Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

153 reviews

gmalmquist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

imogenlj's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

idun_aurora's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

Honestly, when my friend sold this book to me as "lesbian necromancers in space", I already knew it was going to my list of Best Books Ever. I was not disappointed! I laughed, I cried, both at the same time. The language is snappy and sassy, and the characters are well-written to the point they feel more real than some real-life people. Will definitely read again, and again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

nikenacs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Me, reading act 1 through 3: oh dang what a great book! Snarky himbo lesbian narrator, vibrant side characters, amazing dense worldbuilding, some murder mysteries, skeletons galore, this is so enjoyable, I see why this gets recommended so much! :) 

Me reading acts 4 and 5: I am in pieces on the floor. I am a broken husk of a person.

This gave me the beautiful Enemies to Power Couple I was so desperately craving, and then immediately yanked out of my small gay hands. The pool scene put the dagger in my heart, and the final fighting scenes pushed it through. I have not loved a protagonist as much as I loved Gideon, and a relationship as much as Gideon & Harrow, in a long time, and now she's DEAD?? Fuck this.

 10 out of 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

askjeaves's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I wanted to love this book. But the writing was so dense, and many of the characters were hard to relate to--either terrible people, or good people who were doing terrible things, or just kind of irritating. My favorite characters were relegated to the sidelines and didn't get much time to develop. The romantic relationship that I think I as a queer reader was supposed to be invested in was fraught with manipulation and was ultimately very unhealthy. 

The premise was ultimately very cool, even if some of the book's cooler worldbuilding and lore were obscured by purple prose and needlessly clinical vocabulary. Knowing that the second book is told from the perspective of Harrow (who is particularly pretentious and manipulative) and is supposedly even more confusing at times means I probably won't continue the series.

Also, holy body horror batman! A lot of the visual descriptions reminded me of Annihilation. You've been warned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

nalu_oops's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

millah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted 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

5.0

This book was nothing less than amazing. Why haven't I picked it up before? Well, I guess I didn't know I needed a sci-fi/ fantasy with necromancy, sword fights, sickening gore, terrifying horrors and deliciously dark humour. I did need it. 

The book is filled with important details, a wide range of characters, surprising twists, turns and hidden gems, and my ADHD brain forced me to to stop up at times and re-read certain parts, but that's not a complaint. I'm often an impatient reader, so the fact that I'm invested enough to go back and re-read earlier patagraphs, is probably one of the best compliments I can give an author.

What more can I say? I loved this book. So good. Now, I'm diving into the next one in the series. I have no idea what will happen next, but I am certain that it will hurt, confuse me and amaze me. Can't wait.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, and Abandonment

realizedcreation's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

farmchick's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• 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

4.0

Hard to follow, but had a great time the whole way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, and Gore