Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

157 reviews

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.

---

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

---

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.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, and Gore

foxcrofty's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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 sold to me as lesbian necromancers explore a haunted palace in space and honestly, it delivered. It's funny, witty, uniquely written all while being dark and tense and mysterious. It's refreshing to see a very serious plot and characters in serious situations while they don't take themselves too seriously. And honestly, it was made to read too many actual internet memes embedded in the text. I both loved and hated it. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Blood

toorsdenote's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad fast-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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful 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? No

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War

panthalassa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, War, and Classism

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Colonisation, and Classism

littlebutton's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This one was hard to rate. It sucked me in—I stayed up until about 2AM finishing it and really couldn’t put it down. But the ending really did not sit well with me. I think my opinion on it would vary wildly based on how it’s handled in the second book, but I haven’t been able to talk to anyone to ask about that. I will say, it would’ve helped me a lot to have a trigger warning on this book for abuse, and that the victim hasn’t disentangled herself from her abuser. 

Basically, it really bothered me that Gideon sacrificed herself for Harrow at the end, after their dynamic has been established as super abusive for a very long time. I think it was really well done, but as someone with a history of family abuse, it set my teeth on edge. If the next book deals with that sacrifice and their dynamic in a critical way, then I think I would probably really enjoy it. Otherwise, I think it would just be even more upsetting for me personally.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse

rtaire's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail