what it means to be human within the context of other species and AI.

quinnyquinnquinn's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Confinement, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Classism, Police brutality, and Animal death

Minor: Suicide and Mental illness

markarubin's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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

This was really a great read. Very “high brow” sci-fi while pulling influence from other greats in the genre like Blade Runner and Arrival (but with octopuses!). Very thought-provoking and starts conversations around types of consciousness, language, culture, what it means to be a human, the future of AI and more. Only small knock on it is that it perhaps went on a bit long and one of the main characters served really no purpose. And if you’re looking for something plot-driven this isn’t it, but what’s here is gold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Slavery

avilareads's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Slavery, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Self harm

random19379's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Genocide, and Body horror

geekmom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

Utterly original — and the philosophical stance about communication and shared meaning allowed this book to transcend all of the tired sf/f language tropes. I’m going to be thinking about this book for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Slavery