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lonelylooper's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Blood, Death, Grief, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Torture, Dysphoria, Classism, and Child death
therainbowshelf's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Gore, Colonisation, Blood, Violence, Xenophobia, Torture, Murder, Medical trauma, Death, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Police brutality and War
People as foodlaurareads87's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
<i>Content warnings:</i> suicide on page (drowning), suicidal thoughts, death, violence, mention of a past suicide attempt, sexism, colonization, medical content, grief, blood, consensual cutting/scarification in a sexual context
Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Suicide attempt and Medical content
Minor: Colonisation and Sexism
maeverose's review against another edition
3.75
what I liked:
-the exploration of oppressive and unfair systems
-I really liked the parts about identity (specifically these quotes: “-æ has gone by “Anima” for longer than æ ever used ær birth name. Does ær terminal name apply only to the Anima that exists after becoming a node, or does the name encompass even the world before that transition?”
“We will never know who someone else truly is. We are still bounded by the limits of the material world. We still cannot enter someone’s soul to navigate the interior sea of the mind. But we can take a moment, a story, that illuminates their spirit, if only one facet. Yet that is what makes life the brilliant gem that it is: the collection of all those facets into a prism. A lens.”)
-also I’m obsessed with this cover.
some (very subjective) dislikes:
— I don’t care about sports at all so I skimmed most of ‘This Form I Hold Now’, but I liked the rest of that story (and how it connected to the third story)
Graphic: Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide
Moderate: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Blood, Gore, Sexual content, Medical content, and Animal death
Minor: Cursing, Excrement, and Murder
Needles, drowning. Self harm: a scene of someone cutting their palm, graphic depictions of foot binding, and a knife play scene. In the latter the person being cut has very explicit thoughts about the desire to be cut. Gore: there are two scenes with gore in them that I can think of. The first is in ‘A Death Made Manifold’, that one is relatively minor imo. The second is in ‘As Dark As Hunger’, which is bordering on graphic. It more so describes graphic injuries than actual guts (though there is brief mention of that too, both fish and… human-esque), but it’s still uncomfortable to read.aardwyrm's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death, and Abandonment