Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

107 reviews

lifeinsherds's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

The ONLY reason this doesn't have a full 5 stars for me is because there are a LOT of characters in this book. But Muir has a list at the beginning which character belongs to which house. I absolutely sprinted through the last like 80 pages.

Tamsyn Muir has SUCH a strong voice as Gideon. She is loyal and flawed and weak and strong. UGH. this may be a book I wish I could read for the first time again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Death, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Chronic illness

knightreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Cancer, Vomit, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Confinement, War, and Cannibalism

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Terminal illness, Grief, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide, Slavery, and Medical content

insideunder's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Medical content, Cannibalism, Classism, Slavery, Religious bigotry, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Infertility and War

winged's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Cancer, Blood, and Cannibalism

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, Child abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Infertility

marysunburn's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

3.75

I HATED Harrowhark when I started, and I am so glad she managed to change my mind. 
The worldbuilding was heavy and at times confusing, but the dialogue was engaging and refined and the fight scenes were cinematic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Classism, Death, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, Terminal illness, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Chronic illness, Gore, Medical content, Grief, and Religious bigotry

goldaerin's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Grief, Medical content, Blood, Child death, Murder, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

Minor: Medical content

valorelei's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

one of my favorite books ever. i’m convinced tam muir is a dissociative system at this point (me too)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, War, Chronic illness, Body horror, Gore, and Medical content

squirrelbaffler's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

Fun Gothic fantasy with high highs, but definitely some awkward language. The author does a good job of conveying the MC's experience to the reader, but there's a good chunk of time where the Mc is bored out of her skull, and that chunk drags. Still, it's worth pushing through for all the dominoes to fall, ending quite strong. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Violence, Suicide, Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Death