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abookwormspov'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? No
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, War, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Murder, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
ellornaslibrary's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Suicide, Grief, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Suicide attempt
I'm sure there might be others I missed. . . I'll try to update them when I remember, but this book starts off with a warning about a completed suicide so please, please, please keep that in mind.vigil'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
4.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Murder, and Suicide
mondays'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
3.5
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Murder, Gore, Grief, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Violence
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 foodentomonkey's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Torture, Murder, Kidnapping, Gore, Death, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement
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.